Cross country race articles
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Marcel Hirscher retired from skiing at the top. He's back to race for a country with no mountains
Marcel Hirscher, one of the most successful ski racers of all time, is planning to return next season after five years in retirement. And the record eight-time overall World Cup champion is going to compete for the Netherlands - his mother’s country - instead of his native Austria.
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Nine 'Marmite' Sunderland school lessons you either loved or hated, from cross country to chemistry
School lessons. There were the ones you loved and the ones you detested. But which were yours. We’ve got cross country running in Seaburn in 1960, music lessons in Southwick in 1985 and the Thorney Close gym in 1953. We have Bunsen burners at Pennywell School in 1995 and swimming in Farringdon in 1974. Tell us about the school lessons you loved - and the ones you loathed. But only after you have browsed through our Echo line-up.
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‘We mailed our cat’: Utah family reunited with dehydrated, healthy feline who took cross-country trip in Amazon return
“We realized that that our sweet kitty must have jumped into that box without us knowing,” Carrie Clark said.