EXTRA Klaebo tops sprint to become youngest men's CC Olympic champion
Pyeongchang, South Korea (dpa) - Norway‘s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo attacked on the last uphill to become the youngest Olympic champion in men‘s cross-country skiing with sprint gold.Klaebo, 21, clocked 3 minutes 5.8 seconds over 1.4 kilometres as he lived up to his top billing and was the only skier to brave the freezing temperatures without a cap.The youngest men‘s winner until Tuesday was Swede Gunde Sven at age 22 in the 15km 1984.Italy‘s Federico Pellegrino beat Olympic Athlete from Russia Alexander Bolshunov by two-hundreths of a second for silver in the classic style race.dpa bag mlm