The Great Lakes Winter Trails Council named Milan Baic, the “Ski Coach of the Year.” Milan received this special award and recognition because of the countless hours that he has dedicated to promoting cross country skiing in the Great Lakes Region.
Short vid about Johnny Spillane and Billy Demong ski flying in Slovenia on the world's largest ski jump, post Olympics. Helmet cams!
With a total of seven Olympic medals in tow, the U.S. Ski Team's nordic combined superstars Billy Demong, Johnny Spillane, Todd Lodwick and Brett Camerota have shipped off to the middle east to visit the troops as part of the 2010 Heavy Medal Tour.
CXC Team Vertical Limit is seeking for an assistant coach and race support manager to work full time with post graduate, U23 and senior athletes
FIS Cross-Country Race Director Jürg Capol took the time to assess the past 2009/2010 season in the VIessmann FIS Cross-Country World Cup.
Laura DeWitt was named the CCSA Female Athlete of the Year while Sten Fjeldheim and Jenny Ryan shared CCSA Female Coach of the Year honors. It was the second consecutive year of award for DeWitt and Fjeldheim.
The FIS Continental Cup series all over the world allow the younger athletes to prepare themselves for the World Cup level. A s a bonus, the Continental Cup winners/leaders are allowed to compete in the World Cup Final.
Following this final race of ten, the new king and queen of long distance Cross-Country Skiing were crowned with Jenny Hansson (SWE, 600 points) and Fabio Santus (ITA, 417 points) winning the titles.
Watch the Red Bull Nordix event - Jumps, downhills, uphills: four skier heats.
Santiago Ocariz of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Northern Michigan’s Laura DeWitt were named CCSA Athletes of the year. Their coaches, Wisconsin-Green Bay's Butch Reimer and MNU's Sten Fjeldheim and Jenny Ryan, took home Coaches of the year.
"I really began to pick up speed from the Olympics on, it felt great to finish the season on a high note."
A great video showing how a paintball biathlon was put on by NENSA and US Biathlon.