• Classic race begins tomorrow at Highlands nordic at 10 am.
• The teams are waxing well into the night to prepare for the classic race tomorrow. Coaches are gathering spare poles in preparation for the mass start format. The forecast for tomorrow is sun with some clouds and temperatures to -7.

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• Canada's best Junior Men and Women come to Highlands Nordic
  
  Cross Country Ontario is pleased to welcome the members of Cross Country Canada Team 2006 to the Canadian Championships this year. Members include Drew Goldsack, Devon Kershaw, Gord Jewett and Dan Roycroft . The Under 23 World Championships team of Tara Whitten, Sarah Daitch, Adam Kates, Vincent Renart and will also race next week. Tara Whitten arrives here after winning silver at the sprint races at the U23 Championships.
  
  World Junior Team skiers have arrived home from a successful bid at the World Junior Championships. Members of the team who plan to ski at the Canadian Nationals are Sean Crooks, Dave Nighbor, Chandra Crawford, Daria Gaiazova, Madeline Williams and Graham Nishikawa. Crooks placed 11th in the sprints at the World Junior championships this year.
  
  The team is currently competing at the Canada Winter Games. Both Crooks and Crawford won gold at the Sprints on Feb 25, while Daria Gaiazova and Tara Whitten won silver and bronze.
  
  
  

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  The Junior Development team members will be competing at Nationals
  
  Junior development team members Amanda Ammar, Viktoria Koskenoja, Alison Madlung, Ed McCarthy, Louis-Philippe Gagnon, Simon Beaudet, Mark Doble , Terrell Stephens and Brent McMurtry who arrived home two weeks ago after a whirlwind tour of Europe will be among Canada's best junior athletes competing at the Canadain Ski Nationals next week.

• Cross Country Canada announces TV coverage of the2003 Championships.
  
  Cross Country Canada is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement with SportsNet to broadcast this year’s National Championships. The broadcast is scheduled for early April and will feature the sprint races on Saturday the 8th of March.
  
  The production company is XC Zone the producers of the highly acclaimed x-ski videos High Velocity and On Snow. Cross Country Canada believes that XC Zone will use their understanding of x-skiing to bring a fresh exciting perspective to TV coverage of x-skiing.
  
  Cross Country Canada and XC Zone will also be co-producing a Video / DVD of the entire championships and order forms will be available on the web site shortly.     [February 14]

• Details of the seeding rules are now available to all coaches . The schedule for all seeding dealines can be found on the Schedule of Events link.     [February 3]

• Thrifty Car Rental has offered a special rate for minivan rentals for the week of the Nationals ( March 4th to 9th) [ January 31]

• G Push is delighted to be the official Fluid / Energy Replenishment Drink for the 2003 Canadian National Cross Country Ski Championships...  [ January 31]