Sentences with phrase «cross-country ski team»

«You never used to see that,» says Weber, a former member of Canada's cross-country ski team who has travelled to the pole by both ski and snowshoe.

One brutally cold, dark winter night, Sorensen forced herself to join National Leasing's cross-country ski team in a corporate challenge to raise funds to buy ski equipment for disadvantaged kids.

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He's a lone wolf more attracted to cross-country skiing and mountain climbing than social work or team building.

# 31 Latner Straley PINEDALE Junior national cross-country ski champ in 1980,» 81; part of U.S. national team from»79 to» 83.

SKIING — NORWAY took five gold medals in the world Nordic championships in Oslo as BJORN WIRKOLA, a 22 - year - old shipping clerk, won both the Holmenkollen Hill special 90 - meter and the 70 - meter jumps, and 24 - year - old GJERMUND EGGEN took two individual cross-country gold medals — the 50 kilometer and 15 - kilometer — and anchored the winning 40 - kilometer relay team (page 51).

When the team was put together, Day had never skied in an official cross-country race, and the Olympic subcommittee governing the selection of the U.S. Nordic team did not see how it could possibly make an exception to the rules for him and still discharge its duties with responsibility.

Kikkan Randall and Jessie Diggins won the women's team sprint freestyle race at the Pyeongchang Games, outsprinting more heralded teams from Sweden and Norway to become the first Americans to win an Olympic gold medal in cross-country skiing.

In her time outside her law career, Judge Keyes is an avid cross-country skier who has coached with the Caledonia Nordic Ski Club and the Rocky Mountain Rangers Army Cadets biathlon team.