Continental Cup

The Continental Cup Team will kick off the winter this season in West Yellowstone, MT with athletes arriving to town between November 14th and the 16th. With ten of eleven team members in attendance at this first weekend of Super Tour races, the opportunity for excellent early-season competition will be waiting. While some members of the team will travel back to college after the races in West, the rest of the team will remain on...

CXC Skiing and the organizers of the SuperTour at Telemark Resort have worked hard throughout the sumer and fall to make improvements to the Sprint competition scheduled for Jan. 23, 2008. The result of that effort is that the race, while still organized as a part of the event at the Telemark Resort, will actually be held in Duluth, MN. According to Race Director Scott Wilson, teams will still stay at Telemark and a charter...

PARK CITY, Utah (April 18) – Olympian Lars Flora (Anchorage, AK) swept all three individual men's titles – overall, distance and sprint champion(s) – in 2007's $130,000 Cross Country SuperTour while Kris Freeman (Andover, NH) won eight races to set a record for most SuperTour wins in his career (23). Team CXC teammates Caitlin Compton (Minneapolis) and Laura Valaas (Wenatchee, WA) dominated the women's side of the 24-race season. Compton won the overall and distance...

FIS is reporting that the 2006/2007 season was very challenging for most of the nine FIS Cross-Country Continental Cups around the world. In many cases, competitions had to be moved due to a lack of snow or the organizers delivered extraordinary efforts to stage the planned competitions despite the adverse weather circumstances. Compliments go to all the organizing teams for their valuable efforts and flexibility as well as to the respective Continental Cup coordinators for...

The US Long Distance Nationals (aka Spring Series) brought to an end another season of SuperTour racing in the United States. Here are your 2007 SuperTour Champions: Lars Flora (Overall, Sprint and Distance Champion) Kristina Strandberg (North America FIS Marathon Cup Champion) Kris Freeman, with two victories in Maine this past week, now holds the record for the most career SuperTour wins with 23 victories. Complete SuperTour rankings and points from each race:

Heavy snowfalls and cold weather have made for excellent conditions for the U.S. Cross Country Championships/SuperTour Finals in Presque Isle. Program for the U.S. Cross Country Championships/SuperTour Finals: Mar. 28 – Exhibition Team Sprint F Mar. 30 – 15/30km Pursuit April 1 – 30/50km F mass-start  Below are the current standings of the SuperTour and FIS North American Marathon Cup, heading into the U.S. Cross Country Championships/SuperTour Finals. Men's Overall: 1. Lars Flora (USA)...

Taz Mannix (APUNSC/US Ski Team) was victorious a 15km skate mass start Europa Cup race Sunday Feb 18 in Planica, Slovenia. This is Taz's first Europa Cup win. Second place was Coraline Hugue (FRA), and third place was Marian Piller (ITA). Morgan Aritola (US Ski Team/Sun Valley) placed 20th. The men's 30km skate mass start was won by Marco Fiorentini (ITA), second Benjamin Seifert (GER), and third David Hofer (ITA). No US racers started the...

Smullin withstood both a course considered to be among the most demanding and a late push from 2006 elite division winner Zack Simons and hung on for the slim victory – his first ever on the Super Tour. Smullin finished in 1 hour, 11 minutes, 41.45 seconds. Full Story: http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20070211/NEWS/102110065 Profile on women's winner Kristina Strandberg: http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20070210/SPORTS/102100049/-1/rss01

A hardcore group of 800 skiers made their way to the start line for the 2007 City of Lakes Loppet. Blue sky and sunshine reflected upon a well prepared course, but frigid temperatures also made it to the party. 12, 3, 21, 36, and 3 were all numbers mentioned throughout the weekend. There was no need to specify if it was above or below zero, as temperatures never climbed above zero for the weekend. Saturday’s...

Press Release Aspen, CO – Unprecedented. Landmark. Historic. Just a few of the words used to describe the new Owl Creek Chase presented by Rocky Mountain Nordic. The organizers of one of the premier Nordic events in Colorado are planning something that’s never been done, a combination of major events to create a unique “Super Event”, where national level elite racers will tackle the same course as citizen racers, top juniors and recreational skiers attracted...

SuperTour Standings: Men's Overall 1. Lars Flora (USA) – 471 points 2. Kris Freeman (USA) – 306 points 3. Garrott Kuzy (USA) – 263 points Men's Sprint 1. Lars Flora (USA) – 192 points 2. Eric Strabel (USA) – 187 points 3. Anders Haugen (USA) – 162 points Men's Distance 1. Lars Flora (USA) – 279 points 2. Kris Freeman (USA) – 210 points 3. Garrott Kuzy (USA) – 165 points Women's Overall 1. Caitlin...

Racer’s were greeted at bib pickup this morning with a jumbo screen wire to wire video of the A final at the Estonian World Cup. Seeing Koos, Newell and Cook doing so well had everyone fired up and excited to get after it. Temperatures were in the low single digits but the sun was shining for the 10/15km Classical interval start CXC Super Tour at Telemark Resort. The course today was shortened due to thin...

There were no surprises today as Overall Super Tour leaders: Caitlin Compton and Lars Flora again set the times to beat in the 5/10km Freestyle. Both Compton and Flora are members of the US 2007 World Championships Team to compete in Sapporo, Japan in mid February. Caitlin Compton (CXC) distanced the rest of the field by 17.8 seconds, to win in a time of 12:10.3. The strong Women of NMU topped the collegiate field, taking...

A small but competitive field gathered at Telemark Resort on Wednesday for the CXC Super Tour Freestyle Sprint. The course wound up and down the base of Mt. Telemark on a mixture of natural and manmade snow with the top eight qualifying for the heats. Laura Valaas (CXC), the Super Tour Sprint Leader won her ninth Super Tour title of the season on her home course. Amazingly the results of the heats looked to be...

Sunday's Free Technique race at Mt Itasca wrapped up a weekend of moderate weather and hot racing on perfectly groomed trails. Caitlin Compton (CXC) won her sixth Super Tour title this season in Sunday’s 10km individual start Freestyle. Compton put 10 seconds on the field in the first 2.5km and extended her lead to win by 35 seconds, with a time of 25:48.7. Yesterday’s Classic winner Kate Whitcomb (FSx) finished second in 26:23.7. Kate Underwood...

Flora and Whitcomb Win Mt. Itasca Super Tour By Brian Gregg Lars Flora of Subaru Factory Team led today’s 10km interval start classical race from start to finish in 24:37.6, leading every split on the 4 X 2.5km course, nearly 40 seconds over second place Zach Violett of FsX. University of Alaska Fairbanks skiers Marius Korthauer of Germany and Vahur Teppan of Estonia tied for 3rd place. The two college skiers were over a minute...

With 75 meters to go Eric Strabel of APU jumped from 3rd place to pass Kevin Hochtl of Rossignol and narrowly edge Colin Rodgers of FsX who led nearly the entire race to the line. Bryan Cook of CXC finished 4th. Strabel’s win today will give him the leader’s jersey in the Super Tour Sprint and Central Grand Prix competition. Laura Valaas of CXC continued her dominance in Super Tour sprints leading from start to...