“With 2.5km left, I put myself in the fight for a medal but I think I went too fast because the last two hills were so hard. I lost a ridiculous amount of time.<\/p>\n
“I was never going to be in the fight for a medal, but I probably should have got that fourth spot. But there isn’t a massive difference to sixth, without a medal.<\/p>\n
“It was good, but I was still beaten by too many Norwegians.”<\/p>\n
Musgrave, who relocated to Norway 17 years ago, was seventh in the skiathlon in 2018 – until now Team GB’s best result in the sport.<\/p>\n
And as well as setting a new mark here, he is now only behind fellow Scot Mike Dixon – who competed in cross-country skiing and biathlon between 1984 and 2002 – when it comes to Games appearances for GB. <\/p>\n
“Where I come from, we can do a bit of skiing occasionally,” Musgrave said. “But it’s not the same as being in Scandinavia or the Alps. <\/p>\n
“So I don’t think we’re going to be the world’s biggest ski nation. But we’ve definitely put ourselves on the map as a cross-country nation and shown we can compete.”<\/p>\n
Fellow Scot James Clugnet was also in the same race and finished 34th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“With 2.5km left, I put myself in the fight for a medal but I think I went too…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-296425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}