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Norway’s Klaebo makes history on skis, ties all-time Winter Olympics gold record

Norway’s Klaebo makes history on skis, ties all-time Winter Olympics gold record

Friday the 13th will be remembered as a lucky day for Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo. Norway’s cross-country skiing star tied an all‑time Winter Games record by winning his eighth gold medal Friday at the Milan Cortina Olympics. The 29‑year‑old claimed victory in the men’s 10 kilometer interval‑start race, for his third gold at the 2026 games. With three races still ahead, he now shares the record with three other Norwegian athletes who have all retired: Marit Bjoergen and Bjoern Daehlie in cross-country skiing and Ole Einar Bjoerndalen in the biathlon. Klaebo said he has tried to flip the script on superstition about the supposedly ill-fated day, having proposed last year to his girlfriend, Pernille Doesvik, on June 13th — also a Friday. “I think I like Friday the 13th,” he said. “It’s a good day.” All the days in this Olympics, so far, have been good for Klaebo. The win was particularly meaningful for Klaebo because he doesn’t do as well in a race against the clock when he’s not going head-to-head with rivals. “This is …

Guns, Motorbikes, Assassins on Skis and the Wildest Race on the Olympic Slopes| Entertainment News

Guns, Motorbikes, Assassins on Skis and the Wildest Race on the Olympic Slopes| Entertainment News

The wildest race ever held in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, began with a man in a blue jacket flinging himself off the Trampolino Olimpico ski jump, dodging the bullets of a champion biathlete and ripping down the mountain and through trees while being chased by assassins on motorcycles. The most watched skiing in Cortina wasn’t at the Olympics. It was in a James Bond movie. To elude them, he skis directly onto an Olympic bobsled track. He careens down the sheet of ice at 50 miles per hour, uses one of the final turns as a launchpad, flies out of the bob run and over a ski chalet to safety. He was neither shaken nor stirred. Once again, James Bond had escaped certain death. But this time, 007 unclipped his skis and found himself at the bottom of a mountain that is now the site of the Milan Cortina Games. As the Olympics come back to Cortina, which hosted the Winter Games in 1956, the world’s best skiers are returning to slopes immortalised by another blockbuster …