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Norwegian jock Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo won golden successful the men's cross-country skiing 4 x 7.5-kilometer relay connected Sunday astatine the Milan Cortina Olympics. It was his ninth golden medal successful cross-country skiing, which is simply a caller grounds for the Winter Games.
The 29‑year‑old anchored Sunday's contention for his 4th golden of the 2026 Games.
He had shared the grounds with 3 retired Norwegian athletes, Marit Bjoergen and Bjorn Daehlie successful cross-country skiing and Ole Einar Bjoerndalen successful the biathlon. He present stands unsocial astatine the top.
Klaebo enactment successful a flawless but casual-looking race, slowing down earlier the decorativeness to question to cheering supporters earlier finishing successful 1 hour, 4 minutes and 24.5 seconds. France continued its beardown show for 2nd place, 22.2 seconds behind.
And roared connected by the location crowd, Federico Pellegrino, successful his last play for Italy, took bronze, with a 47.9-second lag.
Despite a beardown start, the United States finished sixth down Finland and Canada.
Ben Ogden, of Team USA, became the archetypal American antheral to triumph a medal successful cross-country skiing since 1976 erstwhile helium took location metallic past week in the men's sprint. Klaebo had besides won golden successful that race.
Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, of Norway, approaches the decorativeness enactment to triumph the golden medal successful the transverse state skiing men's 4 x 7.5km relay astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Evgeniy Maloletka / AP
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