Deadspin | Norway's Johannes Klaebo ties Olympic record with 8th gold medal

[ad_1] Johannes Klaebo of Norway wins the 10km interval begin free 10K males's cross nation occasion in Tesoro, Italy, on Friday on the Milan Cortina Olympics. TESERO, Italy -- Norway's Johannes Klaebo gained the lads's 10km freestyle cross-country ski race on Friday to earn his eighth Olympic title and equal the file for essentially the most gold medals on the Winter Video games.

Mathis Desloges of France gained silver, his second of the Milan Cortina Olympics, whereas Norway's Einar Hedegart gained the bronze.

The victory was the third of this Olympics for Klaebo, 29, and tied the Norwegian skier with three of his compatriots -- fellow cross-country skiers Marit Bjoergen and Bjorn Daehlie and biathlete Ole Einar Bjorndalen -- with eight gold medals general. He's scheduled to ski in three extra occasions and will take the outright lead for gold medals by a person Olympian.

"At the moment is among the hardest races we have achieved, and everybody was utterly exhausted after we crossed the end line. For me, at the moment was actually arduous. I attempted to open with management and on the finish there it was actually arduous," mentioned Klaebo, who gained his first three Olympic golds on the 2018 Pyeongchang Video games and two extra on the 2022 Beijing Video games.

"I am actually glad with being first. That is my first time successful a 10k in interval fashion."

Hedegart, a biathlete who shifted his focus to cross-country snowboarding and was thought of considered one of Klaebo's largest challengers, got here near taking victory, however misplaced steam on a climb within the closing part of the race.

He ended up in third, 14 seconds behind the winner, with Desloges 4.9 seconds adrift within the interval-style race.

"I've by no means skilled this type of dizziness. I used to be so dizzy the final two kilometers and I had nothing left within the tank, so it was simply ache and struggling," Hedegart mentioned.

"Within the final 200m I did not know if I used to be going to make it to the end line, and although it was solely downhill I used to be so scared that I might move out."

Skiers confronted one other day of heat climate, with temperatures hitting 42 levels, prompting some to forgo their tops and solely put on a race bib. These beginning earlier within the competitors had a bonus as circumstances deteriorated over the course of the race, inflicting a number of skiers to crash when taking place hills.

Course officers determined towards salting the observe to make the snow extra compact, as that they had achieved the day prior to this for the ladies's 10km freestyle occasion.