In an effort to emulate the success of the vaunted Tour de France of cycling, the Nordic World Cup features an annual event called the Tour de Ski, comprised of ~8 races over the course of ~2 weeks around New Year’s. The Tour de Ski includes many different events such as sprints, point-to-point distance races, mass-start and a short prologue. Similar to the Tour de France, the overall winner is crowned based on aggregate time over all 8 events.
The Tour de Ski began yesterday with a prologue:
Tour De Ski Prologue from CrossCountrySki.us on Vimeo.
