Maxime Germain’s expanding resume now includes a World Cup medal. Germain, the 24-year-old biathlete from Anchorage, skied the opening leg for a U.S. mixed relay team that made history Sunday with a bronze-medal performance in Otepaa, Estonia. It’s the first...
Murphy Kimball’s four-word social media post said it all. “6th in the world!!” Kimball, 19, kicked off the World Junior Championships with a world-class performance Monday, placing sixth in the men’s freestyle sprint in Lillehammer, Norway. It was a career highlight...
Cross-country skiing got off to a slushy start at the Winter Olympics with wet and wild race Saturday at Val di Fiemme, Italy. Jessie Diggins, America’s best hope for a medal, crashed in wet snow on the first lap when her ski tip “just disappeared in the slush.” She...
Sixteen-year-old Reine Soule of Anchorage didn’t mean to win every race at the Junior National biathlon championships last month in Lake Placid, N.Y. She just couldn’t help herself. And now she’s headed to the IBU Youth & Junior World Championships with the kind of...
With a frenzied crowd of 25,000 packing the stadium, Anchorage biathlete Maxime Germain and his American teammates matched the best mixed-relay finish in U.S. history. The performance came on the final weekend of competition before the Winter Olympics. The 24-year-old...
Reine Soule is our Alaska Athlete of the Week after dominating the first two days of racing at the U.S. Biathlon Junior Championships at Lake Placid, NY. The 16-year-old Service High won Monday’s 9-kilometer mass-start race by nearly a minute, missing four of her 20...
West High graduate Maxime Germain is going to the Winter Olympics, the first Alaskan to secure a spot on the 2026 U.S. Olympic team, although surely not the last. Germain, 24, will make his Olympic debut thanks to terrific early season World Cup results in Europe....
Fairbanks skier Ari Endestad turns 25 this week, and until this month more than five years had passed since he last climbed a podium as a top-three finisher in a significant cross-country ski race. He waited even longer to earn a podium finish in a SuperTour race. So...
History had its eyes on Anchorage biathlete Maxime Germain and his teammates last weekend at the season-opening World Cup races in Oestersund, Sweden. Germain was a member of the U.S. men’s relay team whose fifth-place finish Saturday was the third-best result in team...
All around the world, and all around Kincaid Park, Alaska skiers left their mark in major competitions recently: Top-20 finishes in Sweden for a pair of Alaska teens at the world championships for up-and-coming biathletes. Alaska history in Norway at the world...
Gus Schumacher grabbed the weekend’s big headlines for his medal-winning performance in a World Cup race Sunday. But other skiers from Alaska also turned in newsworthy efforts in international competitions. Tops among them was 23-year-old Maxime Germain, a West High...