Home joy for Olympic champ Marius Lindvik on the Holmenkollen
Marius Lindvik made it four wins out of four for Norwegian nordic athletes in Oslo on Saturday (5 March) by taking the large hill World Cup contest.
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Therese Johaug ends career with home World Cup win in Oslo
Therese Johaug ended her career with victory on the Holmenkollen on Saturday (5 March).
Therese Johaug: Six-time Olympic medallist ends career in style with World Cup 30km victory in Oslo
Six-time Olympic medallist Therese Johaug raced for the final time at the World Cup 30km mass start in Oslo on Saturday, sealing the distance World Cup for a fifth time. Johaug, who won three gold medals at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and relay gold at Vancouver 2010, announced on Friday that she was to retire from the sport after the race, and she signed off in style with her 70th World Cup win.
Cross-country skiing-Norway's Johaug slides into retirement
(Reuters) - Four-times Olympic gold medallist Therese Johaug of Norway announced her retirement from cross-country skiing on Friday, ending a career in which she also amassed 14 world championship gold medals.
Therese Johaug: Norway's cross-country skier who won golds at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics announces retirement
Norwegian cross-country skier Therese Johaug, who is a four-time Olympic gold medallist, is set to retire from the sport at the end of the season. Johaug won three Olympic gold medals at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, including skiathlon gold, and also won relay gold at Vancouver 2010. She is a 14-time world champion.
Home win for Finland's Niskanen on day two in Lahti
Finland's Iivo Niskanen claimed a brilliant home win in the 15km men's race in Lahti at the latest stop in the Cross-Country World Cup.The three-time Olympic champion claimed top spot with a time of 33:6.05, as he managed to hold off a comeback from Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, who crossed the line 17.6sec later.William Poromaa became the first man from Sweden to get on a cross-country World Cup podium this season by finishing third, narrowly missing out on silver as he clocked in 0.4 seconds behind Klaebo.But it was Niskanen who claimed glory in his home race, and moved up to third in the overall standings.«To be racing among such a packed stadium and crowds out in the woods was an incredible feeling,» he said after the win.Meanwhile, in the women's 10km race Norwegian Therese Johaug took top spot on the podium.Fresh from picking up a trio of gold medals in Beijing 2022, Johaug edged out Russia's Natalia Nepryaeva to the finish line by 1.2 seconds, setting the fastest time in all three sectors of the race.The home crowd were still given cause to celebrate in the women's race as Krista Pärmäkoski claimed the bronze medal.Despite having to settle for silver the result means Nepryaeva still extends her lead atop the overall standings, now on 973 points, 278 clear of her nearest challenger the American Jessie Diggins.Sportsbeat 2022 Ad/> Beijing 2022Lindholm reveals 'unbearable pain' from frozen penis21/02/2022 AT 16:51 /> Beijing 2022Diggins claims ‘glorious’ silver, immediately collapses in dramatic finish20/02/2022 AT 09:02 Beijing 2022Johaug overcomes wild weather to emerge with third gold of Beijing 2022 in brutal 30km mass start20/02/2022 AT 05:23
Las estrellas de Pekín: Queralt brilla en una constelación única
El mejor entre los mejores, dentro de una Noruega que ha vuelto a dominar el medallero de forma incontestable. Su forma de competir es vibrante. Una fuerza de la naturaleza que, con una potencia salvaje encima de los esquís, disipa su torpeza en los momentos más delicados, apuntando con la carabina. “Quiero ser como Martin Forcaude”, ha confesado en varias ocasiones. Dentro del olimpismo, ya le ha superado: ocho preseas para el rey vikingo por siete de la leyenda francesa.
Jessie Diggins takes third Olympic medal - "I've finished with nothing left"
Jessie Diggins enhanced her legacy as USA's greatest cross-country skier with silver in the 30km mass start free at Beijing 2022 on Sunday.