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By DEREK GATOPOULOS and BRIAN MELLEY
Associated Press
Associated Press
Published: February 13, 2026 astatine 6:57 AM
Updated: February 13, 2026 astatine 7:21 AM
TESERO, Italy (AP) — Friday the 13th volition beryllium remembered arsenic a fortunate time for Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo Norway’s cross-country skiing prima won an eighth golden medal astatine the Milan Cortina Olympics Friday, tying an all‑time Winter Games record. The 29‑year‑old claimed triumph successful the men’s 10 kilometer interval‑start race, for his 3rd golden astatine the 2026 games.
Will 3 races inactive up of him, Klaebo present shares the grounds with 3 different Norwegian athletes who person each retired: Marit Bjoergen and Bjoern Daehlie successful cross-country skiing and Ole Einar Bjoerndalen successful the biathlon. Klaebo again gained captious crushed successful the last elevation and clocked 20 minutes, 36.2 seconds, showing uncommon signs of fatigue arsenic helium collapsed astatine the decorativeness enactment of the contention considered to beryllium his toughest challenge.
He was 4.9 seconds caput of Frances’s Mathis Desloges and 14 successful beforehand of his main challenger Einar Hedegart of Norway who mislaid momentum connected the past hill. —-
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