Cross - country skiing

from a need to travel over snow-covered terrain and developed as a sport at the end of the 19th century.

on the territory of modern Norway. Swedes and Finns followed Norwegians’ example. In the late XIX – early XX centuries national skiing clubs appeared in many countries.
Since 1924, cross-country skiing is an official Olympic sport. International Ski Federation (FIS) was established in the same year. The first World Cup in the history of cross-country skiing was held in 1925 in Czechoslovakia.