TESERO, Italy (AP) — A shock participant in Wednesday’s motion on the Milan Cortina Olympics had 4 legs and 0 concern for race occasions.
As elite cross-country skiers pushed to the end within the girls’s staff dash heats, a canine wandered onto the course and ran with athletes down the straightaway.
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On this picture taken from video supplied by Olympic Broadcasting Companies, OBS, a canine runs onto the observe close to the end through the heats of the cross-country snowboarding girls’s staff dash free on the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Tesero, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. (Olympic Broadcasting Companies through AP)
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On this picture taken from video supplied by Olympic Broadcasting Companies, OBS, a canine runs onto the observe close to the end through the heats of the cross-country snowboarding girls’s staff dash free on the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Tesero, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. (Olympic Broadcasting Companies through AP)
Racers stayed centered as spectators cheered on the canine intruder earlier than it crossed the end line and was restrained by venue officers.
The canine had slipped away from a neighborhood proprietor whereas out on a close-by stroll, officers later stated.
The incident got here on the identical day and the identical course the place Olympic historical past was made: Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway received his file tenth gold medal and his fifth of the Milan Cortina Video games.
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