At the 2014 U.S. Cross Country Championships, winning by any margin is enough to make most competitors’ day. Not so for Caitlin Gregg of Team Gregg and Madshus, who won Wednesday’s 20 k freestyle mass start by over three and a half minutes, a gap that has not been seen at the national level in recent memory.
Jennie Bender rose from fifth to first in the final stretches of Sunday's 1.5 k freestyle sprint to complete the Bridger Ski Foundation's podium domination at U.S. Cross Country Championships at Soldier Hollow.
Photos of some of the top finishers in the U.S. Cross Country Championships women’s 1.5-kilometer freestyle sprint on Sunday. Caitlin Gregg (Team Gregg/Madshus) won it by more than 4 seconds in 3:09.97 to advance to the quarterfinals, which start with the men at 1 p.m. MST.
Fairbanks native Becca Rorabaugh (APU) pulled off the best result of her career in Saturday's 10 k classic individual start, winning the first race of U.S. nationals on an unforgiving 2002 Olympic course by 14 seconds over Caitlin Gregg.
We know, you’ve been on the edge of your seat since the release of “The Adventures of Gregg and Liebsch: Part I,” and you can’t wait to find out what happened to the two Midwest pals in their quest to qualify for the Olympics. Picking up where we left off: the plane ride from Washington state to Bozeman, Mont.
Emily Nishikawa and Erik Bjornsen picked up their first victories of the season in the Black Jack NorAm freestyle sprints on Saturday in Rossland, B.C., coming out on top of heats that were jam-packed with tactics, crashes and tight finishes.
Last week, Brian Gregg and Matt Liebsch decided on a whim that they might as well splurge for a chartered flight to Bozeman, Mont., for the second set of SuperTour races there. This is the first part of a story about their journey, which started with a two-day drive from Montana to British Columbia and a forgotten passport.
It makes sense that two skiers born in Alaska and Russia won Sunday's classic mass starts in subzero temperatures just above the legal limit at the SuperTour in Bozeman, Mont. "No one's psyched to be so cold, but I just try to put it out of my mind and focus," Holmes says.
Photos from the second set of SuperTour races at Bohart Ranch in Bozeman, Mont., with 10/15 k classic mass starts taking place in temperatures just above the legal limit of -4 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday.
Sun Valley Elite Team Skier Rose Kemp Stratton T2 Team’s Eric Packer and APU’s Reese Hanneman battling in the final West Yellowstone Fall Ski Festival attendees mob the Toko booth
Caitlin Gregg won the 5k by over 1:02! She was in a class of her own. Sun Valley Elite’s Rose Kemp. Sun Valley Elite’s Miles Havlick.
Tele Hill is tough, especially in above-freezing temperatures when 130 men have skied it before you (three times apiece). Here's a look at the women's SuperTour top 10 in the 10-kilometer freestyle individual start on Nov. 30 — the final race of the West Yellowstone SuperTour.
Watching her husband in the West Yellowstone SuperTour 15 k skate on Saturday, Caitlin Gregg (Madshus/Team Gregg) had a sense it was going to be another good day. Brian Gregg placed second and Caitlin went on to win the women's 10 k individual race by more than a minute and 20 seconds. “It's incredible,” she said. “It’s so fun when this stuff happens.”
The highlight of Caitlin Gregg’s day was seeing all her Midwest fans, her Loppet Nordic Racing buddies, at the finish of each heat on Friday during the first SuperTour sprint of the season. That gave her reason to celebrate and smile every time she won, which Gregg did all morning and early afternoon in the West Yellowstone 1.3 k skate sprint.
While Caitlin Gregg and Sweden's Emil Johansson took the cake in Friday's West Yellowstone SuperTour freestyle sprint, who you is up for a victory in the women's and men's 10- and 15-kilometer freestyle individual starts on Saturday? Vote now!
Some of the most competitive skiers in the U.S. SuperTour circuit give thanks and express appreciation for friends and family before, during and after their Thanksgiving ski sessions in West Yellowstone, Mont., one day before the SuperTour opens there on Friday.
Katerina Smutna of Austria topped U.S. Ski Team members Ida Sargent and Sophie Caldwell in Thursday's on-snow sprint at Frozen Thunder, and Dakota Blackhorse-von Jess led an American sweep of the hypothetical podium in what was essentially the first race of the season.
www.grouprev.com/nnfdrivexc About Team Gregg: Brian and Caitlin Gregg are newlywed athletes pursuing the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia in Cross Country Skiing. Follow their journey at www.nationalnordicfoundation.org
Liz Stephen and Tim Burke make skiing uphill for five miles look like a piece of cake. That's because there was nobody within about three minutes of either of them in their Climb to the Castle wins on Sunday.
Caitlin Gregg shares a group workout that pushes her to the max on any given day. Formerly of Central Cross Country (CXC), Gregg is currently training in Minneapolis with her husband Brian and racing for the Methow Olympic Development squad in Washington.