At Pello, Finland two more British skiers achieved the World Cup qualification
standard for next season. Callum Smith & Simon Platt join Andrew Musgrave,
Andrew Young & Alex Standen as British World Cup qualified skiers. Platt is from
England the Lakeland X/C SC and the other four are Scottish based from the
Huntly Nordic SC.

The results can be seen at
http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/1228.html?event_id=25528&cal_suchsector=CC

And there are reports at the British Team website:
http://www.britnordicteam.co.uk/

This year Musgrave & Young became the first British skiers to ski at a World Cup
race in 15 years. We now have 5 skiers qualified with more skiers getting close
to the standard. What makes this even more remarkable is that all are juniors
(U21) & Young & Smith are only 17.