December 2, 2006 – Canadian biathlon veteran, Robin Clegg, fired his way back up the international rankings after finishing 33rd in the men’s 10-kilometre World Cup sprint in Őstersund, Sweden on Saturday. The 29-year-old Ottawa … READ MORE → 0 comments

December 1, 2006 – Coffee cups don’t lie, and with 360 of them missing at the end of a chilly weekend there’s no disputing the success of the X-C.com inaugural Nordic Event Tour weekend November … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 30, 2006 -The Viessmann FIS Cross-Country World Cup events in Aosta and Cogne (both ITA) which were planned for Friday, Dec. 8 and on Sunday, Dec. 10 are cancelled due to the lack of … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 30, 2006 (Ostersund, Sweden) – For the past six years, Canada’s Zina Kocher has dreamed about putting together the perfect race, and crossing the finish line knowing she would be standing on a World … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 30,2006 (Hayward, Wisconsin) – The search for two tough cross-country skiers to re-enact the 801-year-old legend that inspired the creation of the American Birkebeiner 51-kilometer cross-country ski race from Cable to Hayward, Wis. is … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 29, 2006 (Pinkham Notch, NH) – Great Glen Trails Outdoor Center announces the Women’s Winter Escape on January 12 – 13, 2007. A snow country getaway for women only, this new event is designed … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 29, 2006 – Skigo is proud to announce Official Supplier/Sponsor status with Nordic Combined Canada for Skigo ski waxes, ski poles and accessories. Earlier this year Skigo and Biathlon Canada announced a similar partnership. … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 28, 2006 – Pending final agreement from Vancouver 2010, the 2010 Olympic Winter Games could be the first to feature the exciting new event of ski cross. The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Executive Board … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 29th, 2006 – The Viessmann FIS Cross-Country World Cup events in Aosta and Cogne (both ITA) will take place as planned on Friday, December 8, and Sunday, December 10. The Italian Winter Sports Federation … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 28, 2006 – The Banff Ski Runners club, of Banff Alberta, led the medal count at the first Canada Cup races of the season held at Sovereign Lake Nordic Centre in British Columbia. … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 28, 2006 (Ried im Innkreis, Austria) – Fischer will be concentrating on a new focus in the future in its range of winter sport products. This focus will be on race-standard winter poles. … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 27, 2006 -The Finnish and Norwegian athletes mounted the top step of the podium in the men’s and women’s distance events in Kuusamo, Finland on Sunday.Norway’s Eldar Roenning handily captured the men’s title in … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 26, 2006 – Norway’s Eldar Roenning and Virpi Kuitunen of Finland won rainy classic technique World Cup cross country races Sunday. Top American on the day was Kris Freeman (Andover, NH), who finished 33rd … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 26, 2006 – High winds, which forced cancellation of a ski jumping event the night before, and rain forced officials Sunday to cancel a nordic combined sprint World Cup.“I don’t know if they were … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 26, 2006 (Kuusamo, Finland) – Canada’s top nordic skiers got their feet wet while competing in the opening World Cup cross-country skiing sprint event of the season Saturday in Kuusamo, Finland.With a goal of … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 25, 2006 (Kuusamo, Finland) – Andy Newell (Shaftsbury, VT) and Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, AK) each finished 12th Saturday in a fog-wrapped, classic technique sprint event, leading four U.S. cross country skiers into World Cup … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 24, 2006 (Nova Scotia) – This is the largest used equipment sale in the Atlantic Provinces. Skiing, snowboarding and cross-country equipment, clothing and accessories available at up to 50% off retail. … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 23, 2006 (Kuusamo, Finland) – The ski jumping and nordic combined World Cup seasons begin this weekend with temperatures expected to be more balmy than in recent sub-freezing season openers. Jumping has night events … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 23, 2006 – Recently Forbes Traveler Magazine polled members of the US Ski Team about their favorite ski resorts in North America. Favorites were solicited from athletes Andrew Newell, Torin Koos, Andrew Johnson and … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 21, 2006 – Royal Gorge Ski Resort has put the rustic 1920s Rainbow Lodge on the market for $7 million including 114 acres of surrounding land and artesian wells that supply water to … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 18, 2006 (Gaellivare, Sweden) – Canada’s Devon Kershaw took a deep breath, convinced himself to finally relax, and welcomed the cold and hard conditions in Swedish Lapland to post a 15th-place finish in the … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 18, 2006 – Kris Freeman (Andover, NH) opened his World Cup season Saturday with an 18th-place finish in a 15K freestyle race north of the Arctic Circle. Norwegian Ole Einar Bjoerndalen – who left … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 16, 2006 – Welcome to the season’s first update on USSA’s Cross Country SuperTour, designed to keep you updated on the latest information. An excellent World Cup opening result in Dusseldorf for 2004 SuperTour … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 15, 2006 (Vernon, BC) – Nordic skiers will be grinning from ear-to-ear with the today’s signing of a historic agreement between Silver Star Mountain Resort and the Sovereign Lake Nordic Club. Both local and … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 15, 2006 – Canada’s Devon Kershaw won a silver medal after crossing the line three seconds off the pace in a 15-kilometre Contintal Cup classic ski race in Finland on Sunday, November 12.Kershaw, of … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 14, 2006 – Dear XC enthusiasts! This will be another short update as we are busy skiing. We have had a number of significant snow falls over the past 5 days and accumulated snow … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 14, 2006 – Salomon is happy to announce the eleven-person Subaru Factory Team for 2006/2007. The team consists of members with credentials ranging from local marathon champions to Olympic/World Championship competitors. The … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 11, 2006 – A major early-winter storm system moving across British Columbia has dumped over twenty centimetres at Silver Star Mountain Resort, giving the ‘green light’ to open the Nordic trails on Saturday, … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 8, 2006 – All Nordic skiers take note, especially Master, Junior and U23 racers. The trails at the Black Jack Cross Country Ski Club in Rossland, BC will be hosting their two biggest race events … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 8, 2006 (Park City, Utah) – While he’s training in Sweden for the next cross country World Cup races, Olympian Andy Newell (Shaftsbury, VT) – whose podium finish last March in China was the … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 7, 2006 – Team X-C.com is looking to make fast tracks the natural way this season thanks to partnerships with three delicious and highly effective all-natural sport nutritional supplements. With the aid of Ultima … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 6, 2006 – Welcome to the future, welcome into the cold. You might as well be on the moon or even Mars. That is the extraordinary feeling you get after … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 6, 2006 – There are only three-and-a-half years before Vancouver kicks off the official opening of the 2010 Olympic games, and like Chandra Crawford, they’ll likely fly by in a blur! The 2010 … READ MORE → 0 comments

