{"id":65927,"date":"2026-02-10T11:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/my-needles-are-waiting-ben-ogden-credits-knitting-habit-after-cross-country-silver\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:57:32","slug":"my-needles-are-waiting-ben-ogden-credits-knitting-habit-after-cross-country-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/my-needles-are-waiting-ben-ogden-credits-knitting-habit-after-cross-country-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My needles are waiting\u2019: Ben Ogden credits knitting habit after cross-country silver"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Vermont native ends US men\u2019s 50-year medal drought<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Result continues strong showing at Milan-Cortina<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Norway\u2019s Johannes H\u00f8sflot Kl\u00e6bo wins seventh gold<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ben Ogden delivered the most significant result in US men\u2019s cross-country skiing in decades on Tuesday afternoon, winning Olympic silver in the men\u2019s sprint classic at the Milano Cortina Games to end a 50-year medal drought. And afterwards he credited the relaxation he finds in knitting.<\/p>\n<p>The mustachioed 25-year-old finished in 3min 40.61sec after surging through the final with his trademark classical technique, less than a second behind Norway\u2019s Johannes H\u00f8sflot Kl\u00e6bo, who secured the seventh Olympic gold medal of his career in 3:39.74. Kl\u00e6bo\u2019s teammate Oskar Opstad Vike took bronze after climbing from 20th in qualifying to the podium.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/10\/ben-ogden-cross-country-skiing-olympics-knitting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont native ends US men\u2019s 50-year medal drought Result continues strong showing at Milan-Cortina Norway\u2019s Johannes H\u00f8sflot Kl\u00e6bo wins seventh gold Ben Ogden delivered the most significant result in US men\u2019s cross-country skiing in decades on Tuesday afternoon, winning Olympic silver in the men\u2019s sprint classic at the Milano Cortina Games to end a 50-year &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018My needles are waiting\u2019: Ben Ogden credits knitting habit after cross-country silver\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/my-needles-are-waiting-ben-ogden-credits-knitting-habit-after-cross-country-silver\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018My needles are waiting\u2019: Ben Ogden credits knitting habit after cross-country silver\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}