“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,...
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:...
I’m going to save you all some time here and simply incorporate by reference the last two thousand words that I wrote about Rosie Brennan and the power of persistence: Below...
It was something old, something new as the 2023/2024 World Cup season kicked off under the lights in Ruka earlier Friday. Emma Ribom of Sweden won the opening classic sprint here...
If it’s mid-October, it’s time for rollerski racing at Soldier Hollow. Competing in the third annual Schützenski Festival, athletes kicked off cross-country rollerski racing earlier Saturday with a pair of 10-kilometer...