Cross Country Ski Racing News
Successful Continental Cup series
3/28/2009 - By FIS
The FIS Continental Cup series allow the younger athletes to prepare themselves for the World Cup level. Some of those held during the Northern hemisphere winter period are the OPA Cup (Central Europe), the Scandinavian Cup as well as the US Super Tour.
Bill Demong picks up $85K in World Cup prize money
3/28/2009 - By Mike Muha
Bill Demong, third place overall in the World Cup Nordic Combined, finished the season with 97,250 Swis francs or about $85,038 at today's currency conversion rate.
Preview of Updates Coming Soon
3/27/2009 - By Pete Vordenberg
Most are in Fairbanks. A few are on the way up there from Sweden. Some are cooked and not rare but all the way through. I'm in Rodby, Denmark on the way to Munich, then home. I'll get some more stuff up then.
Koos pulls away during men’s final leg
3/27/2009 - By Matias Saari
First there was the World Cup finale on Sunday. Then the blow-out bash in Sweden. Next came a flight across the pond only to be stranded in Seattle for 36 hours due to the Mount Redoubt eruption.
U.S. Ski Team sweeps with women’s title
3/27/2009 - By Matias Saari
“To be totally honest, I think it’s the first sprint-out I’ve ever won,” said Stephen, who teamed with Morgan Smyth to take the U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships title.
Smyth, Stephen take Team Sprint Titles
3/27/2009 - By US Ski Team
Morgan Smyth , alongside teammate Liz Stephen, took her second U.S. title in as many days as the duo finished first in the team sprint at the 2009 U.S. Cross Country Championships in Fairbanks Wednesday night. Chris Cook and Torin Koos won the men's.
Justyna Kowalczyk (POL) and Dario Cologna (SUI) make history
3/26/2009 - By FIS
The overall World Cup victories for Kowalczyk and Cologna also made World Cup history since no other skier from either Poland or Switzerland has ever before clinched a Cross-Country World Cup crystal globe.
Skier takes the money, but not the title
3/26/2009 - By Matias Saari
Perhaps it’s fitting that a Swedish skier won the first event of what local organizers are calling the biggest races in Fairbanks in a quarter century...
I finally won the US Nationals race!
3/26/2009 - By Kristina Strandberg
I had a late start so I could watch the other girls leave the start gate and I was getting both nervous and anxious to get my race going. A few last thoughts popped into my mind; "do I have enough kick;" "did I warm up enough."
A few more photos of the Michigan Cup Relays
3/26/2009 - By Greg Worrel
Here are a few more photos (just a few) of the 2009 Michigan Cup Relays...
Southam, Rorabaugh pace Alaska skiers on first day of U.S. National Championship
3/25/2009 - By Matias Saari
Becca Rorabaugh used a little home-course advantage to land on the podium for the 5-kilometer classic race that opened the U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships Tuesday night at Birch Hill Recreation Area.
Strandberg, Southam Take Classic Titles
3/25/2009 - By US Ski Team
Kristina Strandberg of XC Oregon and James Southam of Alaska Pacific University Nordic Ski Club Kicked off the 2009 U.S. Distance Cross Country Championships by grabbing U.S. Championship titles in the women's 5K and men's 10K classic races in Fairbanks.
