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Other Alaska athletes came heartbreakingly close to qualifying. And retired superstar Kikkan Randall will be an Olympic presence too — from an NBC broadcast booth in Connecticut.

A positive could upend years of training and preparation, so Alaska athletes are taking extreme measures to avoid the virus before they leave for China.

Messing recently won his first Canadian national championship. He shares thoughts on his recent success, becoming a father and the upcoming games in Beijing.

Some premier races already required vaccinations, and are now implementing strict COVID-19 testing protocols and social distancing measures.

Both squads win A-team titles handily with the Knights’ Tobias Buchanan out front among the boys and South’s Maggie Keffalos clocking the fastest girls time.

Alyeska Ski Club competitor dominates division while Austin Murphy is the U-14 boys winner of the overall trophy.

Courses ranged from 25 to 43 miles. Laura Fox and Will Ross were this year’s long-course winners.

Figure skater Keegan Messing practices jumps in Anchorage on Jan. 14, 2022.

Four decades of pent-up emotion were unleashed Monday night as the Bulldogs snapped a frustrating national championship drought by vanquishing their nemesis.

Messing’s victory came after he experienced several flight cancellations, putting him on a 33-hour journey from Anchorage to Ottawa, Ontario for the competition.

Novak Djokovic’s lawyers filed court papers Saturday in his challenge against deportation from Australia that show the tennis star tested positive for COVID-19 last month and recovered, grounds he used in applying for a medical exemption to the country’s strict vaccination rules.

Novak Djokovic was confined to an immigration detention hotel in Australia on Thursday as the No. 1 men’s tennis player in the world awaited a court ruling on whether can compete in the Australian Open later this month.

The top three skiers in both the men’s and women’s distance races are Alaska-based or have Alaska roots.

Schoonmaker comes from behind while in the women’s race, Caitlin Patterson of Anchorage also becomes a U.S. champion.

Nadia Popovici, who goes to Kraken games with her stepfather’s season tickets, was the subject of a search from Canucks assistant equipment manager Brian “Red” Hamilton, who said Saturday Popovici had saved his life.

After a pair of easy wins in the semifinals on Friday night, the Crimson Tide and the Bulldogs — the only two teams to be ranked No. 1 in the AP Top 25 this season — will meet again to decide the title Jan. 10 in Indianapolis.

Officials did not specify what caused the postponements, saying more generally that the games were pushed back because of “health and safety protocols relating to COVID-19.”

The NFL said he died unexpectedly and did not detail a cause.

The Fenway Bowl and Military Bowl were canceled on Sunday and the Sun Bowl was in doubt as coronavirus outbreaks spread at Miami, Virginia and Boston College.

Along a 20-mile stretch of the Western front, unarmed German troops climbed over the parapets and walking toward the British side simply to shake hands and exchange greetings, the first tentative steps toward what is likely the largest spontaneous Christmas truce in modern history.