http://www.mail.com/subjects/196934-nordic-skiing.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/196934-nordic-skiing.html http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2097300-russian-oligarchs-foot-2014-sochi-olympics.html SOCHI, Russia (AP) — The mountains of Sochi are now home to Potanin's slope, Gazprom's gondola lift and Sberbank's ski jump. The nicknames used by locals and an army of construction workers leave no doubt about who is paying for the 2014 Winter Games: Russia's business powerhouses. Other countries that have hosted the Olympics have overwhelmingly used pub... Mon, 20 May 2013 15:48:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2097300-russian-oligarchs-foot-2014-sochi-olympics.html 2013-05-20T15:48:33Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2017894-flanagan-best-us-hope-boston-marathon-years.html BOSTON (AP) — Shalane Flanagan grew up in nearby Marblehead watching her father run the Boston Marathon. Her mother was a marathoner, too, setting the women's world record in 1971. But Flanagan never ran her hometown race even as she was building a celebrated cross-country career that took her to three Olympics. Now, as the 31-year-old local favorite prep... Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:30:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2017894-flanagan-best-us-hope-boston-marathon-years.html 2013-04-13T22:30:42Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1982804-wada-backs-hgh-test-extremist-nfl-union.html LONDON (AP) — The World Anti-Doping Agency defended its test for human growth hormone on Wednesday and accused the NFL players union of being "extremist" for questioning its validity. WADA director general David Howman said the union was acting "the way they've operated the last few years" in trying to block the introduction of HGH testing in the National... Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:46:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1982804-wada-backs-hgh-test-extremist-nfl-union.html 2013-03-27T18:46:07Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1976368-northug-clinches-cross-country-wcup-title.html FALUN, Sweden (AP) — Petter Northug of Norway clinched the overall cross-country World Cup title Sunday with a convincing victory in the final race of the season. Northug had a big lead over his main competitors going into the concluding 15-kilometer freestyle pursuit race at the three-day World Cup finals, and won the race in 35 minutes, 48.3 seconds. In... Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:11:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1976368-northug-clinches-cross-country-wcup-title.html 2013-03-24T15:11:09Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1967276-apnewsbreak-ioc-to-retest-2006-turin-samples.html LONDON (AP) — With the eight-year deadline approaching, the IOC will retest doping samples from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin in a bid to catch any drug cheats who escaped detection. IOC medical commission chairman Arne Ljungqvist told The Associated Press on Wednesday that samples will be retested with more advanced techniques to search for banned su... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:49:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1967276-apnewsbreak-ioc-to-retest-2006-turin-samples.html 2013-03-20T13:49:07Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1944300-northug-kowalczyk-win-cross-country-races.html LAHTI, Finland (AP) — Petter Northug of Norway dominated a men's 15-kilometer classical race Sunday to gain ground in the overall cross-country World Cup standings, while Justyna Kowalczyk all but sealed the women's season title with another victory. Northug led from the start to win in 34 minutes, 35.6 seconds. Alexey Poltoranin of Kazakhstan was second,... Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:44:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1944300-northug-kowalczyk-win-cross-country-races.html 2013-03-10T12:44:47Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1942992-randall-us-wins-cross-country-wcup-sprint-title.html LAHTI, Finland (AP) — Kikkan Randall of the United States clinched the cross-country World Cup sprint title on Saturday by edging Norwegian world champion Marit Bjoergen at the line in the Lahti Ski Games. Randall and Bjoergen were in a two-day duel on the final stretch of the 1.55-kilometer freestyle race, and the American managed to throw her ski forwar... Sat, 09 Mar 2013 14:00:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1942992-randall-us-wins-cross-country-wcup-sprint-title.html 2013-03-09T14:00:54Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1942910-randall-clinches-cross-country-wcup-sprint-title.html LAHTI, Finland (AP) — Kikkan Randall of the United States clinched the cross-country World Cup sprint title on Saturday by beating Norwegian world champion Marit Bjoergen to the line in a close finish at the Lahti Ski Games. Randall and Bjoergen were in a two-day duel on the final stretch of the 1.55-kilometer freestyle race, and the American managed to t... Sat, 09 Mar 2013 13:02:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1942910-randall-clinches-cross-country-wcup-sprint-title.html 2013-03-09T13:02:18Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1919010-northug-wins-individual-15k-nordic-worlds.html VAL DI FIEMME, Italy (AP) — Petter Northug won his first gold medal of this year's Nordic world championships on Wednesday in the 15-kilometer individual freestyle. The Norwegian beat Johan Olsson of Sweden by 11.8 seconds, finishing in 34 minutes, 37.1 seconds. Tord Asle Gjerdalen was third, 22.3 seconds behind Northug. "I knew from the first races that ... Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:40:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1919010-northug-wins-individual-15k-nordic-worlds.html 2013-02-27T15:40:42Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1911746-us-wins-historic-gold-medal-nordic-worlds.html VAL DI FIEMME, Italy (AP) — Kikkan Randall and Jessica Diggins gave the United States its first world championship gold medal in cross-country skiing Sunday by winning the women's team sprint by nearly eight seconds. After Diggins opened up a small lead on her last leg, Randall anchored the American duo to the victory with a scorching final lap to pull aw... Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:58:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1911746-us-wins-historic-gold-medal-nordic-worlds.html 2013-02-24T14:58:16Z http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/1885554-calgarys-1988-winter-games-legacy-thriving.html CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — The founding fathers of the 1988 Winter Olympics had financial foresight. While many recent Olympic host cities build temporary sports venues or convert permanent ones to other types of facilities, Calgary's five are still heavily used for their intended purpose 25 years later. Canada Olympic Park, Scotiabank Sa... Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/hockey/1885554-calgarys-1988-winter-games-legacy-thriving.html 2013-02-12T07:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1874986-putin-angry-sochi-olympics-cost-overruns.html SOCHI, Russia (AP) — A year before the 2014 Winter Olympics are to begin, President Vladimir Putin has demanded that a senior member of the Russian Olympic Committee be fired, apparently due to cost overruns in host city Sochi — a demand certain to be fulfilled. The current price tag for the Sochi Games is 1.5 trillion rubles ($51 billion), which would ma... Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:29:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1874986-putin-angry-sochi-olympics-cost-overruns.html 2013-02-07T19:29:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1804078-montreux-jazz-founder-coma-ski-fall.html GENEVA (AP) — The Montreux Jazz Festival says its founder and general manager Claude Nobs has been hospitalized in a coma due to a cross-country skiing injury over the holidays. The summer music festival says 76-year-old Nobs fell while skiing and underwent surgery at the university hospital in Lausanne, where he has remained unconscious and requires furt... Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1804078-montreux-jazz-founder-coma-ski-fall.html 2013-01-07T14:37:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1756674-snowfall-boon-upper-midwest-outdoors-fans.html MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After enduring last year's snowless winter, skiers and snowmobilers may have despaired of ever seeing a decent snowfall again. But fans of the wintry outdoors got their wish this weekend when a slow-moving storm dumped up to 16 inches of snow on parts of the Upper Midwest. "With global warming in the back of your mind, you think, 'Jeez,... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:06:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1756674-snowfall-boon-upper-midwest-outdoors-fans.html 2012-12-10T22:06:00Z