News, tips, and guides for the Nordic Ski Racer

Paull and Dawson win cold Garland Gripper

Denny Paull and Natalie Dawson were king and queen of the Garland Gripper Classic Race at Garland Resort on Saturday, January 17, 2009.

By Mike Muha
Jan 18, 2009

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Hakkinen hits all targets & moves up to 26th in World Cup Ranking

Ruhpolding, Germany. 17 January 2009. Jay Hakkinen (Kasilof, AK) took a conservative approach to the 10 km Sprint at the Ruhpolding World Cup.

By US Biathlon Association
Jan 18, 2009

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Team Champion results for Champion Hill

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.

By Ed Anderson
Jan 17, 2009

MI Cup individual standings through Champion Hill

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.

By Ken Dawson
Jan 17, 2009

Watch Biathlon World Cup Live Sat and Sun from Ruhpolding

Watch it live from USBiathlon.org. Click on the picture in the upper right corner of the news headlines page to open the live streaming video.

By US Biathlon Association
Jan 17, 2009

US Nationals Waxing Commentary

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.

By Bryan Fish
Jan 16, 2009

More photos from the Champion Hill 15 Km

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.

By John Howe
Jan 16, 2009

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Video from the Grand Rapids Langlauf at Champion Hill

Video pre-start, start and finish of the 2009 Grand Rapids Langlauf 15 Km at Champion Hill.

By Ken Lake
Jan 16, 2009

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Traverse City Sprint results for Jan 13

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.

By Mark Esper
Jan 16, 2009

2009 US Nationals and Swix LF3 Cold Powder

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.

By Swix Technical Team
Jan 16, 2009

XC Ready to Test Out Whistler

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.

By US Ski Team
Jan 16, 2009

Americans Finish 5th in Relay World Cup Ruhpolding

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

By US Biathlon Association
Jan 16, 2009