Last Saturday, 6th November, the FIS Council held its Autumn Meeting and took some important decisions for the upcoming seasons.
All 16,000 start bibs to the popular Norwegian loppet, the Birkebeinerrennet, were sold out 18 minutes after the online registration has started.
The Frosty Freestyle will present a series of three FREE classes designed to introduce people to the sport of cross country ski racing. The classes will be held at REI in Ann Arbor every Tuesday evening for three weeks, starting Nov 30.
This trip marks one of the premier steps of the elite athlete and coach development pipeline in the U.S. The U.S. Ski Team is pleased to announce the 2011 staff.
The J1 Scandinavia Championship Trip is a fixed piece of the elite athlete and coach development pipeline in the U.S. having been in place as an organized trip for over ten years.
The most popular events are the Cross-Country relay men, Ski Jumping (individual, large hill); Cross-Country pursuit 30 km men, 10 km ladies, sprint, 30 km ladies and 50 km men. 100,000 tickets are still available.
When the boys of NMU met Steamboat Springs, CO... A fun video taken at the 2010 NCAA Nordic Championships in Steamboat Springs.
The IOC Executive Board announced that it is looking favorably at the inclusion of the Biathlon Mixed Relay into the program of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
USSA will score certain FIS & Continental Cup events in Europe to the National Ranking List (NRL), as well as them being scored to the FIS points list. This is a dramatic increase in the number of weekends (from 2 to 10) that will be scored.
My goal has always been to be an all-around skier, it just happened that my sprint results got good first. Every season my distance racing gets a little better and I hope to one day be able to win a distance world cup race as well as sprints.
Bergkönig Trail Run proceeds to support the race directors, Maria Stuber and Bryan Cook, who are both currently competing for the CXC Elite Team
UpNorthLive.com (TV 7/4) has a nice video interview with Eli Brown and of skiers testing the course before the race.