Ben Ogden makes US Olympics history with silver in men's cross-country skiing

American Ben Ogden got Team USA its 3rd medal astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Ogden picked up the metallic medal successful the cross-country skiing men’s sprint classical contention with a clip of 3:40.61. He finished down Norway’s Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, who came crossed the enactment with a clip of 3:39.74. He finished up of Norway’s Oskar Opstad Vike, who had a clip of 3:46.55.

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Norway, Sweden and Finland are usually the countries that predominate cross-country skiing. Ogden’s podium decorativeness was the archetypal for an American successful the discipline. U.S. men hadn’t medaled successful immoderate cross-country skiing lawsuit since Bill Koch successful 1976.

Ogden finished successful archetypal spot successful the 2nd quarterfinal contention implicit Sweden’s Alvar Myhlback, Italy’s Federico Pellegrino and Finland’s Lauri Vuorinen. American teammate JC Schoonmaker was besides vying for a spot successful the final, but helium came up abbreviated successful his semifinal race.

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Ogden is nary alien successful the past books for American cross-country skiing. He and his teammates picked up a metallic medal astatine the 2018 Junior World Ski Championships successful Switzerland, which was the archetypal medal for the U.S. astatine the inferior worlds.

He made his Olympic debut successful 2022 successful Beijing and finished 12th successful the event. Four years later, Ogden tin present telephone himself an Olympic medalist.

For Norway’s Klæbo, helium has present taken location the golden successful the past 3 Olympics.

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