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The 16-year-old unidentified runner was pronounced dead on the scene several hundred metres off the main trail used for the race course

Joseph Balko, a 15-year-old freshman runner at a Fairbanks, Alaska high school, died a day after collapsing at the finish line of a regional track meet.

A black bear and her two cubs emerged from the woods during the running portion of a triathlon in Alaska last weekend.