The winner of the World Cup kick off in the Sprint race in Duesseldorf (GER) were the two youngsters, the 21-year-old Natalia Matveeva (RUS) and the 22-year old Josef Wenzl (GER).,
Andy got off to a good start [in quarterfinals], but said he made a tactical error. He tried to go outside on a corner after the start/finish area and a couple of guys snuck inside, and then he was trying to make up 10, 15 meters the rest of the way.,
Live pictures from the FIS Ski Cross Country World Cup Sprint trail in Duesseldor, Germany!,
U.S. Ski Team sprinters Andy Newell (Shaftsbury, VT) and Torin Koos (Leavenworth, WA) will be on the start line when the 2008 FIS Cross Country World Cup season opens in front of over 100,000 spectators in Dusseldorf. The series begins today on a 1.5K ,
A review of the winners from the 2007 FIS World Cup. Will any of them win this year?,
Held annually, the USADA Symposium on Anti-Doping Science is designed to enable the medical and science communities to gather and discuss the science behind doping with the potential for developing a uniform testing scheme.,
For the second year in a row, the national championships for cross country skiing will take place in Houghton, Michigan. The U.S. Cross Country Championship will be held at the Michigan Tech Nordic Training Center, January 1-6, 2008.,
The Midwest Junior Executive Committee is looking for 5 additional coaches to staff the Midwest Junior National Championships Team in Anchorage, Alaska.,
FIS Race Director Jürg Capol hopes for more snow than last season for hte World Cup Circuit. [Don't we all!],
The Viessmann FIS World Cup Cross-Country will start the season for the 6th time in Düsseldorf, the metropolis at the river Rhine. On October 27-28, 2007, about 150 of the best athletes from 21 nations are competing for the first points of the season.,
Teammate Torin Koos led the quarterfinal and semifinal heats of the classic technique race, but Newell took charge on the final uphill and breezed to victory over the last few hundred meters; Koos finished fourth.,
The boys qualified 2nd and 4th even though they started 30 minutes after the top seed and the track went from OK to mush. Torin won both his heats but faded in the final. Andy skied to 2nd in both of his heats but fired it up to win the final.,