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Zanden McMullen’s Closing Argument
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Zanden McMullen’s Closing Argument

Matthew VoisinJanuary 16, 2026

This article was made possible through the generous support of our voluntary subscribers. If you value coverage like this, please support FasterSkier with a voluntary subscription. There is a particular kind of quiet that settles in before a decisive weekend—not the calm that follows certainty, but the stillness that comes when outcomes are no longer yours to predict. Zanden McMullen arrived in Oberhof, Germany, this week carrying that quiet with him. Period Three of the World...

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Governing Olympic Sport
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Governing Olympic Sport

Jim GalanesJanuary 14, 2026

This article was made possible through the generous support of our voluntary subscribers. If you value coverage like this, please support FasterSkier with a voluntary subscription. The Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act, passed in 1978 and amended several times (most notably in 1998 and 2020), is the statute that created the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and granted National Governing Bodies (NGBs) exclusive, monopolistic, authority over Olympic sports in the United States....

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US Ski Team Announces Period 3 Starts
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US Ski Team Announces Period 3 Starts

Chris GroverJanuary 14, 2026

Dear Cross Country Community,   We are pleased to announce the Team for Period 3 of the 2025-26 World Cup season: Oberhof Sprint F Men Zach Jayne                                Objective          25-26 Overall SuperTour Leader Ben Ogden                                Objective          4th 25-26 Sprint World Cup Jack Young                                Objective          21st 25-26 Sprint World Cup Gus Schumacher                       Objective          27th 25-26 Sprint World Cup JC Schoonmaker                        Objective          36th 25-26 Sprint World Cup Kevin Bolger                             Objective          40th 25-26 Sprint World Cup Zak Ketterson                          ...

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“You Can’t Live Nervous”
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“You Can’t Live Nervous”

Matthew VoisinDecember 22, 2025

Finals week has a way of compressing time. Days shrink into problem sets and exams; nights stretch just long enough to make sleep negotiable. When Jack Lange logged onto Zoom from Hanover in late November, he was finishing his senior fall at Dartmouth, a mechanical engineering major balancing equations while packing for a training block at Silver Star. The snow out west wasn’t cooperating. Races were being reformatted. Nothing felt settled. That uncertainty didn’t seem...

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US Ski Team Announces Team for Period 2 – Tour de Ski
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US Ski Team Announces Team for Period 2 – Tour de Ski

Chris GroverDecember 19, 2025

Dear Cross Country Community, We are pleased to announce the Team for Period 2 of the 2025-26 World Cup season – the Tour de Ski: 2025-26 Tour de Ski Men Hunter Wonders                       Objective          25-26 Overall SuperTour Leader Ben Ogden                                Objective          5th 25-26 Sprint World Cup Jack Young                                Objective          18th 25-26 Sprint World Cup Zak Ketterson                           Objective          22nd 25-26 Distance World Cup Gus Schumacher                       Objective          28th 25-26 Distance World Cup JC Schoonmaker                        Discretion         27th Davos Sprint...

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The U.S. Ski Team Star You Won’t See on Snow This Weekend
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The U.S. Ski Team Star You Won’t See on Snow This Weekend

Matthew VoisinDecember 4, 2025

On Friday afternoon, as World Cup sprinters snap into their skis in Trondheim and the SuperTour fields gather in Fairbanks, one of the United States’ most electrifying young Nordic athletes will step onto an entirely different stage. Stanford University, the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Women’s Soccer Tournament, is marching toward the College Cup—and at the center of it all is a player who, in just a matter of days, will also begin her...

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Novie McCabe’s Winding Trail to the Olympic-Season Start Line
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Novie McCabe’s Winding Trail to the Olympic-Season Start Line

Matthew VoisinDecember 3, 2025

When Novie McCabe spoke with FasterSkier early last month, she was looking out the window of her place in Anchorage, waiting for winter to finally take hold. “We’re patiently waiting on snow,” she said. “But today might be the day.“ Outside, the ground was still in its in-between phase—too brown for grooming, just white enough that fish-scale skis could work if you were stubborn and optimistic about it. Alaska in November often asks skiers to...

