Winter Olympics spoiler alert: Men's cross country sprint
By ARNIE STAPLETON
AP Sports Writer
Results of men's cross country sprint.
WHISTLER, British Columbia — Russia’s Nikita Kriukov edged countryman Alexander Panzhinskiy in a photo finish to win the gold medal in the men’s individual classic cross-country sprint race.
Kriukov’s winning time Wednesday was 3 minutes, 36.3 seconds. The bronze medal went to Norway’s Petter Northug, who finished a whopping 9.2 seconds later.
The Russians set a quick pace from the start, and it became a two-man race over the final third of the 1.6-kilometer competition. On one of the big turns, Alexey Poltaranin of Kazakhstan fell, taking out Norway’s Oeystein Pettersen.