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Europe's dominance continues unabated in Milano Cortina 2026
While Norway added three more golds to its tally, Germany took its gold count to three by winning the women’s luge event through Julia Taubitz.
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Prabhjot Paul Singh - Wed, 11, Feb 2026
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Milano Cortina 2026. / Milano Cortina
Europeans continued to dominate at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Games on Day 4 as cross-country skiing legend Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo claimed a second gold of the Games with a dominant performance in the men’s sprint classic.
With Norwegian dominance prevailing at the Games, Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo got his seventh Olympic title, besting Team USA's ecstatic Ben Ogden, who won silver, his first Olympic medal and the first medal for a male U.S. cross-country skier since 1976.
Oskar Opstad Vike claimed a second medal for Norway, winning bronze, a first Olympic medal for the thrilled 22-year-old.
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While Norway added three more golds to its tally, Germany took its gold count to three by winning the women’s luge event through Julia Taubitz. The men’s individual luge gold is already with Germany.
By winning the women’s team combined gold, Austria also swelled its gold count to two. The hosts, Italy, too, added a gold to double their tally by winning the short-track speed skating. It was this event that gave Canada its first silver medal.
Slovenia also joined the gold medalists’ list by claiming the top spot in the mixed team event of ski jumping, while Nika Prevc won a silver for Slovenia in women’s NH ski jumping.
Klaebo's campaign to become the most decorated men’s Olympic cross-country skier of all time has gotten off to a sensational start with two golds from two opportunities at Milano Cortina 2026.
Bjoern Daehlie holds the current record with a tally of eight, so Oslo native Klaebo needs one more to at least match his compatriot. His next opportunity comes at the men's 10km interval start free on Feb. 13.
"It was amazing," said Klaebo on winning his second gold medal of Milano Cortina 2026, having also finished first in the men's 10km + 10km skiathlon. "I was a little bit more relaxed before this race than I was before Sunday. It was good to have already done the first one so that I could relax a little bit more and enjoy it. That was exactly what I did out there today."
Vike and Ogden tried to go with Klaebo early on but were unable to keep pace with the great Norwegian's engine on the lung-busting long hill at the Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium.
Ogden, only the second U.S. men's cross-country skier to win an Olympic medal, was able to pass Vike to claim second behind the iconic winter sport legend.
"It's an unbelievable, unbelievable dream come true," said Ogden, who was supported by friends and family in the crowd who had traveled from Vermont to watch him race.
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