- The Norwegian team gave the home crowd a show as the nation won the nordic combined team event at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival Saturday, the biggest sporting event in Norway.  The US went with its three individual Olympic medalists, adding 18 year old Nick Hendrickson as the fourth for the rare World Cup team event.
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 - The FIS Nordic World Cup Holmenkollen in Oslo, Norway, will be held on 13rd-14th March 2010. Most of the ultra-modern new Holmenkollen National Arena will be in use for the f...
 - The 2010 U.S. Olympic Nordic Combined Team takes the helm of the Armed Forces Entertainment  “Olympic Heavy Medal Tour,” bringing for the very first time, four Olympic m... 3 Comments
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 - As Billy Demong and Johnny Spillane strode triumphantly to the podium for the flower ceremony after today’s nordic combined competition, a parade of sullen-looking European... 2 Comments
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 - The US Nordic Combined team will paying overweight on their flight back to Park City.  A historic day doubled their Vancouver medal haul, giving them nearly nine pounds of h... 11 Comments
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 - This one was big time. After its first-ever Olympic medal last week, the U.S. Nordic Combined Team got the full treatment Tuesday, as sports journalists converged in hordes ... 3 Comments
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 - The two skiers swept around the large curve down into the stadium, Billy Demong of the USA in the lead, Austrian Mario Stecher right on his heels, the gold medal waiting, jus... 1 Comment
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 - After being selected as the fourth member of the U.S. nordic combined team's relay squad, the pressure was all on Brett Camerota's shoulders this morning as he took to the to... 10 Comments
 - There are few opportunities to list American Nordic skiers as gold medal favorites, but the US Nordic Combined squad has changed that over the last few years.  And in today'...
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 - After Johnny Spillane won a silver medal Sunday afternoon—the first of any color in U.S. nordic combined history—his former coach, Tom Steitz, voiced the rhetorical quest... 3 Comments
 - The first of two individual Olympic nordic combined competitions will be held today at Whistler Olympic Park.  The United States is in the unique position of having three me...
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 - With 13 trips to the Olympics between them, 2010 U.S. Olympic Nordic Combined Team members Billy Demong, Todd Lodwick and Johnny Spillane are far from star struck at these Ga...
 - Three World Champions were among five athletes announced Thursday by the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) to compete on the 2010 Olympic Nordic Combined Ski Team. Bi...
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 - In Sunday’s World Cup in Chaux-Neuve, France—his last before heading home to the U.S.—Demong finished just outside the top three, as Mario Stecher (AUS) caught and pass...
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 - The US Nordic Combined turned in another stellar performance, edging closer to sweeping the World Cup podium, placing three skiers in the top six this morning.
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 - Demong comments on the race which saw him again topping the World Cup podium: skiing under hovering helicopters, team race tactics, and the importance of a universal grind o...
 - Billy Demong and Todd Lodwick went 1-2 in a brutally hard Nordic Combined World Cup on the Tour de Ski Final Climb course. 2 Comments
 - The U.S. Ski Team's three world champions played a key role in a back-and-forth battle Saturday in the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup in Predazzo. But in the end, it was Austr...
 - Johnny Spillane blew away the cross country field Sunday, finishing over 30 seconds ahead of the pack to take the first World Cup win of his career in Oberhof.  Billy Demong...
 - Johnny Spillane narrowly missed out on his sixth career World Cup podium Saturday in Oberhof, Germany, falling from second to fourth with 200 meters to go after he led at 8.6...