Billy Demong (Vermontville, NY) just missed the podium finishing fourth in a mass start Saturday as the DKB FIS Nordic Combined World Cup opened a two-event weekend in Val di Fiemme.
Yeah, it is cold. Yeah, the races are postponed, cancelled, held in chilly conditons. Yeah, it isn't perfect. But when the gun goes off all that doesn't matter. Someone will win the race no matter how crazy the lead up or how strange the circumstance.
The US Relay team of Lowell Bailey (Lake Placid, NY), Jay Hakkinen (Kasilof, AK), Tim Burke (Paul Smiths, NY), and Jeremy Teela (Anchorage, AK) posted their best result of the season this evening with an 11th place finish.
After five of nine qualifying races, the 20 spots allotted to the NCAA’s Central Region for the 2009 NCAA Cross Country Ski Championships are being heavily contested.
More photos from the Chestnut Valley Freestyle
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Results from the Timber Ridge Classic Sprints held in Traverse City on Wednesday, January 7, 2009.
Photos from the 2009 Boyne Highlands 10K Classic race on January 4, 2009
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An overview of this year's Tour de Ski..and the Toru de Gusto?
Plagued by freezing temperatures, officials at the 2009 ConocoPhillips U.S. Cross Country Championships were forced to postpone the 5 and 10K classic races Tuesday at Anchorage's Kincaid Park.
Photos from the 2009 Chestnut Valley Freestyle race.