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Swedish skier forced to race with one ski after disastrous Olympic crash that cost gold medal
Skiing evidently becomes much harder without the actual skis. Sweden blew its chance to win gold in the women’s 4 X 7.5km relay on Saturday when Ebba Andersson fell hard and was forced to race with just one ski for roughly 30 seconds.
South Korea and Canada denied the Dutch a fifth- or sixth-straight short track gold in Milan Wednesday, topping the podium in the women's 3000m and the men's 500m, respectively.
Ski mountaineering, or “skimo,” will make its Olympic debut this week. The idea is simple: race uphill fast, then ski back down fast.
The U.S. women’s cross-country skiing 4x7.5K relay team finished in fifth place on Saturday, tying the Americans’ best finish in the event in the history of the Winter Games. Their men’s counterparts placed sixth on Sunday in the same distance relay at the Milan Cortina Games, marking their best finish since 2002.