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The Road to Ruka: A Sunset Bus Ride into the World Cup Winter
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The Road to Ruka: A Sunset Bus Ride into the World Cup Winter

Matthew VoisinNovember 27, 2025

This coverage is made possible through the generous support of Marty and Kathy Hall and A Hall Mark of Excellence Award. To learn more about A Hall Mark of Excellence Award, or to learn how you can support FasterSkier’s coverage, please contact info@fasterskier.com. For six hours on Tuesday, the U.S. Cross-Country Ski Team watched Finland scroll past the windows of a northbound bus, the day’s thin slice of sunlight slanting low across the snow. The sun...

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Jack Young: Against the Template
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Jack Young: Against the Template

Matthew VoisinNovember 27, 2025

On the Wednesday before the World Cup season opens in Ruka, Jack Young sits in a small condo, looking out at over a foot of new snow that’s been drifting down all morning. The air is much warmer today than it was before he and the U.S. Ski Team loaded onto a six-plus hour bus ride yesterday — “Muonio was friggin’ cold,” he says — and the mood is calmer, quieter, the way he wants...

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The Hilltop Lesson: How Second Place at the NCAA Championship Became Hagenbuch’s Guiding Philosophy
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The Hilltop Lesson: How Second Place at the NCAA Championship Became Hagenbuch’s Guiding Philosophy

Matthew VoisinNovember 26, 2025

On a bright March afternoon at Dartmouth’s Oak Hill, with a soft and slow course under his skis and a band he himself had organized blasting in the stadium above, John Steel Hagenbuch approached the final climb where he learned something that would shape the early years of his career far more than any podium ever could. He had come into the NCAA Championships with the weight of a thousand private dreams — a home...

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Blueprinting Beliefs: Ben Ogden’s Mind, Mechanics, and the Engineering of a Community
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Blueprinting Beliefs: Ben Ogden’s Mind, Mechanics, and the Engineering of a Community

Matthew VoisinNovember 24, 2025

Somewhere over the Atlantic, on a red-eye to another winter in Europe, Ben Ogden opens his laptop and stares at a grid of digital joinery. Tiny posts, miniature knee braces, angled mortises — a small timber-frame sauna, scaled down to the dimensions of an airline tray table. He sketches in precise strokes, clicking through angles and offsets, rotating the model the way he rotates race courses in his head: looking for structure, looking for flow....

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Three Frames: Jessie Diggins and the Art of What Endures
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Three Frames: Jessie Diggins and the Art of What Endures

Matthew VoisinNovember 22, 2025

The Zoom room filled slowly, one journalist after another blinking into existence in a grid of small rectangles. Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Helsinki, Colorado, New York — not just the coordinates of U.S. skiing scattered across time zones, but also NPR, NBC, and European reporters, over 60 media outlets, all converging on a November morning. Jessie Diggins appeared in the largest box, glowing as she does all the way from Muonio, Finland, where she had arrived...

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The Last Lunge: Jessie Diggins to Retire at the End of this Olympic Season
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The Last Lunge: Jessie Diggins to Retire at the End of this Olympic Season

FasterSkierNovember 19, 2025

After 15 years on the World Cup circuit, three Olympic medals, seven World Championship medals, and a career that rewrote every line of the American cross-country skiing record book, Jessie Diggins has announced that the 2025–26 season will be her last. Beginning with the World Cup opener in Ruka on Nov. 28 and ending on home snow at the Stifel Lake Placid Finals in March, the most decorated U.S. cross-country skier in history will take...

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Holding Her Own: Rosie Brennan’s Quiet Mastery of Independence on the World Cup
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Holding Her Own: Rosie Brennan’s Quiet Mastery of Independence on the World Cup

Matthew VoisinNovember 18, 2025

The first flakes had finally settled on the branches behind Rosie Brennan’s window in Anchorage. “Yeah, finally,” she said, turning from the screen toward the light outside. “God, it was slow to come, but we are getting there.” Snow matters in November for any cross-country skier. Still, for Brennan—now entering her fifteenth season on the U.S. Ski Team—it has always represented something deeper: familiarity, grounding, the landscape she moves through on her own terms. Independence,...

