Russian cross-country skiers won the 4×5 km relay at the 2022 Olympics, bringing Russia its sixth medal in the discipline since the start of the Games on Saturday at the Zhangjiakou site (180 km) northwest of Beijing.
At the end of a long mano a mano between Russians and Germans, Veronika Stepanova erased the ten seconds delay at the start of the last relay to offer her second of the fortnight to the Russian Olympic Committee, Russia being officially excluded for institutional doping.
No medal for the double Norwegian Olympic champion
Behind Germany (silver), Sweden’s Jonna Sundling and Maja Dahlqvist – Olympic sprint champion and vice-champion – complete the podium.
The double Olympic champion of the 2022 Olympics, the Norwegian Therese Johaug, crowned in skiathlon and 10 km classiccould not do better than fifth, about thirty seconds from the lead.
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The first torchbearer of “Team Norge” Tiril Udnes Weng fell after just over three kilometers and lost a dozen more seconds on the lead, quickly obscuring the horizon of a grand slam in distance for Johaug.
The French team, made up of Léna Quintin, Delphine Claudel, Flora Dolci and Mélissa Gal, for its part, failed to do better than a 12e place, between Japan and the Czech Republic, 5’22”9 behind the Russians
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