Cross Country Ski Racing News
Flora Sweeps SuperTour Titles, Freeman Sets Mark
4/19/2007 - By US Ski Team
Olympian Lars Flora swept all three individual men's titles - overall, distance and sprint champion(s) - in 2007's $130,000 Cross Country SuperTour while Kris Freeman won eight races to set a record for most SuperTour wins in his career (23).,
CXC Ski Annual Spring Meeting, April 27-29
4/19/2007 - By CXC Skiing
The agenda for the CXC Annual Meeting at Cresthill Resort in Hayward, WI, has been revised - here's the updated agenda...,
Openings for Athletes on CXC Team
4/19/2007 - By CXC Skiing
Central Cross Country Skiing with the support of the American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation is pleased to announce athlete openings for CXC Ski Team. The team size will be expanded for the 2007-2008 season.,
Skarverennet: Finse to Ustaoset, Norway
4/18/2007 - By Hugh Pritchard
The last major race of the season is the Skarverennet, a 38km race in free technique, which winds through and over the Skarvheimen, just north of the Hardanger plateau, from Finse to Ustaoset. With over 13,000 participants, it is a big one.,
Hurricane Start
4/18/2007 - By FIS
The athletes line up in the shape of a spiral with a meter margin calculated on the basis of their performance in the ski jumping competition, and take the start simultaneously so that the whole field is moving at the sound of the gun.,
World Cup Season Review with FIS Race Directors
4/17/2007 - By FIS
FIS Race Directors for Nordic Skiing, Jürg Capol for Cross-Country Skiing, Walter Hofer for Ski Jumping, and Uli Wehling for Nordic Combined, shared some thoughts about the 2006/2007 season in their respective World Cups.,
FIS's Milan Jirasek Talks about the Junior Worlds
4/16/2007 - By FIS
The Junior World Ski Championships represent an important investment in the future. I am personally interested in the development of the athletes throughout their careers and on how long it takes them to become part of the world elite.,
US Men Again Raise the Bar:Tenth Place in Nations Cup Highlights
4/16/2007 - By US Biathlon Team
The 2007 Biathlon Season was another record-setting year for the US Biathlon Team, led by the men’s squad of Tim Burke (Paul Smiths, NY), Jay Hakkinen (Kasilof, AK), Lowell Bailey (Lake Placid, NY), and Jeremy Teela (Anchorage, AK).,
USSA Alumni Weekend Spotlights Former Athletes
4/14/2007 - By US Ski Team
The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, as part of its ongoing outreach to alumni of its 15 teams in seven sports, held the first U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding Alumni Weekend with nearly 30 alumni honored.,
Solid season in Nordic Combined World B Series
4/13/2007 - By FIS
With the introduction of video jump length measurement for Ski Jumping and the use of transponders in Cross-Country, the overall quality of the Nordic Combined B series has increased significantly.,
Bernd Eisenbichler Named High Performance Director for US Biathlon
4/8/2007 - By US Biathlon Team
New Gloucester, ME, April 4. Bernd Eisenbichler (Munich, GER) has been named High Performance Director for the US Biathlon Association.,
WADA Athlete Outreach program on-site in Tarvisio, Italy
4/6/2007 - By FIS
The WADA Athlete Outreach program is focused on educating athletes and their support personnel about the dangers and consequences of doping.,
