An American man has only placed that high at an Olympic cross-country race once, when Bill Koch won a silver medal in 1976.
That was the year Gerald Ford was president, Steve Jobs helped found Apple and the original “Rocky” movie was playing in theaters.
Alaska cross-country skier Scott Patterson poses for a photo at the Wednesday, February 9 ceremony where his U.S. Ski Team teammate Jessie Diggins was awarded a bronze medal for her third-place finish in the skate sprint at the Beijing Olympic Games. Patterson stayed out of trouble and toward the front of the pack as the pace picked up, ultimately ending up in a group of leaders that included the eventual winner, Alexander Bolshunov of Russia. He held on all the way until the last lap, when Bolshunov’s pace was too tough to match.
“But I’m psyched with how it went. This is pretty special,” he said. “No fault to the organizers — I think they had a tough decision and made a decent call with it.”
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