Monday, 6 December 2021

Cross country skiing struggles to rid the sport of PFAS

Cross country skiing struggles to rid the sport of PFAS

Hundreds of the country’s fastest cross country skiers will compete at a national SuperTour race this weekend in Duluth, with a chance to earn points to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team that will compete in Beijing in February. And it’s a good bet that just about every one of those skiers will coat the bases of their skis in wax that contains per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances — a family of human-made chemicals known as PFAS — that have polluted water supplies around the world, including in Minnesota.

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