The U.S. Olympic Committee announced Monday that Steve Raymond, Senior Vice President of National Accounts for Disney and ESPN Media Networks, has been selected to serve as Chef de Mission of the U.S. Team for the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games.
Kikkan Randall elected to FIS Athletes’ Commission for a 4-year period to represent Cross Country women athletes.
Marquette Senior High School will add a self-funded Nordic Ski program beginning with the 2009-2010 winter sports season. The Athletic Department will work closely with the Superiorland Ski Club in overseeing the operations of the high school team.
Chandra Crawford is known to Canadians as an elite cross-country skier and 2006 Olympic gold medallist. But Crawford considers herself a disco dancing queen and often dances down the street while listening to tunes on her iPod.
The first annual West Branch Classic was a big hit! The course was very fast with many rollers, smooth low traffic roads and one big thigh buster of a hill finish!
Reigning World Championship gold medalists Todd Lodwick and Billy Demong, along with 2003 World Champion Johnny Spillane set the bar high as the newly named U.S. Nordic Combined Ski Team enters the 2010 Olympic season.
Reigning World Championship gold medalists Todd Lodwick and Billy Demong, along with 2003 World Champion Johnny Spillane set the bar high as the newly named U.S. Nordic Combined Ski Team enters the 2010 Olympic season.
Sean McCabe, loving husband to Olympian and Factory Team member Laura McCabe and father to their two wonderful daughters, has been diagnosed with Undifferentiated Anaplastic Carcinoma, a very rare and aggressive type of thyroid cancer.
Last year's new competition format (one jump, followed by a 10km cross-country race) caused the number of competitions to be shown on TV to double.
FIS Cross-Country Race Director Jürg Capol just returned from the FIS Calendar Conference in Cavtat (CRO) and provided us a quick impression from the meetings from his point of view.
The new FIS calendar includes 24 World Cup competitions (the Tour and the Final both count as one) in 11 different countries in North America and Europe.
Conference recommends introducing a multi-stage World Championship on the basis of the Tour de Ski model in the years where no FIS Nordic World Ski Championships or Olympic Games are held.
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