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(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.
BEIJING: Athletes paraded through Beijing's National Stadium as the Winter Paralympics opened on Friday (Mar 4) after a storm of controversy that surrounded the banning of Russian and Belarusian athletes due to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Cameron Alexander and Niels Hintermann shared downhill World Cup gold in Kvitfjell after finishing with the exact same time in Norway. Alexander, wearing bib 39, claimed Canada's first downhill World Cup triumph since Erik Guay prevailed on the same course in 2014 with a time of 1:44.42.
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.
BEIJING: Having braved bombs and gunfire, Ukraine's athletes have made it safely to Beijing ahead of the Winter Paralympics that begin on Friday (Mar 4), in what Ukrainian paralympic committee president Valeriy Sushkevych described as a miracle.
High in the mountains outside Beijing the boss of Britain’s Winter Paralympics team paused and allowed himself a deep breath.
Six medals in six Paralympic starts in endurance sport takes ironclad discipline.
Maiken Caspersen Falla claimed cross country gold on home soil while Richard Jouve also prevailed as sprint action took place in Drammen. Norwegian Falla was eliminated in the semi-finals of the Winter Olympic sprint in Beijing a few weeks ago, but rebounded with victory on home soil.