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Canadian Alex Harvey struggled to find the rhythm needed to be successful in a rare 30-kilometre individual start cross-country skate-ski distance race on Saturday at the World Cup in Beitostolen, Norway.

Canada's Alex Harvey finished 17th in the 15-kilometre World Cup cross country race Saturday while Norway's Sjur Roethe skied to gold.

Canada's Alex Harvey earned his first medal of the season at the cross-country World Cup event in Lillehammer, Norway, on Friday.

?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.