{"id":580150,"date":"2026-02-10T15:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/580150\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:43:11","slug":"ben-ogden-ends-united-states-50-year-medal-drought-in-cross-country-with-silver-in-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/580150\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Ogden ends United States&#8217; 50-year medal drought in cross-country with silver in sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ben Ogden<\/strong> won silver in the men&#8217;s cross-country skiing sprint Tuesday at the Milan Cortina Olympics, becoming just the second U.S. man ever to win an Olympic cross-country skiing medal and the first in 50 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill Koch<\/strong>, a fellow Vermonter, won silver in the 50k classic at the Innsbruck 1976 Winter Games. Ogden actually grew up in the Bill Koch Youth Ski League and has skied with Koch.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With his fantastic classic technique, Ogden surged to silver with a time of three minutes and 40 seconds. Norwegian <strong>Johannes Hoesflot<\/strong> <strong>Klaebo <\/strong>won his seventh Olympic gold medal with a time of three minutes and 39 seconds, and his teammate <strong>Oskar Opstad Vike<\/strong> won bronze in his Olympic debut.<\/p>\n<p>From the start, Ogden was on fire and set the second fastest time in qualifications. In the quarterfinals, Klaebo utilized his energy-saving strategy. In another heat, Ogden surged from second to first by hitting the gas on the incline and leaving the other skiers behind.<\/p>\n<p>In the narrowed field of the semifinals, Klaebo trailed Ogden at the start of the race before sprinting forward. Ogden and Finland&#8217;s <strong>Lauri Vuorinen<\/strong> fought for second with a photo finish giving the win to Vuorinen. Ogden advanced to the finals as the fastest &#8220;lucky loser.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Three of the American men qualified for the sprint classic. In the semifinals,<strong> JC Schoonmaker<\/strong> waited until after the climb to use the draft for a late surge, but he did make the finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Ogden won silver in the men&#8217;s cross-country skiing sprint Tuesday at the Milan Cortina Olympics, becoming just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":580151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[251728,251726,251725,51,249346,251731,251727,251730,251729,251733,50,18242,251732,129,1348,52,67,251734],"class_list":["post-580150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ben-ogden","tag-cross-country-skiing","tag-gold-medal-moments","tag-headlines","tag-jessie-diggins","tag-johanna-hagstroem","tag-johannes-hoesflot-klaebo","tag-jonna-sundling","tag-linn-svahn","tag-mens-sprint-classic","tag-news","tag-norway","tag-oskar-opstad-vike","tag-sweden","tag-team-usa","tag-top-stories","tag-united-states","tag-womens-sprint-classic"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116047105629780214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}