Latest Cross country skiing News
Diggins wins 15-kilometer World Cup event before tour reaches her home state of Minnesota
CANMORE, Alberta (AP) — Jessie Diggins won a 15-kilometer World Cup skiing event Friday, a week before the tour makes a stop in her home state of Minnesota. Diggins’ time of 40 minutes, 26 seconds gave her a 2.6-second edge over runner-up Delphine Claudel of France for her fifth...
Missing snow has made staging World Cup cross country ski race a steep climb in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The long road of bringing the World Cup in cross country skiing back to the U.S. has hit one final speed bump: the Minnesota weather, or lack thereof. With the Twin Cities metro area on pace for the least snowy winter on record, organizers have been on a...
The US cross country ski team keeps climbing. Up next: Hosting a World Cup race
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After Jessie Diggins secured the first American Olympic gold medal in cross country skiing six years ago, her agent urged her to pursue her most ambitious desires in that moment of cultural adulation. She shrugged off the trip to Disney World or a new car. ...
