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Natasha Sortland, a Zumbrota-Mazeppa senior, finished 10th in the 10-km freestyle at the 2023 US Ski & Snowboard Junior National Cross Country Ski Championship in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Diggins, a native of Afton, Minn., was also the first U.S. woman to finish atop the World Cup season standings, in 2021.
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Organizers announced Wednesday that the Loppet Cup is tentatively set to take place Feb. 17-19, 2024, at Wirth Park in Minneapolis.
Century sophomore Soren Krych tumbled on his first of two runs in the state Alpine Ski meet at Giants Ridge. That got him disqualfied but it also whet his appetite for more the next two seasons.

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Century sophomore Soren Krych stayed poised and aggressive on Tuesday in the Section 6 Alpine Ski meet at Buck Hill. It was enough to advance him to next week's state meet.
Carla Miller has started a Rochester Ski Club scholarship fund in her son's memory following the 14-year-old's death by suicide in May.
Itascatur Outdoor Activity Club will be hosting Duluth author Ryan Rodgers on Saturday, April 2 to talk about his book, "Winter's Children," and the history of Nordic skiing.
The welcome-home party will be noon-5 p.m. April 2 in Afton’s Town Square Park, rain or shine; Diggins will arrive at 1 p.m. Afton is about 25 miles east of St. Paul.
Hundreds gathered at the ski area in Goodhue County to witness costumed skiers and snowboarders attempt to clear the pond.
The Duluth resident and her dog trudged nearly 200 miles through deep snow and extreme cold.

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The Duluth resident, with her sled dog, Diggins, hopes to reach Grand Portage by mid-March.
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Diggins, from Afton, Minnesota, now has finished in the top eight in 11 consecutive Olympic races, including all her starts in the past two Winter Games
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BEIJING — The 1.7-mile downhill course plunges through barren brown hillsides, past haggard trees and towering gray rock faces, all transformed by a coating of snow from a storm that passed through a few days earlier.

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