Sprinters Andy Newell (Shaftsbury, VT), who produced the first U.S. World Cup podium in over two decades last winter, and Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, AK), who produced the alltime best U.S. women's Olympic cross country finish, are among 14 athletes named to the 2007 U.S. Cross Country Ski Team.
U.S. Nordic Director Luke Bodensteiner said the Ski Team – the largest since 11 athletes were named for the 1998 Olympic season – also includes seven other 2006 Olympians. There are seven men and seven women on the squad.
![](http://images.fasterskier.com/oldsitearchive/upload/060912olympic_prelim.jpg width=433 height=285 border=1><BR><font size=1 face=verdana>Andrew Newell at the Olympics</font></center><BR></p>
<p>Newell posted the best U.S. men's Olympic sprint result in Italy, finishing 14th and went on to finish third in the first World Cup cross country race in China last March. It was the first top-3 finish by a U.S. skier since March 1983 when Vermonters Tim Caldwell and Bill Koch finished 2-3 in a World Cup race in Anchorage, Alaska. </p>
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