Articles from March 2011
Lightfoot competing in Britain's trademark Union Jack race suits. Photo courtesy of Amanda Lightfoot.
 - Is the 24-year-old strawberry blonde a female answer to Andrew Musgrave? FasterSkier caught up with the newly successful British biathlete and talked about year-round traveling and those funny race suits. 1 Comment
The start of the women's F3 category 15K skate race on March 5 showed promise of a fierce fight for the medals. (Photo: Inge Scheve)
 - Long-distance classic races on March 11 wrapped up the racing action for the 2011 World Masters. The week was filled with impressive race performances and thrilling finishes ...
One of the leading waves of girl's for Friday's 5 k race during the TD Banknorth J2 Festival
 - This weekend Gunstock Nordic Association (GNA) played host to the 2011 TD Bank J2 Championships, an annual event where top skiers aged 14-15 from Maine, Massachusetts, New Ha...
The trails are gorgeous in Craftsbury!
 - With two feet of base and an incredibly competitive slate of racers already signed up, the three-day Craftsbury Spring Tour is shaping up to be a weekend of excellent skiing!
Sara Studebaker (USA) en route to tagging off in eighth place after the first leg of the relay. Photo: nordicfocus.com courtesy of USBA.
 - Magdalena Neuner erased a deficit of more than a minute in the final leg of the 4 x 6 k relay at biathlon World Championships on Sunday. The U.S. team finished 14th, buoyed b...
 - The USSA SuperTour event scheduled for March 18th, 2011 at Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort has been canceled. 8 Comments
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 - Late last month, during the World Ski Championships in Oslo, a handful of competitors were taking part in a test event for a new World Cup format in Poland, which features a ... 8 Comments
 - Marit Bjoergen may have been down on Saturday, suffering her first distance defeat of the World Cup season, but she bounced right back up to claim the victory in the women’...
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 - In Lahti, Finland on Sunday, Emil Joensson raced to his fifth World Cup sprint victory in seven starts this season, with Eirik Brandsdal (NOR) in second and his teammate Paal...
 - Sovereign Lake's annual loppet became an international competition as Petr Pavol of the Czech Republic finished in first place. Renowned competitors such as Olympians Leslie ...
 - The first individual race of 2011 Canadian National Championships begins Sunday, March 13, and FasterSkier has your guide to the top Canadian men in action.
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 - Winter returned to Minneapolis in the form of temperatures in the low twenties, strong winds, and a trace of new snow.  The course was firm-to-icy and the tracks were filled... 1 Comment
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 - Kikkan Randall and Therese Johaug (NOR) entered the post-World Championship World Cups in Lahti from very different places, but the two women both enjoyed career days in the ... 3 Comments
 - Dario Cologna outsprinted Frenchmen Maurice Manificat and Vincent Vittoz for the win in the 20 k World Cup pursuit in Finland, while Canadian Ivan Babikov likely locked up a ... 1 Comment
 - The lone North American in the mass start, Leif Nordgren of the U.S., raced to a career-best 17th place at World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk today. 1 Comment
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 - The second and final day of nordic events - 15 and 20 k mass start races - were contested in the pouring rain yesterday and won by a pair of CU teammates on a single pair of ...
New England's Tyler Foulkes (Stratton Mountain School) captured his first Junior National title in the 5k freestyle race.  Photo: David J. Owen Photography
 - Going into the third day of Junior Olympic competition, Friday’s skate individual start, four athletes had a chance to sweep all individual events: Hamish McEwen (Cambridge...
The U.S. relay team: (L-R) Lowell Bailey, Jay Hakkinen, Tim Burke, Leif Nordgren. Photo: nordicfocus.com courtesy of USBA.
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