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The 2004 Chevrolet U.S. Cross-Country Championships will start tomorrow January 3rd from the Broomhall Stadium at famous Black Mountain of Maine in Rumford. The Organizer of the Championship is again Chisholm Ski Club, the second oldest ski club in the United States – founded in 1917.
Chisholm Ski Club is located at Black Mountain of Maine Ski Area in Rumford, Maine. Over the years the Club has hosted several world class Nordic skiing events, including the 1950 World Championships, 1976 NCAA Cross Country Skiing Championships, 1991 National Biathlon Championships, 1993 US Cross Country Skiing Championships, 1993 U.S. Masters Cross Country Skiing Championships, 1996 National Junior Olympics, 1996 Chevy Truck U.S. Nationals, the 1999 NCAA Cross Country Skiing Championship, and the 1999 and 2002 Chevrolet US Cross-Country Championships. Black Mountain is also the site of Chisholm Ski Club's annual Winter Carnival, a traditional event that dates back to 1924.
 Broomhall, who just turned 84 years on Dec 3rd, is the driving force and designer of the Black Mountain competition venue. He is still a very active Chief of Competition for the Championships, and his legend grows every year. Chummy was a U.S. Ski Team member from 1947 to 1954 and competed in the 1948 and 1952 Winter Olympics. For the 1960 Olympic in Squaw Valley he temporarily moved to California to help design and manage the Olympic Cross-Country competitions. It was there that he was the first organizer to start grooming trails with snowmobiles and attachments based on farming equipment – before then the competition trail had just been skied in. At the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid he was again Chief of Competition together with another National Cross-Country legend, Al Merrill.</p>
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