Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing

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  Flanagan best US hope in Boston Marathon in years

  Shalane Flanagan grew up in nearby Marblehead watching her father run the Boston Marathon. Her mother was a marathoner, too, setting the women's world ... 

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  WADA backs HGH test against 'extremist' NFL union

  The World Anti-Doping Agency defended its test for human growth hormone on Wednesday and accused the NFL players union of being "extremist" for ... 

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  Northug clinches overall cross-country WCup title

  Petter Northug of Norway clinched the overall cross-country World Cup title Sunday with a convincing victory in the final race of the season. 

• APNewsBreak: IOC to retest 2006 Turin samples

  With the eight-year deadline approaching, the IOC will retest doping samples from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin in a bid to catch any drug cheats ... 

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  Northug, Kowalczyk win cross-country races

  Petter Northug of Norway dominated a men's 15-kilometer classical race Sunday to gain ground in the overall cross-country World Cup standings, while ... 

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  Randall of US wins cross-country WCup sprint title

  Kikkan Randall of the United States clinched the cross-country World Cup sprint title on Saturday by edging Norwegian world champion Marit Bjoergen ... 

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  Randall clinches cross-country WCup sprint title

  Kikkan Randall of the United States clinched the cross-country World Cup sprint title on Saturday by beating Norwegian world champion Marit Bjoergen ... 

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  Northug wins individual 15K at Nordic Worlds

  Petter Northug won his first gold medal of this year's Nordic world championships on Wednesday in the 15-kilometer individual freestyle. The Norwegian ... 

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  US wins historic gold medal at Nordic Worlds

  Kikkan Randall and Jessica Diggins gave the United States its first world championship gold medal in cross-country skiing Sunday by winning the ... 

• Calgary's 1988 Winter Games legacy thriving

  The founding fathers of the 1988 Winter Olympics had financial foresight. While many recent Olympic host cities build temporary sports venues or ... 

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  Putin angry over Sochi Olympics cost overruns

  A year before the 2014 Winter Olympics are to begin, President Vladimir Putin has demanded that a senior member of the Russian Olympic Committee be ... 

• Montreux Jazz founder in coma from ski fall

  The Montreux Jazz Festival says its founder and general manager Claude Nobs has been hospitalized in a coma due to a cross-country skiing injury over ... 

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  Snowfall a boon for Upper Midwest outdoors fans

  After enduring last year's snowless winter, skiers and snowmobilers may have despaired of ever seeing a decent snowfall again. But fans of the wintry ...