Dog crashes women's Olympic team sprint race, crosses finish line in chaotic moment

The finishers successful the Olympic women’s squad sprint cross-country contention successful Tesero connected Wednesday did not conscionable see humans, but a canine too.

As the past fewer athletes wrapped up their race, a canine wandered onto the people and sprinted crossed the decorativeness enactment with them, overmuch to the delight of the crowd. The canine initially took successful the country arsenic it entered the people and lone took disconnected toward the decorativeness enactment erstwhile it noticed the racers.

The dog's sanction is Nazgul, and his owners are related to an lawsuit official, according to NPR. Nazgul is simply a 2-year-old Czechoslovakian wolfdog.

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A canine wanders connected the skis way during the women’s squad cross-country escaped sprint qualification lawsuit of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine the Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium successful Lago di Tesero, Val di Fiemme, Italy. Feb. 18, 2026. (Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP via Getty Images)

"He was crying this greeting much than mean due to the fact that helium was seeing america leaving — and I deliberation helium conscionable wanted to travel us," the owners, who were granted anonymity, told NPR. "He ever looks for people."

Nazgul’s astonishment quality did not look to person immoderate large effect connected the contention arsenic the apical medal contenders had already crossed the decorativeness line. The timekeepers adjacent captured a representation of the canine crossing the decorativeness line.

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In this representation taken from video provided by Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), a canine runs onto the way adjacent the decorativeness during the heats of the women’s cross-country skiing squad sprint escaped astatine the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games successful Tesero, Italy. Feb. 18, 2026. (Olympic Broadcasting Services via AP)

While Nazgul’s quality connected the way did not person a large interaction connected the race, it did person an interaction connected the racers’ intelligence state.

"I was like, 'Am I hallucinating?'" Croatian skier Tena Hadzic said, according to NPR. "I don't cognize what I should do, due to the fact that possibly helium could onslaught me, wound me."

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A canine wanders connected the skis way during the women’s squad cross-country escaped sprint qualification lawsuit of the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games astatine the Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium successful Lago di Tesero, Val di Fiemme, Italy. Feb. 18, 2026. (Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP via Getty Images)

Hadzic did accidental that she apt mislaid a fewer seconds due to the fact that she was truthful thrown disconnected but said it wasn’t that large of a woody due to the fact that she wasn’t successful medal contention.

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