A photo gallery of images from the cross-country national team camps held in Soldier Hollow and Park City, Utah, last month, mostly of the U.S. Ski Team and its development contingent.
Jesse Cockney just earned World Cup starts for period I with the Canadian national team. After a stint in Quebec City, Cockney moved back to Canmore - where he has lived since age seven - and says he has felt a big improvement in his fitness.
A silver medalist at 2016 Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway, 18-year-old Ben Loomis was named this year to the U.S. National Team for nordic combined.
Who says work and play can't be mixed? Team Hardwood Head Coach Ron Howden shares a friendly hockey workout, played on rollerskis, that includes an agility drills warmup followed by a classic game of puck-chasing.
22-year-old Sarah Beaudry scored her first World Cup points last season. The Canadian biathlete is quickly becoming a contributing member of the senior national team.
Kikkan Randall is back! Logging hours with her APU teammates in Anchorage and with the U.S. Ski Team at camps, the three-time Sprint Cup winner is looking forward to packing her Aeropress and heading back to the World Cup after a season off last year while pregnant with her son, Breck.
Having joined the SMST2 Elite Team this year as well as enrolling at Dartmouth College, Kern has made some changes and is looking forward to another big year. "I think there isn’t one specific area where I have seen improvement over the past few months, but actually in every area," she wrote.
Kershaw tackled our "17 Questions" from a training camp in Utah. After training around Oslo this season, he thinks that Martin Johnsrud Sundby will still be the man to beat when the World Cup starts: "he's a beast."
World Championships bronze medalist Christian Gow imagines biathlon in a perfect universe like this: "I would make it so that doping didn’t exist and we could all participate on an even playing field."
Between a rafting trip on the Snake River and working on his jumps with a new coach from Austria, Ben Berend also got in lots of nordic combined competition this summer: he podiumed at U.S. Nationals and competed in Europe in the Grand Prix. Bernend will start the season on the World Cup for the first time this year.
In 2016, Maya MacIsaac-Jones got her first World Cup top-30 in the Gatineau sprint stage of the Ski Tour Canada. She'll start this season on the World Cup, but is shooting for excellence at U23 World Championships in Utah later in the year - fueled by pre-race Harry Potter reading.
After her first SuperTour podium and junior national titles last season, Sugar Bowl Academy's Hannah Halvorsen snagged a U.S. Ski Team nomination. Now she's making the most of her first training season without school.
An eight-year member of the Norwegian national team, Øystein Pettersen insists: "There are sides of Norwegian cross-country skiing that are not so positive. Eating disorders, overtraining, stress, pressure, the equipment arms race and much more. But doping, this is not part of the Norwegian cross-country sport."
Canada's famous Frozen Thunder officially opened Saturday after the Canmore Nordic Centre dumped an estimated 400 truckloads of snow onto its 1.3-kilometer loop in Canmore, Alberta. By Sunday's end, the loop should be roughly 2 k.
Nordic has upstaged tubing in North Creek, N.Y., where a state-operated alpine area has made FIS-homologated, cross-country ski trails a priority. Along with 2.5 k and 3.3 k race loops, the Ski Bowl also has snowmaking, lights, and coming soon, Wi-Fi.
The Putney School, an independent, coeducational boarding and day high school in Putney, Vt., is looking for a nordic ski coach for this season. Dates are Monday, November 28 - December 15 and January 3 - March 3.
The ASC Training Center, a non-profit organization located on Donner Summit, Calif., is seeking a Biathlon/Nordic Development Coach to join its coaching staff.
Soldier Hollow is seeking to hire a year-round Head Coach to oversee its club program, which serves youth skiers in Midway & Heber Valley, Utah. The position involves overseeing the skiing program, instruction & support of coaches at all levels, offering year-round coaching and support to all Comp Team athletes.
The Leavenworth Winter Sports Club is seeking a Youth Program Director and Head Nordic Coach to design and coordinate recreational-level programs for kindergarten through high school age skiers and coach competitive Nordic racers.
On Friday, the FIS Cross Country Committee passed a new rule requiring that classic pole lengths not exceed 83 percent of an athlete's height. "The rule is intended to keep future athletes from double poling races (and micro-skating) with poles that are close to the head-height limit," explains U.S. head coach Chris Grover, chairman of the FIS Subcommittee for World & Continental Cups.