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02/13 06:21 CST Norway's Klaebo makes history on skis, ties all-time Winter
Olympics gold record
Norway's Klaebo makes history on skis, ties all-time Winter Olympics gold record
By DEREK GATOPOULOS and BRIAN MELLEY
Associated Press
TESERO, Italy (AP) --- Friday the 13th will be remembered as a lucky day for
Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo Norway's cross-country skiing star won an eighth gold
medal at the Milan Cortina Olympics Friday, tying an all?time Winter Games
record. The 29?year?old claimed victory in the men's 10 kilometer
interval?start race, for his third gold at the 2026 games.
Will three races still ahead of him, Klaebo now shares the record with three
other Norwegian athletes who have all retired: Marit Bjoergen and Bjoern
Daehlie in cross-country skiing and Ole Einar Bjoerndalen in the biathlon.
Klaebo again gained vital ground in the final hill and clocked 20 minutes, 36.2
seconds, showing rare signs of fatigue as he collapsed at the finish line of
the race considered to be his toughest challenge.
He was 4.9 seconds head of Frances's Mathis Desloges and 14 in front of his
main challenger Einar Hedegart of Norway who lost momentum on the last hill.
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