Let’s take a moment and remember some American men’s relay teams from recent global championships. There were 2023 world champs in Planica, where the Americans finished eighth. There were the 2022...
“The past is never dead. It's not even past,” as well-known cross-country ski fan William Faulkner famously wrote in his how-to guide for klister waxing, Requiem for a Nun.
The American women...
Jessie Diggins is pretty good at these 10km skates. There were three 10-kilometer interval-start skate races held on the World Cup last season. Among these three Diggins was first in Lillehammer,...
I wrote last week, to open my coverage of the 20km skate mass start in Ruka, that there are a lot of Norwegians out there who are very good at distance...
The World Cup circus travels to Gällivare, Sweden, this weekend for a pair of races. There will be a 10-kilometer interval-start skate race on Saturday, then relays on Sunday. The relays...
Jessie Diggins didn’t have all her poles or gloves. Rosie Brennan didn’t have all her energy. But after 55 minutes of cutthroat racing they both ended up in the same place:...
