Beautiful blue skies for another great Aroostook Women's Ski Day!

This past weekend the Olympic Development Team, post graduate team and a J2 skier traveled to the Green Mountain State to compete in the third Eastern Cup of the season. The team headed to Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream Factory in Waterville for a tour before attending official training Friday afternoon. 

 Oslo, Norway Tim Burke has been struggling with his standing shooting this season, but not today. He had his first 4-stage clean race of his career to move from 15th place into 6th in today's Pursuit race. Teammate, Lowell Bailey, who finished 8th in the Sprint on Thursday, was in third place in todays's Pursuit after two shooting stages, but had three misses in his standing shooting to drop to 12th. Jay Hakinnen finished 25th today. 

The Men's performance on Thursday moved them into 8th Place in Nations Cup points, ahead of Italy. It was also strong enough to put Lowell Bailey and Tim Burke into the Mass Start tomorrow. To watch the race live visit: www5.biathlonworld.com/en/ and look for the BIATHLONWORLD TV box on the right of the page.

 Pineland Farms, Maine The Super Bowl raffle to support the US Biathlon team closed at 1PM this afternoon. Thank you to all of the people who bought tickets. We raised $64,000, sold 54,000 tickets and have given a big boost to the US Team. The winner was from Canton, Massachussetts, and bought 50 tickets this morning...

The fourth North American Cup that was scheduled for LaPatrie was quickly moved to Valcartier after Tuesday’s rain deteriorated the course. Athletes and coaches quickly changed reservations and arranged for the change in race venue.  The Maine Winter Sports Center Athletes arrived to Valcartier on Friday afternoon to preview the course at the Myrian Bedard Biathlon Center in the powdery snow.

 Brezno-Oserblie, Slovakia Follow Russell Currier and his teammates, Leif Nordgren, Mark Johnson, Hannah Deissigaker and Laura Spector at European Biathlon Championships. Click here for results: services.biathlonresults.com/Schedule.aspx

There was a big turnout on Sunday at 10th Mountain for the second Aroostook Cup of the 2012 season.

Fort Kent, ME-  North American Cup number four kicked off in cold January temperatures in Ft. Kent, Maine this past weekend. Each day MWSC athletes had to wait  in the logde for the temprature one hour delay. The cold temperatures allowed for excellent grooming on the trails on the home course. There were a total of 14 biathletes representing the Maine Winter Sports Center in the Masters Men, Senior Men and Women, Junior Men and Women, Youth Men, and Junior Boys and Girls at 10th Mountain.

Rumford, ME—The Junior classic race at the  U.S. Cross-Country Skiing Championships helped to determine the U.S. teams to the World Junior Championships and the J1 Scandinavian Trip.  But, those were not the only titles determined on the tracks at Black Mountain that day: Maine’s Tenth Mountain Division Junior Cross-Country Championship went to Rachel Hall and Tom Rabon for the second consecutive year. 

Four tickets to the Super Bowl, NFL Experience theme park, Pepsi Smash Concert plus hotel rooms, transportation allowance, and funding to cover taxes