After four years of anxious anticipation – and four months of perilously-low snow – a city at the edge of the American consciousness, and a community of skiers unfamiliar to European athletes, will find themselves under FIS’s carefully-aimed cameras. Last in the United States in 2001, and canceled on Shutdown Friday of the 2020 pandemic, the Cross-Country World Cup is coming to Minneapolis. Hosted by the Loppet Foundation, the world’s best will race at Theodore Wirth Park – an oasis of oak savannah just minutes from downtown.