Canadian skier Alex Harvey won the men’s 50-kilometer freestyle cross-country ski race at the Nordic world championships Sunday. Harvey timed his final attack perfectly, taking the lead on the last corner and holding off Russian Sergei Ustyugov in the final sprint to win by 0.6 seconds.
Category: Olympic Cross-Country
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the remarks during a meeting with his South African counterpart Maite Nkoana-Mashabane Sunday in Beijing. China’s central bank made a net cash injection via open market operations for the third consecutive day Monday in an effort to ease a cash strain.
Canada wins second cross-country medal of the weekend, bronze in relay
Canada earned a bronze medal in the men’s 4×7.5 kilometre relay on Sunday, the first time in the history of the program that Canada has reached the podium in a men’s World Cup cross-country ski relay. Devon Kershaw of Sudbury, Ont., Alex Harvey of Saint Ferreol-les-Neiges, Que., Toronto’s Len Valjas and 24-year-old World Cup rookie, Knute Johnsgaard of Whitehorse to clocked a bronze-medal time of one hour six minutes 48 seconds to take third.