What’s your resolution for the new year? Lose weight? Start an exercise program? Kick your career into high gear? Devote more time to family?

It was a momentous year, a year of events that will echo in the annals of history the way a dropped plate of calamari echoes in an Italian restaurant with a tile floor.

Christoph Eigenmann (SUI) and Marit Bjorgen (NOR) won the men's and ladies’ opening Sprint Stages of the inaugural Tour de Ski in Munich on New Year’s Eve.

Munich, GER—A Christmas scrooge may have tried to spoil the holidays for Canada’s elite cross-country skiers, but Santa certainly had the last laugh before the New Year rings in – delivering a present in the form of silver and bronze medals for Devon Kershaw and Chandra Crawford in the sprint competition at the FIS Tour de Ski in Munich, Germany on Saturday.

The triathlon is Park Dong-sik’s (40) lifetime challenge. Park who quit his job in 1995, left for India, and traveled to all around the world for eight years, thought of a triathlon he saw on TV in his high school as his travels got routine.

Canadians earned a pair of cross-country podium finishes Sunday at the inaugural Tour de Ski event in Munich.

Actors Hilary Swank and Chad Lowe, after eight years of marriage. Separation announced Jan. 10.

Second placed Devon Kershaw, from Canada, celebrates on the podium during the "Tour de Ski" World Cup competition inside the olympic stadium in Munich, southern Germany, Sunday.

MUNICH, Germany (CP) - It was a double podium day for Canada's cross-country skiers. Devon Kershaw of Sudbury, Ont., finished second in the men's sprint at the inaugural Tour de Ski on Sunday while Chandra Crawford of Canmore, Alta., was third in the women's race.

MUNICH, Germany — Marit Bjoergen of Norway and Christoph Eigenmann of Switzerland won the first races Sunday at the new Tour de Ski. The overall time winner at the six-race cross-country event will get 400 World Cup points.