Northug wins men's 15K; American Freeman 4th

Norway's Petter Northug won the men's 15-kilometer classic style World Cup race on Sunday, while American Kris Freeman finished a career-best fourth.

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Northug the man to beat as Olympic season starts

Petter Northug enters the Olympic season as the man to beat in cross-country skiing, and he isn't doing much to downplay expectations.

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World Cup champ Cologna back training after injury

World Cup cross-country skiing champion Dario Cologna of Switzerland has resumed training on snow following a month off because of injury.

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Zimmermann, Stephen win US cross-country pursuit

Leif Zimmermann won the men's 30K pursuit national title and Elizabeth Stephen the women's 15K title Friday at the U.S. Distance Cross Country Championships.

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Curiosity didn't kill this cat: Kitty heads home after 3-week cross-country journey in locker

A cat who took a three-week cross-country ride to Arizona in a storage container will be going home to Florida.

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Oregon Rancher Ends Cross-Country Ride

An Oregon rancher who set off on a cross-country horseback ride seven months ago in search of what's good in America dismounted Sunday, feeling encouraged by the spirit and stories of the people he met.

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Cowboy Tours Country to Find Good News

When rancher Bill Inman decided to show there's more to America than the gloom-and-doom on the nightly news, he hopped on his horse and started riding.

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A Bridgeport teen is dead following an awning collapse Tuesday afternoon. The accident happened outside of the Club Barbells Gym on Halsell Street in the Wise County town.

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A 15-year-old Los Angeles girl who navigated a single-engine Cessna through thunderstorms in Texas and took in breathtaking aerial views of Arizona's sunsets landed her plane to cheering crowds at Compton Woodley Airport on Saturday.

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"I didn't want to just go to a school where I was going to get sucked into this collegiate program where I was just running for points.

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In its third decade of honoring the nation's best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in partnership with ESPN RISE Magazine, today announced senior distance runner Jordan Hasay of Mission College Prep (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) as its 2008-09 Gatorade National Girls Cross …

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A man accused in the deaths of six people in a cross-country killing spree is being sent to a maximum-security psychiatric hospital after being found mentally incompetent to stand trial.

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"I think it's finally starting to sink in just it was really nice coming back to win it my senior it especially when I didn't really know I was going to win it until the last fifty meters or so. So it was a fun race and really exciting," said Hasay.

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2008 Footlocker XC Finals Photo Collage

Video (photo) collage of the girls race held Saturday, 2008-December-13. Jordan Hasay won her second championship, and became the first girl to ever win in on-consecutive years.

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Lebid pulled away from Great Britain's 2006 champion Mo Farah with 500m left to provide further evidence that he is the greatest cross country runner that Europe has ever produced.

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"It wasn't easy to win this race; cross country is never easy," said Kuijken. "The start was very fast, but I'd made up my mind not to go for silver, only gold counts."

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Already the only woman to have won the European junior title twice, Twell, 19, extended her record by winning it for a third time in what was her last international race before she graduates to the senior ranks.

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Jordan Hasay was patient until the last 300 meters, saving up what has become the best of her weapons, an ever-improving kick. Three years ago, in her first trip to San Diego, she wouldn't have imagined waiting for a kick. But things have changed.

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Girls - Jordan Hasay wins! 6th repeat Foot Locker champion Allie McLaughlin CO sprints to huge lead until last hill when defending champ Ashley Brasovan FL reels her in with 500 meters to go. Then Hasay charges past both in last 100 meters.

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"We've had some amazing runners," race director Jeanine Zocks said. "We've had a lot of runners that have gone on to be a part of the Olympics ... This is the strongest field - boys and girls - in a long time."

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Oregon's Rupp, Puskedra, Lananna and Washington's Schaaf, Babcock, Metcalf earn All-Conference accolades.

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Jordan Hasay of Arroyo Grande, Calif., and Chris Schwartz of Bakersfield, Calif., won the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships (FLCC) West Regional at Mount San Antonio College (Mt. SAC) in Walnut, Calif., today.

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Hasay is a three-time regional champ, running 17:17 last year, 17:43 as a sophomore and 17:14 as a freshman. The top 10 finishers in each of the seeded races qualify for the Foot Locker Cross Country National Finals on Dec. 13 at Morley Field at San Diego's Balboa Park.

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"This season, I was not focusing on anything exterior. I got what I wanted out of the sheer love of running," Ghebray said. "I re-awakened my love for running this summer instead of viewing it as a job.

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NCAA cross country champion Galen Rupp and coach Vin Lananna have been recognized for for their performances in the 2008 season.

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Aged 19, still a junior, and with two European junior titles behind her, she has no intention of running the senior race in Brussels in a fortnight. Yet she carved an 11-second victory over former senior European champion Hayley Yelling.

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"I was a little disappointed with my time, but really happy about all the support." The crowd serenaded Hasay with cheers as she came up the grassy Woodward Park homestretch for the 11th, and last, time.

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"I felt really great," she said. "I'm just excited and really proud to win it for my school. "Running down the homestretch, I was definitely pretty sad. I was trying to run as fast as I could because I knew it was my last (state cross country race)."

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Ethiopia's Olympic 5000m and 10,000m champion Kenenisa Bekele today ruled himself out of the indoor season and possibly the IAAF World Cross Country Championships next spring due to a stress fracture he sustained in his right ankle.

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Mission Prep High senior Jordan Hasay will try to become just the second four-time champion at Saturday's CIF State Cross Country Championships at Woodward Park.

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2008 Olympian Galen Rupp has been named USA Track & Field's Athlete of the Week after winning the men's individual national title Monday at the 2008 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships in Terre Haute, Ind.

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Galen Rupp said he has learned from his mistakes, and Monday it paid off with his first individual NCAA championship.

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