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FasterSkier’s Canadian Breakthroughs: Collin Cameron and Zina Kocher

With the 2017/2018 season officially in the rearview, FasterSkier is excited to unveil its annual award winners for this past winter. Votes stem from the FS staff, scattered across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and while...

U.S.A. Storms Falun World Cup Finals Podium; Diggins 2nd in Overall World Cup

FALUN, Sweden -- NOR. USA. USA. Looking at the results monitor, those were the tri-letter country codes that popped into the top three at the end of the women’s 10-kilometer freestyle pursuit at World Cup Finals on...

Bolshunov Breaks Through in Falun; Harvey Second in Pursuit

It is a wrap. The 2017/2018 World Cup season concluded Sunday in Falun, Sweden with the men's 15-kilometer freestyle pursuit. The World Cup Finals featured a three-race mini tour with a skate sprint, 15 k class mass start...

Sunday Rundown: Diggins and Harvey 2nd, Bjornsen 3rd in Falun Pursuit; Dunklee 3rd in Oslo (Updated)

FIS Cross Country World Cup Finals (Falun, Sweden): 10/15 k freestyle pursuits Men's report In the last women’s race of the World Cup season, U.S. Ski Team members Jessie Diggins and Sadie Bjornsen made it one...

Pärmäkoski Wins Another 10 k Classic; Diggins 8th, Bjornsen 11th in Falun

FALUN, Sweden -- To those watching, even to those racing, the winner was the woman who had led most of Saturday’s 10-kilometer classic mass start: Norway’s Marit Bjørgen. “Marit and Tiril [Udnes Weng], another...

Bolshunov Nabs First-Career World Cup Win, Controls Falun Mini Tour

Saturday was the second day of World Cup Finals mini tour, held in Falun, Sweden, which conclude the 2017/2018 season. Friday’s first stage began with a skate sprint, while Saturday featured a 15-kilometer classic...

Saturday Rundown: Pärmäkoski Beats Bjørgen in Falun 10 k Classic; Bolshunov Notches First Win

FIS Cross Country World Cup Finals (Falun, Sweden): 10/15 k classic mass starts Women's report Men's report Day 2 of World Cup Finals in Falun entailed 10- and 15-kilometer classic mass starts on Saturday, and in...

Falk Wins Last Sprint in Falun; Caldwell 6th in Final, 3rd in Sprint World Cup

FALUN, Sweden -- Even the sky had predictions for Sweden. Without a cloud in sight, cerulean blue and a golden sun served as Falun’s backdrop for the opening race of the 2017/2018 World Cup Finals on Friday: the...

Klæbo Hop-Skates for the Falun Sprint Win; Hamilton 14th, Bolger 30th

At 21 years old, Johannes Høsflot Klæbo of Norway had already locked up his second-consecutive Sprint World Cup Crystal Globe several weeks ago. A down-to-the-wire, season-ending finale for the sprint globe was out of...

Friday Rundown: Falk, Klæbo Win Last Sprint of Season in Falun; Caldwell 6th

FIS Cross Country World Cup Finals (Falun, Sweden): Freestyle sprints Women's report Men's report In the last sprint of the season and the first race of the three-day World Cup Finals in Falun, Sweden’s Hanna...

Diggins Goes All In for the Win, Bjørgen Earns 7th Holmenkollen Title

*Update: This article previously stated that Jessie Diggins was the first American woman to reach a podium at the Holmenkollen. Diggins is actually the first American woman to reach the Holmenkollen podium in the 30 k...

Sunday Rundown: Holmenkollen 30 k; Kontiolahti Mass Starts

FIS Cross Country World Cup (Oslo, Norway): Women's 30 k freestyle mass start Full report Marit Bjørgen, the Norwegian queen of distance cross-country events, racked up another victory at Holmenkollen in the...

Cologna Captures First Holmenkollen 50 k; Harvey 9th, Patterson 16th

OSLO, Norway -- Thumping house music. Thousands of raucous fans, who, if not waving Norway’s flag, had their faces painted in their national colors of red, blue and white. If the American Super Bowl translated to...

Saturday Rundown: NCAA Champs; Holmenkollen 50 k; Kontiolahti Relays

NCAA Skiing Championships (Steamboat Springs, Colorado): 15/20 k freestyle mass starts On the fourth and final day of NCAA Skiing Championships at Howelsen Hill in Steamboat Springs, Katharine Ogden skied to her...

Falla for the Win, Diggins Third in Drammen Classic Sprint

DRAMMEN, Norway -- Barring the spectators cheering from their apartment balconies, the most marked aspect of Wednesday’s 1.2-kilometer classic sprint course was the finish line. It crosscut the top of a 15-meter climb. ...

Klæbo Takes a Bow in Drammen Classic Sprint; Erik Bjornsen 18th

In the classic venue that are the Drammen city sprints, it was a singular affair from start to finish during the men’s World Cup 1.2-kilometer classic sprint on Wednesday. In a race format that tapered from a field of...

Wednesday Rundown: Falla & Klæbo Take Drammen Sprints, Diggins Third

FIS Cross Country World Cup (Drammen, Norway): Classic sprints Women's report Men's report The cross-country World Cup hit the city on Wednesday, with classic sprints contested in the Oslo suburb of Drammen on...

Bolger’s World Cup Debut: ‘The Hard Part Was Over, Now It Was Time to Have Some Fun’

On Saturday in Lahti, Finland, Kevin Bolger of the Sun Valley XC Gold Team made his World Cup debut. In his first season since graduating from the University of Utah, Bolger earned start rights for the final period...

Pärmäkoski Untouchable in Lahti 10 k; Bjornsen 7th, Saying ‘Let’s Just Send It’

(Note: This article has been updated to include comments from American Caitlin Patterson.) The 2018 Olympics were pretty successful for Finland, in terms of cross-country skiing: Iivo Niskanen won gold in the 50 k and...

Poltoranin Does It Again with Lahti 15 k Classic Win

You could call him a specialist. An all-around contender in classic distance races, Alexey Poltoranin of Kazakhstan has proven time and time again that he has the 15-kilometer classic individual start figured out. On...

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