{"id":491864,"date":"2026-02-18T20:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=491864"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:23:54","slug":"hail-the-winter-olympics-king-record-breaker-strikes-gold-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=491864","title":{"rendered":"Hail the Winter Olympics king: Record-breaker strikes gold again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johannes Klaebo led Norway to victory in the men's cross-country team sprint on Thursday (AEDT) to win a record-equalling fifth gold of the Milano Cortina Games<\/a> and 10th career Olympic title, while Sweden's women extended their domination of the sport with another gold.<\/p>\n

The US men's team won silver, their second of these Games, which ended a 50-year medal drought, while Italy took bronze.<\/p>\n

On the women's side, Switzerland took silver and Germany bronze.<\/p>\n

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Klaebo's victory, which he clinched alongside teammate Einar Hedegart, ties him with US speedskater Eric Heiden's record five golds at a single Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n

\"Johannes<\/p>\n

\ufeffHe had already surpassed the record for most golds in Winter Olympic history with his win in the men's relay.<\/p>\n

He now has the most Olympic titles ever behind US swimming legend Michael Phelps.<\/p>\n

"It's crazy. It's hard to find words for it. It feels unreal actually," Klaebo said.<\/p>\n

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France were podium contenders ahead of the race but suffered a series of setbacks after three-time silver medallist Mathis Desloges broke his ski poles twice, leaving the team in 12th place.<\/p>\n

Norway held a commanding lead for most of the contest, leaving Gus Schumacher from the US and Italian Federico Pellegrino to battle it out for silver.<\/p>\n

\"'It's<\/p>\n

Schumacher put on a strong chase against Klaebo up a final hill, but ultimately finished 1.37 seconds behind.<\/p>\n

"You make a plan for the tactics. The one tactical plan we made today was a bad one, so we had to improvise from there," he said after the race while standing with teammate Ben Ogden, who won a silver in the classic sprint earlier in the Games.<\/p>\n

"That wasn't tactics, that was just legs baby!" Schumacher said in jest about his charge uphill.<\/p>\n

Italy's bronze is the second for Pellegrino, who was also third in the men's relay in his final Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Johannes Klaebo led Norway to victory in the men's cross-country team sprint on Thursday (AEDT) to win a record-equalling fifth gold of the Milano Cortina […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":491866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491869,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491864\/revisions\/491869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/491866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}