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Almost full box for Joergen Graabak in Nordic combined at the 2022 Olympics: the Olympic champion in large hill collected Thursday a third medal in three races by winning team gold with Norway, yet deprived of its star Jarl Magnus Riiber.
The Germany of the Olympic champion in normal hill Vinzenz Geiger and Japan complete the podium of this ultimate test of this discipline combining ski jumping and cross-country skiing.
The worst place, 4th, fails Austria of Johannes Lamparter, neck and neck with the three other nations who stood in twelve seconds at the start of the 4×5 km cross-country ski race.
The young 20-year-old phenomenon therefore left the Beijing Olympics without a medal. Like the Norwegian Nordic combined star Jarl Magnus Riiber who skipped this last deadline, too close to the large hill event two days ago, in which he threw all his strength after 13 days of isolation.
Without him Team Norge, which succeeds Germany on the first step of the podium, made the difference thanks to its two medalists on Tuesday.
The Olympic vice-champion in large hill Jens Luraas Oftebro launched his last torchbearer Joergen Graabak after taking a lead of ten seconds. And the latter, medalist for the third time in these Games after gold in the large hill and silver in the normal hill, drove the point home by relegating his pursuers to almost a minute.
