Beside many traditional Cross-Country nations like all the Scandinvian and the Central European countries, the United States with Andrew Newell has announced their participation at the Tour for the first time.
The final Olympic ski and snowboarding teams will be named in January, as close as possible to the Olympics.
After unusually high numbers of entries flowing in since September, exactly three months before the scheduled race date (31st January), the entries were closed for the 2010 Marcialonga on 30th October.
Wednesday 4th November marks 100 days until the opening of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
World Championship silver medalist Kikkan Randall said. "We love to have people join the fan club because it gives us a chance to share our road to the Olympics with them."
With the 2010 Olympic Winter Games on the horizon, athletes have taken up shop around the globe to put on the final touches of training for the season.
A full 50 years after the competition, historian Jakob Vaage uncovered an error in the scoring calculations while preparing for a reunion of the Norwegian medalists. Indeed, the American Haugen should have been third.
Watch the fastest sprinters in the World battle on the 2010 Olympic course, mixed with nordix stunts. Music with permission by Lemon Demon. Production copyright by XCZONE.TV Filmed in HD. The sequence is included in the Blue Ray DVD "Advanced Nordic Skiin
The USSA Competition Guides have been published and they are available online as downloadable pdf files.
Rogge said he is encouraged by "the pace and quality" of the work in the Black Sea resort where almost all of the venues and infrastructure are being built from scratch.
Footage from the 2009 US Ski Team Nordic Combined Nationals Championships in Lake Placid, New York. Video by Torin Koos .
Kevin Patzoldt of Grand Rapids, MN has been named as the 5th man for the US December World Cup team, to compete in World Cups 1-3 in December of 2009. This selection was difficult to make because of the depth of the field competing for the final spot.