In the 1980 Arctic Winter Games, he won a silver medal in cross-country skiing for Team Alaska. “The kids are exactly the way I remember when I was in the games in 1980,” Timm said. “They ...

More than 1,800 youth athletes from Alaska and seven areas of the circumpolar north are in Alaska this week for the Arctic Winter Games. [Previously: With streamers and fanfare, ...

Julie Martin of Palmer traded Arctic Winter Games pins that she collected while volunteering during the 1996 Chugiak/Eagle River games with Wyatt Cyre, 11, of Whitehorse on Monday, March 11, 2024 ...

The Arctic Winter Games is a biennial event celebrating the sports and culture of the people who live in the circumpolar north. Delegations from Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland and northern ...

The games feature both traditional Indigenous events and winter sports, both of which the Juneau athletes participated in. Alaska will host the 2024 Arctic Winter Games.

In this high-kicking event at the Arctic Winter Games, Ali Johnston's task was to kick a sealskin ball with a single foot. The Team Alaska competitor did so at a height of 223.5 centimetres ...

Mar. 8—PALMER — For more than 50 years, hundreds of athletes, coaches and supporters from the circumpolar north have gathered biennially to engage, compete and celebrate the culture of the Arctic.

Mar. 11—WASILLA — Amid chants for their home regions and under purple, blue and emerald streamers, more than 1,800 youth athletes from Alaska and seven areas of the circumpolar north filed ...

Members from the Canadian Antartic in Alberta and other territories, to Greenland, Finland, Swedan and Norway compete in Artic Winter Games.

He told me that the Games pulled him out of teenage depression and into his Tlingit language after feeling shame as a minority in Alaska. Now an Arctic Winter Games coach, he's a role model for ...

An athlete at the 2024 Arctic Winter Games in Mat-Su Valley, Alaska competes in a snowshoe race. Warm temperatures have some people in the games wondering if the events should be scheduled in ...