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The Norwegian Experiment: Sophia Laukli’s Back-to-Basics Reboot
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The Norwegian Experiment: Sophia Laukli’s Back-to-Basics Reboot

Matthew VoisinNovember 17, 2025

By the time Sophia Laukli picks up the phone from Lillehammer, it’s raining again. “There is, like, a small 1k loop up at Sjusjøen,” she says, “but it’s… yeah, it’s, like, raining every day, so it’s not really great conditions.” On paper, Laukli is one of the most intriguing dual-sport athletes in endurance sport: a U.S. Ski Team member and Olympian who has also become a force in international trail running. In person—or over Zoom—she’s...

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The New JC Schoonmaker: Sharper, Calmer, and Ready for the Moment
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The New JC Schoonmaker: Sharper, Calmer, and Ready for the Moment

Matthew VoisinNovember 14, 2025

When JC Schoonmaker talks about his earliest memories of ski racing, he doesn’t begin with speed or snow conditions, or the particular magic of gliding across winter trails. He starts, instead, with raffles. “I just remember as a kid, there’d be raffles after every race that I would be so stoked for,” he says. “Trying to get a prize, like a new pair of gloves or a hat.” It is an unexpectedly tender snapshot of...

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The Secret Weapon Is Fun: Inside Kristen Bourne’s Collaborative Coaching on the U.S. Ski Team
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The Secret Weapon Is Fun: Inside Kristen Bourne’s Collaborative Coaching on the U.S. Ski Team

Matthew VoisinNovember 11, 2025

When we spoke, Kristen Bourne was sitting on the couch in her living room in Truckee, California, a small ski town she now calls home. Tibetan prayer flags hung loosely behind her, shifting gently in the morning light that poured through the window. The room felt warm and calm — the kind of quiet space that comes from someone who spends much of her year on the move. Bourne smiled easily as she spoke, her...

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Rooted in Vermont: Tabor Greenberg’s Steady Rise from the Mad River Valley to the U.S. Ski Team
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Rooted in Vermont: Tabor Greenberg’s Steady Rise from the Mad River Valley to the U.S. Ski Team

Matthew VoisinNovember 4, 2025

The hills above Moretown are the kind that teach you to move without thinking about it: long grades through maple and birch, a tangle of dirt roads, a thousand sneaky rollers perfect for running shoes or a classic stride. From the valley floor, you can see Sugarbush and Mad River Glen, their lifts still in October and their trails crisscrossed by hikers who’ll be skiers in a few short weeks. This is the terrain that...

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The Energy Equation: Julia Kern’s Formula for Olympic Success
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The Energy Equation: Julia Kern’s Formula for Olympic Success

Matthew VoisinOctober 31, 2025

On a late-October morning, Julia Kern sat in San Diego, sunlight spilling through the window after cradling her infant nephew. “He’s a cutie for sure,” she laughed. In a few short weeks, she’ll trade baby giggles for the squeak of ski pole baskets on the cold Finnish snow, but the warmth in her voice already says a lot about where she is mentally this Olympic year: grounded, grateful, and still having fun. “It’s been a...

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Corners and Confidence: Kate Oldham’s Steady Rise to the U.S. Ski Team
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Corners and Confidence: Kate Oldham’s Steady Rise to the U.S. Ski Team

Matthew VoisinOctober 27, 2025

At the World Championships last winter, a slushy, rutted corner near the finish line became a proving ground for precision and poise. The turn was taking down skiers all week — an icy edge here, a soft patch there — the kind of technical trap that can shake even the most seasoned racers. On the U.S. team’s final course preview, Jessie Diggins, Julia Kern, Rosie Brennan, and newcomer Kate Oldham took turns testing different lines....

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