Team USA picks up silver medal in cross-country skiing team sprint at Winter Olympics

Team USA’s cross-country skiing competitors continued to make a lasting impression at the Winter Olympics as they picked up a silver medal in the team sprint on Wednesday.

Ben Ogden and Gus Schumacher sealed the Americans’ third medal in the sport with a silver in team sprint. They duo finished behind Norway’s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo and Einar Hedegart. The U.S. crossed the line with a time of 18:30.35 just under two seconds behind Norway.

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Italy’s Elia Barp and Federico Pellegrino took home the bronze.

It’s the second medal for Ogden, who won a silver medal in the classical sprint race earlier in the Games. Schumacher performed well on the juniors circuit but Wednesday marked his first Olympic medal.

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Three medals for Team USA marked the most in cross-country skiing and could pick up a fourth in the women’s team sprint as Jessie Diggins and Julia Kern are still to perform. Diggins won a bronze medal in the 10-kilometer freestyle race.

The team sprint has largely been dominated by the Norwegian athletes. They have won gold medals in the event the last two Olympics and in 2010 in Vancouver.

Klaebo has five gold medals in this Olympics alone. He has 10 total gold medals on his resume and 13 medals overall.

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Former Nuggets coach Doug Moe dies at after cancer battle, son says

Former NBA coach Doug Moe died, his son David said on Tuesday. He was 87.

David informed multiple of the coach's friends that his father had passed away after a lengthy bout with cancer.

Longtime Denver TV personality Ron Zappolo also confirmed the passing to The Associated Press. Moe was an ABA original and gained fame over a rumpled, irreverent decade as coach of the Denver Nuggets in the 1980s.

In a tribute to Moe posted to social media, the Nuggets remembered Moe as a "a one-of-a-kind leader and person who spearheaded one of the most successful and exciting decades in Nuggets history."

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In 15 seasons as a head coach, Moe had stints with the San Antonio Spurs and Philadelphia 76ers. He never won a title — his most memorable run came in 1985 when his best Denver team fell to the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference finals. He was the NBA Coach of the Year in 1988.

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More than for wins and losses, Moe will be remembered for his motion offense and for the equally entertaining shows he put on while prowling the bench during his coaching days. His Denver teams led the league in scoring over five straight seasons in the early 1980s, and he rarely ran a set play.

The Nuggets bench, along with the 10 rows behind it, was no place for children, but within hours, Moe would be at the bar or coffee shop hanging with many of those same players he’d excoriated, often himself wondering where that foul-mouthed man on the sideline had come from.

"Sometimes I think I have a Jekyll-and-Hyde personality. I clown around a lot before and after a game, but once a game starts, my emotions just take over," Moe said in a 1983 interview with The New York Times.

Years before John Elway arrived, Moe was Denver’s biggest sports personality. Zappolo, the sportscaster, said there was a sweet teddy bear behind the game-day bluster.

"I don’t know if there’s ever been a more important sports figure in Denver, not only because of how successful he was, but how colorful he was and how kind he was," Zappolo said. "There are a lot of people walking around today who feel like they were Doug’s best friend."

Moe insisted he never wanted a head coaching job — didn’t want to work that hard — but Larry Brown coaxed him into taking a job in San Antonio. With the help of George Gervin, Moe won the division twice and made one conference final in four seasons with the Spurs.

Moe finished his head coaching career with an unsuccessful stint in Philadelphia that lasted less than a season before returning to Denver in supporting roles, including a return to the bench as George Karl’s assistant.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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