After winning gold in cross-country skiing and biathlon on Saturday, Norway had pinned its Sunday title hopes on Johannes Klaebo but the three-times Olympic champion was a shadow of his usual self on a tough course at the Beijing Games.
Klaebo, 25, was one of the highlights of the Pyeongchang Olympics for the skiing-mad Norwegians, winning the individual sprint and being a key part of the team sprint and relay wins, but on Sunday he struggled to get to grips with the conditions.
"Dry snow and heavy going on the course, it was something else. I have never experienced a tougher race than today," Norwegian-born Irish skier Thomas Maloney Westgard told Reuters after a gruelling race. Klaebo did well to keep among the front group, with eventual winner Alexander Bolshunov, silver medallist Denis Spitsov and bronze-winner Iivo Niskanen in sight, but after the change to freestyle skiing he fell away and took his foot off the gas, seemingly content to finish down the field.
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