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Matthew Briggs

Liebsch and Owen Take Mora Vasaloppet Victory

The Mora Vasaloppet is not only a prestigious ski marathon featuring some of the nations top racers, it has a very interesting prize.  The race offers a free trip to Sweden to the overall winners to contest next year’s Swedish Vasaloppet (or $1,000). Over 350 racers lined up for this year’s Mora Vasaloppet with that trip in their sites, but after 58k of racing, it was Matt Liebsch and Kristina Owen who claimed the victories...

Last year I was a senior Economics major at Colby College.  This meant that I had to do a final project that involved a lot of my own research and said something new about what I found.  I decided to do my project on skiing.  Specifically, I wanted to see if there was any relationship between the quantifiable factors that describe a given cross-country ski center and the price that that ski center charges.  Without...