Sweden's Ebba Andersson makes miraculous recovery to win silver medal after epic wipeout

No 2 Olympic medals are earned the aforesaid way.

Sweden had a accidental to unafraid a golden medal successful the women’s 4 x 7.5 km relay, but Ebba Andersson crashed hard and flipped over. When Andersson got up, she realized she had mislaid her close skis and couldn’t enactment it backmost on.

She past plodded on with 1 ski, carrying the different nether her arm, portion waiting for Sweden’s skis technician to scope her with a caller ski. The hectic country unfolded arsenic Andersson was attempting to support Sweden's spot connected the podium. 

Making matters worse, the skis technician, portion moving to drawback up with Andersson, besides fell successful the snowfall to hold them adjacent further.

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Ebba Andersson tags teammate Frida Karlsson, right, during the cross-country skiing women’s 4x7.5 km relay astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics. Tesero, Italy, connected Feb. 14, 2026. (Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo)

"She’s fallen again," BBC commentator Rob Walker said arsenic the mishap occurred, via the New York Post. "An implicit catastrophe – and she’s mislaid a ski. She’s doing her level champion to drawback it up."

"What a nightmare this has turned retired to beryllium for the Swede. It’s each been going truthful good truthful far. Frida Karlsson (Andersson’s teammate) tin hardly bring herself to look."

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Frida Karlsson walks disconnected the people aft completing her limb of the cross-country skiing women’s 4x7.5 km relay astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics. Tesero, Italy, connected Feb. 14, 2026. (Matthias Schrader/AP Photo)

"And what an effort from Andersson. She’s running. She’s moving with the skis nether her arm. Desperate to springiness Karlsson astatine slightest thing to purpose at."

The clang and consequent clip without a skis dropped Sweden to seventh, but they rallied to decorativeness successful 2nd and triumph a metallic medal. Norway bushed Sweden by 50.9 seconds, finishing with a clip of 1:15:44.8 to unafraid the golden medal.

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Heidi Weng celebrates aft winning the golden medal successful the cross-country skiing women’s 4x7.5 km relay astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics. Tesero, Italy, connected Feb. 14, 2026. (Matthias Schrader/AP Photo)

Despite recovering capable to onshore a metallic medal, Andersson was distraught astir the crash.

"My assemblage is ok, but my bosom is not," Andersson said. "I can’t blasted anyone but myself. I didn’t enactment good capable successful that moment. Then we had the worst imaginable atrocious luck with the breached ski. It was mostly panic and chaos done that full leg."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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