Norway's Joergen Graabak wins Olympic Nordic combined gold

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Joergen Graabak of Norway won Olympic gold in Nordic combined Tuesday, rallying from a deficit of 2 minutes, 7 seconds to cross the finish line first in a 10K cross-country race after placing 12th in ski jumping.

Graabak became the first two-time Nordic combined Olympic champion on the large hill after winning the event in 2014.

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Norwegian teammate Jens Luraas Oftebro won silver, finishing four-tenths of a second behind. Akito Watabe of Japan earned bronze.

Norway's Joergen Graabak celebrates a gold medal finish ahead of bronze medal finisher Japan's Akito Watabe, left, during the cross-country skiing portion of the individual Gundersen large hill/10km competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China.  (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Norwegian superstar Jarl Magnus Riiber, coming out of isolation after testing positive for COVID-19, jumped 142 meters (466 feet) and had 139.8 points in the first phase of the competition. The impressive jump gave him a 44-second lead in the cross-country race.

The three-time world champion built a lead of one minute before making a costly mistake. Riiber made a wrong turn after a few minutes and that miscue cut his cushion to fewer than 10 seconds at the 2.5K mark.

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Riiber wasn’t as familiar with the course as his competitors after being in isolation for more than 10 days. The Norwegian faded late in the race and finished eighth.

Top-ranked Johannes Lamparter of Austria had a slim lead at the 7.5K mark but ended up in sixth.

Vinzenz Geiger of Germany won the Nordic combined event last week, rallying