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Under 23 Questions with Mathilde Petitjean

In an effort to showcase the North Americans competing at this week’s International Ski Federation (FIS) 2017 USANA Nordic Junior World Championships and U23 Cross Country World Championships at Soldier Hollow in Midway, Utah, we asked those qualifying athletes several questions about themselves — actually, we had them fill in the blanks. Here we have 22-year-old Mathilde Petitjean, of the Pierre-Harvey National Training Centre, who’s representing Togo at her second U23 Worlds. On Tuesday, she finished 36th in...

First American to Win Ski Mountaineering Gold, Silitch Preps for Winter

In late May, weeks after Nina Silitch finished her last race of the season, loads of her ski-mountaineering equipment still occupied more than half the space in her bedroom. Her husband, Michael, couldn’t understand why, after six months on the World Cup and international circuit, she wasn’t ready put it away. At 39, Silitch was coming off a career-best season in most respects – she became the first American to earn World Cup gold in...