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Team USA’s Ben Ogden won silver medal in the cross-country sprint on Tuesday at Winter Olympic Games in Italy.
US Ski Team he said Ogden is the first American to win an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing since Bill Koch in 1976.
Ogden finished 0.8 seconds behind Norway’s Johannes Hoesflot Klaeb, who cruised to his second win and his seventh Olympic gold medal.
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The 29-year-old Norwegian star broke away from the field with a punishing late run up the hill to finish in 3 minutes, 39.8 seconds, easing into the home stretch. Another Norwegian, Oskar Opstad Vike, took third place, 6.8 seconds behind the leader.
Linn Svahn led Sweden to victory in the women’s event, beating defending Olympic champion Jonna Sundling with Maja Dahlqvist in third in a race watched by Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf.
Top ranked Jessie Diggins of the United States was eliminated in the quarterfinals, compounding her disappointment after falling in her opening race of the weekend.
Klaebo’s seven gold medals are one shy of the Olympic cross-country skiing record.
