Winter Olympics

Canadian freestyle skier Burke dies after Utah crash

Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke, a four-time Winter X Games champion, has died nine days after crashing at the bottom of the superpipe during a training run in Utah.

Schultz claims spot in world curling finals

Jessica Schultz, a former Anchorage resident who curled in the 2006 Winter Olympics representing Alaska, will be competing in the 2011 World Women's Curling Championship next month in Denmark.

FIGURE SKATING

Messing claims first at Romanian junior event

Girdwood's Keegan Messing captured the gold medal Saturday at the Brosov Cup, a Junior Grand Prix figure skating meet in Romania.

Southam finish in 50-K his best during the Olympics

Using the Winter Olympics as the stage for one of the best performances of your career would make most any athlete happy and proud, and for the most part, those were the emotions that registered with Anchorage's James Southam on Sunday.

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Randall and Brooks finish on a high note at the Olympics

Holly Brooks will hold her head up high tonight when she marches in the closing ceremonies at the Winter Olympics.

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Canada wins 'great game' of hockey to take the gold

This was best possible way to end the Olympics for Canada.

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U.S. biathlon relay team finishes in 13th place

The U.S. biathlon relay team, which included Jay Hakkinen of Kasilof and Jeremy Teela of Anchorage, finished 13th Thursday in the final biathlon event of the Vancouver Olympics.

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Kikkan shakes a leg in women's relay

For the third time this Olympics, Anchorage's Kikkan Randall showed she's a world-class racer with medal-winning potential.

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American women take silver in hockey

Defenseman Kerry Weiland of Palmer and her Team USA mates had to settle for silver today, when Canada beat the Americans 2-0 to capture the gold medal in women's hockey at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

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Alaska Olympians -- dispatches and schedule

Not that we expect Alaskans to root for anything other than a gold medal for Palmer's Kerry Weiland in today's gold-medal women's hockey game at the Winter Olympics, but at least one member of the Alaska Aces will be cheering for Canada.

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What's the Olympic capital of Alaska?

The news that Kerry Weiland of Palmer will win an Olympic medal Thursday when the United States meets Canada in the gold-medal hockey game raises an interesting question. What Alaska city boasts the most Olympic medal winners?

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Alaskan scores as US women's hockey team guaranteed medal

Palmer hockey player Kerry Weiland won an Olympic medal Monday, but she won't know what color it is until Thursday. The victory over Sweden at Vancouver's Canada Hockey Place guarantees Weiland will leave the Winter Olympics with either a gold or silver medal.

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Randall leads US duo to 6th in cross-country team sprint

Kikkan Randall said she felt medal-winning fast Monday at the Winter Olympics, and the results back her up.

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Anchorage's Kikkan Randall had a front-row seat last week to what should be the iconic moment of the Vancouver Olympics -- and probably would be if it had happened to an American instead of a Slovenian.

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U.S. biathletes continue to struggle on shooting range

As Winter Olympic woes continued for the U.S. biathlon team Sunday, the gang that can't shoot straight will try to put another disappointing day behind it and prepare for one last shot at redemption.

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Southam leads other Americans in cross-country pursuit

One of 64 racers in the field, James Southam placed 34th to finish as the top American for the second time in these Olympics. He took a spill on a slushy corner on a downhill with two kilometers left in the classic portion of the dual-technique race, a stumble that he said cost him a top-30 finish.

Amreican biathletes continue to struggle

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Brooks 56th in 15-K nordic pursuit

Four kilometers into her 15-kilometer race Friday, cross-country skier Holly Brooks was in misery and in trouble. The Winter Olympics had caught up to her.

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Biathlete Hakkinen has rough shooting day at Olympics

Miserable shooting today doomed the last best hope of Kasilof's Jay Hakkinen to earn the Olympic medal he's chased for nearly two decades. Jeremy Teela of Anchorage scratched because of illness.

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Randall tops own Olympics record

Anchorage's Kikkan Randall did not win an Olympic medal in her specialty event, finishing eighth in the classic sprint Wednesday. But the bubbly skier sounded as if she found something nearly as good.

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