Topic: Cross-Country Skiing

Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn caps a banner year for American snow queens

Lindsey Vonn has wrapped up her fourth overall World Cup title this year – a feat matched by only one other woman in the history of alpine skiing. But that's not all.

Crossing lines at the Olympics

An avid U.S. fan finds herself cheering the straight-up sportsmanship of a Norwegian competitor.

Can Canada take gold in pairs figure skating? Olympics schedule Monday

The Vancouver 2010 Olympics schedule today includes medal events in men's and ladies' cross-country skiing, team ski jumping, and ice dance.

Olympics Schedule 2010: Wednesday's events

Olympic medals will be won today in ladies' downhill skiing, ladies' and men's cross-country skiing, men's 1,000-meter speed skating, ladies' 500-meter speed skating, and the men's snowboarding halfpipe.

Weathering the Olympics: how science and sport meet on the bottom of a ski

Rain and slush are testing Olympic skiers as well as their technical gurus, whose choices of skis and wax can help make the difference between gold and anonymity.

Olympics schedule 2010: Monday's events

Monday's Winter Olympics schedule includes women's ice hockey, men's alpine skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, speed skating, luge, and figure skating.

America vs. Canada, Round 1: Who won Winter Olympic redemption?

Both Canada and the US broke long losing streaks Sunday. The US won its first-ever medal in Nordic combined. Canada won its first-ever gold on home soil. But which was a bigger deal?

Nordic combined: Johnny Spillane breaks 86-year US drought

Johnny Spillane won silver in Sunday's Nordic combined race – the first-ever medal for the US in Nordic combined. Americans Todd Lodwick and Bill Demong finished 4th and 6th.

Canada aims to 'Own the Podium' at Vancouver Olympics

Mild-mannered Canada? Think again. The host of the Vancouver Olympics has been on a five-year national drive to win the most medals.

Biathlon

Norway's 'King of Biathlon' is back for his fifth consecutive Olympics, while the US men are well positioned to win America's first medal in the sport.

Cross-country

Petter Northug Jr., the Usain Bolt of cross-country skiing, is ready to redeem Norway's 2006 embarrassing relay performance, while a resurgent US team could win its first medal since 1976 at the Vancouver Olympics.

Nordic Combined

Flying unaided by machines or makeshift wings in one of the most magical Olympics sports, Nordic combined skier Felix Gottwald and a trio of US athletes could make history at the 2010 Games.

Olympics: a maverick skier who could medal

Andrew Newell is turning cross-country skiing on its head, literally, and is one of the U.S. Team's best hopes for an olympic medal.

Video: Winter games without snow

America's new pastime: luge?

The US is enjoying unprecedented success in winter sports where it has long struggled, raising hopes for medals in the 2010 Olympics.

Foreigners at home, US skiers shine at last on global stage

Alaskan Kikkan Randall, at Nordic Worlds, wins first medal for US in cross-country skiing since 1982.