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Christina Kouros of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, a CEHS Sophomore and member of the Cape Nordic Team, recently made history as the first Eastern High School Championship competitor to compete in the adaptive sit ski event. The EHSC Championships were held at Black Mountain in Rumford, Maine earlier this month and featured 48 person teams from New England. Kourus has competed in every high school ski meet throughout the season, and been an inspiration to her entire team....

Sun Valley Notes: Hamilton’s Break, Elliott’s Classic Breakthrough, and $$$

Off days are good for any number of things: big breakfasts, easy ski sessions, and watching NASCAR on TV. (Yeah, it’s been a slow afternoon at the FasterSkier regional headquarters). But they’re also good for catching up on all the things we missed from the last few days. Below is a brief selection. –Simi Hamilton’s dominating performance in the men’s prologue on Tuesday was a demonstration of what a well-trained athlete can do in a...

Trying to dig a little deeper than the Harvey-Kalla group, I've come up with a short list of some young(ish) skiers who I think are worth watching. Additions are welcome...MENWho: Finn Hågen Krogh (21 years old)Where: NorwayWhy: Capping a good season ...

Trying to dig a little deeper than the Harvey-Kalla group, I've come up with a short list of some young(ish) skiers who I think are worth watching. Additions are welcome...MENWho: Finn Hågen Krogh (21 years old)Where: NorwayWhy: Capping a good season ...

Trying to dig a little deeper than the Harvey-Kalla group, I've come up with a short list of some young(ish) skiers who I think are worth watching. Additions are welcome...MENWho: Finn Hågen Krogh (21 years old)Where: NorwayWhy: Capping a good season ...

Okay, I am going a little overboard here. I found a blog that I LOVE yesterday, and I feel like I need to share it with the entire world. By the end of my campaign to share the awesomeness I will have increased Lauren Fleshman’s blog readership by ...

Fairbanks Cross Country (FXC), the Nordic Ski Club Fairbanks’ (NSCF’s) year-round middle and high school junior racing program is seeking an assistant coach to work as part of a team of professional and volunteer coaches within the NSCF who are dedicated to helping Fairbanks’ skiers get the most out of their skiing experience. FXC is entering its sixth season and continues to grow and improve, engaging 43 athletes this past year who ranged from second-year...

Freeman Takes Mass Start Victory Despite Late Fade

Kikkan Randall was supposed to be the one to ski away from the field in Wednesday’s mass start classic race. In the women’s 10 k, she did. But so did her fellow U.S. Ski Team member Kris Freeman in the men’s 15 k—and in even more impressive fashion. After a mid-race cash sprint at the five kilometer-mark began splintering the field, Freeman flat-out broke it with a counterattack, distancing a five-strong chase group that included,...

Feet Sideline Stephen for Season Finale

The U.S. Ski Team’s Liz Stephen was in Sun Valley for the last few days, attending the national championship in the 30 k classic and the SuperTour Finals. But she wasn’t racing: instead, she was limited by a foot injury to cheering from the side of the trail. For the past month and a half, Stephen has been enduring severe pain while training and racing, stemming from inflammation in her heels near a bony enlargement...

Randall Wins Stage Two in Sun Valley, But Not Without a Fight

The way Kikkan Randall skied in Sun Valley on Wednesday, she still wasn’t beatable. But at the very least, she showed that she’s human. Randall had won Tuesday’s prologue, the opening stage of the 2011 SuperTour Finals, with a thoroughly dominating performance, putting more than 15 seconds into her nearest competitors in a seven-minute race. In Wednesday’s 10 k mass-start classic, Randall (APU/USST) was again impressive—at least, for nine kilometers. Heading out on her last...

Books that deal with cross-country skiing in general, and the American Birkebeiner specifically come along way too infrequently for my liking.  That being the case, it's pretty much our duty as cross-country skiers to pick up novels like these when they do appear on the shelves (especially when they're being put out by a traditional publisher as is the case with "Beyond Birkie Fever"). Fun and