Sweden's Andersson gets 50km gold; Nepryaeva DQ for using wrong skis
Published on: Sunday 22 February 2026
Ebba Andersson powered to cross country skiing gold in the first ever women's Olympic 50 kilometres race on Sunday to complete an all but perfect showing for Sweden's women. Andersson started to ski away from Heidi Weng when the Norwegian fell after a ski change after almost 29km and eventually got gold with a huge margin of 2 minutes 15.
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