Sweden is hosting this year's Cross-Country World Cup Final with the Svensk Skidspelen in Stockholm and Falun.
For the first time since February 2004 the Cross-Country World Cup is making a stopover in Trondheim (NOR) from 12th to 14th March.
It looks like a really tight race this year between defending champs XC Ski Headquarters, Hanson Hills/XC Ski Shop & Traverse City Junior Team.
This winter I had the opportunity to see what it is all about....I skied in my first World Cup.
Altogether, 20 medal events were on schedule in Liberec. Of those, Cross-Country had twelve events in Vesec, plus - for the first time - the qualification race for the individual start competition for competitors low points.
Here are more photos from the 2009 Muffin Race at the Cross Country Ski Headquarters.
Twenty skiers from the Central Collegiate Ski Association will represent the conference at the upcoming NCAA Ski Championships, with full squads from Northern Michigan University and Michigan Tech leading the way.
Right after the 2009 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec the Lahti Ski Games (Salpausselänkisat) will be held for the 84th time with a full Nordic World Cup program. The event will take place from March 6-8.
Kris had surgery this yesterday morning. I’ve talked with him a couple times, and it’s been comical. Between the dwindling effects of anaesthesia, the first dose of heavy duty pain medication, and his third cup of post-surgical coffee he’s been...
GRNST skiers won the men > 50 division and placed a strong second in the men < 50 division in the Black Mountain Classic. These wins were enough to give them the overall team win for the day while the women's division was won by the Straits Striders.
The Great Ski Race was exactly that, great. We woke up in the morning to warm conditions but it was not raining like the forecast said it might.
Team NordicSkiRacer.Com was at the Sapporo Skimarathon this winter, one of the Worldloppet events.
CXC Jr. Cup / Midwest Division - Classic Sprint
Cable, WI - American Birkebeiner Trailhead