Cross-Country Headlines

• Polish Olympian tests positive for EPO POSTED: Mar 11, 8:01a ET | UPDATED: Mar 11, 9:01a ET The Polish Olympic Committee says cross-country skier Kornelia Marek tested positive for EPO at the Vancouver Olympics.
  
• Magnificant: Manificat wins first World Cup race of career POSTED: Mar 6, 9:55a ET | UPDATED: Mar 6, 9:55a ET Maurice Manificat of France won a men's 30-kilometer pursuit Saturday after holding off Lukas Bauer of the Czech Republic in the final sprint for his first World Cup victory.
• Bjoergen bounces 15km field in Finland POSTED: Mar 6, 8:22a ET | UPDATED: Mar 6, 8:44a ET Triple Olympic champion Marit Bjoergen of Norway won the women's 15-kilometer pursuit Saturday at the Lahti Ski Games.
• Northug wins Olympic gold in mass start POSTED: Feb 28, 2:36p ET | UPDATED: Feb 28, 11:45p ET Petter Northug of Norway won the men's 50km mass start with a furious dash to the line.
  
• Majdic, Rochette recipients of Terry Fox award POSTED: Feb 27, 4:56p ET | UPDATED: Feb 27, 8:33p ET

  Slovenian cross-country skier Petra Majdic and Canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette are the recipients of the Vancouver 2010 Terry Fox Award.

• Majdic, Rochette recipients of Terry Fox award POSTED: Feb 27, 4:56p ET | UPDATED: Feb 27, 8:33p ET

  Slovenian cross-country skier Petra Majdic and Canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette are the recipients of the Vancouver 2010 Terry Fox Award.

• Kowalczyk wins women's 30km mass start gold POSTED: Feb 27, 4:16p ET | UPDATED: Feb 28, 1:24a ET Poland's Justyna Kowalczyk won the women's 30km mass start after a heated sprint with Marit Bjoergen, who won her fifth medal of the Games with a silver.
  
• 'Crushed' McKeever left out of 50km race POSTED: Feb 27, 3:27p ET | UPDATED: Feb 27, 11:29p ET

  Blind Paralympian Brian McKeever will not get the chance to become an Olympian in Vancouver after he was left out of Canada's four-man squad for Sunday's 50km mass start.

• Skier poised to be both Olympian and Paralympian POSTED: Feb 26, 1:03p ET | UPDATED: Feb 27, 11:28p ET

  Brian McKeever likes to joke that navigating the course in cross-country skiing simply requires him to "stay in the white between the green."

• Bjoergen in pursuit of history POSTED: Feb 26, 12:40p ET | UPDATED: Feb 26, 12:43p ET

  With three gold medals already in hand, Marit Bjoergen isn't about to get greedy.

• Kowalczyk accuses Bjoergen of illegal aid POSTED: Feb 26, 12:25p ET | UPDATED: Feb 26, 12:25p ET

  A rival athlete has accused Norway's triple cross-country gold medalist Marit Bjoergen of using asthma medication to help her win at the Vancouver Olympics.