CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING

Norway won its fifth cross-country skiing gold of these games, taking the men’s 4x10-kilometer relay. The Norwegian team of Didrik Toenseth, Martin Johnsrud Sundby, Simen Hegstad Krueger and Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo won the cross-country relay in 1 hour, 33 minutes and 4.9 seconds. That was good enough to beat the second-place Russian athletes by 9.4 seconds. France took the bronze. Of the eight golds awarded in cross-country events in Pyeongchang, Norway has all but three. The Norwegians have won 11 overall medals in cross-country — two off the record set by the Soviet Union in Calgary in 1988.