It was history in the making in Italy Sunday as World Champions Billy Demong and Todd Lodwick took first and second, marking the first time two U.S. athletes have made the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup podium together.
The International Competition Committee of the U.S. Biathlon Association conducted a final review of results from the IBU Cup races in Altenberg, Germany. The US Biathlon Assoication will forward these athletes names to the US Olympic Committe.
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Milan Baic took his first Michigan Cup race win of the season in Sunday's Langlauf 15K Freestyle at Hanson Hills Recreation Area in Grayling, Michigan. In the women's 15K, Amy Wichern easily out raced the field for first.
Czech Lukas Bauer became the first man to win two Tour de Ski titles with an impressive climbing performance in Val di Fiemme.
I'm very happy about my victory. The Tour de Ski is one of the biggest event in Cross-Country Skiing. It is the third biggest event after the Olympics and World Championships.
History repeats for Tim Burke with 2nd place finish in the mass start biathlon in Oberhof. IT was the first mas start medal ever for a US Biathlete. Burke regainsthe lead in the overall World Cup standings.
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Lukas Bauer (CZE) was the strongest in men`s challenging 20km mass start race leaving Petter Northug (NOR) 31,5 seconds behind.
The Slovenian Petra Majdic won todays 10km classical Mass start race in a tight finish and took all 45 possible bonus seconds from the intermediate sprints and the finish.
Although being three hundred kilometers apart, today's Sprint races in Oberhof and Altenberg both took place amid strong winds, dense fog and snow making the competition especially challenging for the U.S. biathletes.
The U.S. Ski Team's three world champions played a key role in a back-and-forth battle Saturday in the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup in Predazzo. But in the end, it was Austria's Felix Gottwald taking the win with Johnny Spillane fourth.