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?Marit Bjoergen, the most decorated Winter Olympian in history, says she is retiring from cross-country skiing. Bjoergen has won 15 Olympic medals, including eight gold, along with 114 individual wins in 303 World Cup races.

Canada's Alex Harvey capped his cross-country ski World Cup season with a second-place finish in Sunday's men's 15-kilometre pursuit.

Cross-country skiing star Alex Harvey headlines Canada's 11-member Olympic team heading to Pyeongchang, South Korea. Canada last reached a cross-country podium at the Winter Games in 2006.

Canadian Alex Harvey continued his strong season with a silver-medal performance in the 15-kilometre mass start free in Seefeld, Austria on Sunday.

Alex Harvey finished eighth on Saturday in a skate-ski sprint race that marked his return to the World Cup cross-country circuit.

Norwegian cross-country skier Petter Northug, who won two gold medals, silver and bronze at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, has failed to qualify for next month's Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Alex Harvey is heading to the Olympics in Pyeongchang with renewed confidence, coming off a spectacular 2016-17 cross-country season that demonstrated just how much he has rebounded from a disastrous 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

Alex Harvey made history on Sunday, becoming the first non-European to reach the overall podium of the Tour de Ski.

Alex Harvey turned in a season-best third-place finish in the sixth stage of the Tour de Ski held in Val di Fiemme, Italy, on Saturday.

A broken pole and brutal race conditions weren’t enough to keep Canadian Alex Harvey from his second-straight top-five finish on the Tour de Ski in Oberstdorf, Germany on Thursday.