Possible Clues:

• WORD BEFORE CROSS OR SKIING
• Like Icelandic and Faeroese
• ___ skiing
• ___ combined: Winter Olympics event
• -- skiing, skiing cross-country and ski-jumping
• People of Northern Europe
• Rodin sculpted a number of blond, blue-eyed people
• Like cold countries? That's no way to Africans' heart
• Of Scandinavia, Finland and Iceland
• Like some skiing