Nöckler and Pellegrino come away empty-handed

The 29-year-old veteran from Bruneck and the sprint silver medalist from the Aosta Valley started the competition as hot contenders for the podium, having won the only World Cup competition in this discipline this season. However, they were already lagging behind the requirements in the semi-finals when they only recorded the eighth-best running time.

In the eagerly awaited finale, the two “Azzurri” followed on the heels of the leaders. In his second outing, Nöckler lost a bit of contact with the front runners, but Pellegrino plugged the hole and handed over to his teammate in a promising position. As a result, the top teams noticeably increased the pace. Nöckler was able to keep up for a long time, but finally had to give up. He came into the transition zone in fifth place, where Pellegrino was waiting. He threw everything into the balance again, but nothing was possible.

Conclusion: Neither Nöckler nor Pellegrino had their best day, so the medals were out of reach in the end.

Norway's show of force The podium places were made up of other nations - especially the Norwegians and their new cross-country ski king Johannes Hösflot Kläbo, who already won his third gold medal in South Korea. Together with his extremely strong partner Martin Johnsrud Sundby, he won in a confident manner ahead of Denis Spitsov and Alexander Bolshunov from Russia and the French Maurice Manificat and Richard Jouve, who relegated Sweden to fourth place.

For Norway it is the sixth Olympic victory in cross-country skiing. No nation has ever achieved this. Kläbo still has the chance to become the first cross-country skier to win gold four times at the same Winter Olympics. On Tuesday last week, the 21-year-old became the youngest cross-country skiing Olympic champion in history. On Saturday the men's 50 km mass start in classic style takes place (6.00:XNUMX a.m. CET).

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Nöckler and Pellegrino come away empty-handed

Nothing came of the hoped-for precious metal. Dietmar Nöckler and his teammate Federico Pellegrino did not make it to the podium in the cross-country team competition.

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