{"id":66638,"date":"2026-02-18T10:57:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/very-good-dog-invades-course-but-falls-short-of-medal-glory-at-winter-olympics\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:57:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:57:38","slug":"very-good-dog-invades-course-but-falls-short-of-medal-glory-at-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/very-good-dog-invades-course-but-falls-short-of-medal-glory-at-winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Very good dog invades course but falls short of medal glory at Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Nazgul makes unexpected entry in team sprint<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Owner says two-year old looking for company<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A local dog has missed out on a historic cross-country medal at the Winter Olympics despite a lung-bursting surge in the homestretch.<\/p>\n<p>Nazgul, who according to NPR lives at a nearby hotel in Tesero, broke on to the course on Wednesday morning and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBCOlympics\/status\/2024087070617268458\">sprinted for the line<\/a> behind Croatia\u2019s Tena Hadzic as she came to the end of the qualifying race for women\u2019s team cross-country sprint. Even if he had completed the entire race, Nazgul\u2019s time would not have counted as he is male. And a dog.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/18\/dog-winter-olympics-cross-country-skiing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nazgul makes unexpected entry in team sprint Owner says two-year old looking for company A local dog has missed out on a historic cross-country medal at the Winter Olympics despite a lung-bursting surge in the homestretch. Nazgul, who according to NPR lives at a nearby hotel in Tesero, broke on to the course on Wednesday &#8230; <a title=\"Very good dog invades course but falls short of medal glory at Winter Olympics\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/very-good-dog-invades-course-but-falls-short-of-medal-glory-at-winter-olympics\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Very good dog invades course but falls short of medal glory at Winter Olympics\">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-66638","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\/66638","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=66638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}