NOAH TRISTER
AP Sports Writer
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – NBC can only hope the rest of cross-country skiing at the Vancouver Olympics is as exciting.
The women’s 15-kilometer pursuit will be televised Friday, and the men’s 30-kilometer pursuit will follow Saturday. Cross-country skiing doesn’t always make for riveting television, but on Wednesday it provided one of the most exciting races of the games when Nikita Kriukov edged Russian teammate Alexander Panzhinskiy in a photo finish.
At the Olympics, no sport has a monopoly on drama.
Also Friday, NBC will televise the men’s super-G, with Bode Miller trying for his second medal of these games. Miller was the world champ in that event in 2005 but at the 2006 Turin Games he slammed into a gate and failed to finish.