November 1, 2006 (Ottawa, ON) – The Coaching Association of Canada (CAC) announced that ice hockey coach Clare Drake of Edmonton, Alberta and Jean Blackie of Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador are the recipients of the … READ MORE → 0 comments

October 30, 2006 (Canmore, AB.) – Less than a week after major upgrades were announced for their home training base at the Bill Warren Training Centre in Canmore, Alta., Canada’s elite cross-country ski athletes received … READ MORE → 0 comments

October 29, 2006 – Sweden’s men and Norway’s women won the first cross country team sprint of the new World Cup season Sunday before a large and wildly cheering throng. No U.S. racers competed.Olympic sprint … READ MORE → 0 comments

October 28, 2006 – Olympian Andy Newell (Shaftsbury, VT) collided with another racer in his semifinal heat of the season-opening World Cup sprint Saturday but rebounded to finish eighth in the rainy, soft-snow conditions. He … READ MORE → 0 comments

October 28, 2006 – Lake Superior College and LSC Online are the title sponsors of this year’s Nordic Spirit Ski Race and Tour. The event will take place on the scenic and challenging Spirit Mountain/Magney-Snively … READ MORE → 0 comments

October 27, 2006 – An ailing but determined three-man U.S. sprint squad, battling chest and head colds, will race in the opening World Cup competition of the 2007 season. Organizers began laying down machinemade snow … READ MORE → 0 comments

October 26, 2006 – The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) is pleased to welcome nine new Canadian companies to its Official Licensee Program under the ‘Apparel’ and ‘Headwear’ … READ MORE → 0 comments

October 25, 2006 – Here is the second edition of the Tour de Ski Newsletter. The Cross-Country season will start next weekend, and in only 66 days, the first edtition of the Tour de Ski … READ MORE → 0 comments

October 25, 2006 – Dow Chemical Canada Inc., a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, joins the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) as the official supplier of Insulation … READ MORE → 0 comments

October 24, 2006 – X-C.com is proud to announce their partnership with the Kicking Horse Coffee Company, producers of Canada’s number one Organic and Fair Trade coffee. Based in Invermere, BC, the Kicking … READ MORE → 0 comments

October 23, 2006 – The U.S. Ski Jumping Team is no longer a boys club. For the first time, there’s a women’s group on the team…and both sides are looking at what they feel can … READ MORE → 0 comments

October 23, 2006 (Colorado Springs, CO) – With autumn rolling in across the country, the race schedules for most multisport athletes are coming to a close. But for those involved in the up-and-coming sport of … READ MORE → 0 comments

October 23, 2006 (Bonn, Germany) – Last weekend, Bonn, Germany, home of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) headquarters, was the centre of several IPC Committee meetings.From October 20-21, the IPC Anti-Doping Committee held their annual … READ MORE → 0 comments

October 23, 2006 – Today STAPLES Business Depot/BUREAU EN GROS is launching its seventh annual “Give a Dollar. Share a Dream.” fundraising campaign to help send Special Olympic athletes to the 2007 Special Olympics World … READ MORE → 0 comments

October 23, 2006 – Team X-C.com is ready to go and looking forward to another great racing season! With 5 years to look back upon, the ‘TEAM X-C.COM’ concept has been very successful to the … READ MORE → 0 comments

October 21, 2006 (Canmore, Alta.) – Canada’s elite nordic athletes will begin to cut their final tracks down the road to the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver with additional training resources, thanks … READ MORE → 0 comments

October 20, 2006 – Alpina sports invites coaches and retailers to a wax clinic presnted by Harri Aaltonen of Start Wax, Finland. Come and share in Harri’s knowledge of waxing from his experience on the … READ MORE → 0 comments