Cross Country Ski Headquarters wins another Michigan Cup! Good job getting your skiers out, Headquarters!
The U.S. Cross Country Ski Team's Andy Newell (Shaftsburry, VT) led the way for five U.S. athletes into the final heats of a World Cup classic sprint in Whistler, finishing seventh at the site of the 2010 Olympic Games.
Billy Demong (Vermontville, NY) capitalized on a massive 134.0 meter jump to win the Olympic test event World Cup at the Whistler Olympic Park Friday. The DKB FIS Nordic Combined World Cup win was the fifth of his career and second this season.
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Here are the current results for individual Michigan Cup scoring (PDF) as of the Grand Rapids Langlauf 15km at Champion Hill. Team results will be posted on next report.
Team results were calculated for the Champion Hill freestyle race this past weekend. The overall Team Champion for the race was Hanson Hills/Cross Country Ski Shop.
The US Relay team of Lowell Bailey, Jay Hakkinen (Kasilof, AK), Tim Burke, and Jeremy Teela posted the best US relay result in 20 years tonight with a 5th place finish in the 4 x 7.5K Relay
The cross country action kicks off today with a classic sprint and runs through the weekend with pursuits on Saturday and the team sprint event Sunday.
2009 US Nationals proved to be some of the coldest racing we have experienced in a long time. The race organizers did a great job, but the weather just did not cooperate. The result was two of four events were cancelled due to cold temperatures.
These are the results from the Nordic sprint races at Hickory Hills on Tuesday the 13th. The format that we use at Hickory Hills has racers ski at least separate 3 one kilometer sprints.
Video pre-start, start and finish of the 2009 Grand Rapids Langlauf 15 Km at Champion Hill.
Champion Hill Nordic Ski Trails, Beulah, Michigan, 1-11-09 - “Langlauf“ is German for “cross-country ski run”. Top Nordic Ski racers from the state and region converged here to compete in this challenging 15 kilometer freestyle event.
Head Coach Bryan Fish of CXC Team talks about his waxing experience at US Nationals. CXC member Caitlin Compton won the women's 5k skate and Matt Liebsch finished 3rd in the men's 10k skate, and were observed as having had extremely fast skis.