Tongan hunk Pita Taufatofua, famous for peeling off and baring his chest at the Olympics, hoped he wouldn't ski into a tree in his Winter Games debut. He also wanted to finish before it got dark in Friday's 15-kilometre freestyle cross-country skiing in Pyeongchang.
Well, Taufatofua kept this clothes on for once and ticked both boxes, finishing 114th - almost 23 minutes behind the gold medallist, Swiss legend Dario Cologna, but crucially avoiding the wooden spoon. "I'm just happy I finished," the 34-year-old told reporters. "Relieved. I mean, that was a long race."
Certainly for Taufatofua it was long, although the dubious honour of finishing last, two spots further back, went to 43-year-old Mexican German Madrazo. Taufatofua and Morocco's Samir Azzimani (111th) waited for Madrazo at the finish line before hoisting their comrade into the air.
"I'd rather finish towards the end of the pack with all my friends than be somewhere in the middle by myself," said the Tongan beefcake, who competed in taekwondo at the 2016 Rio Games but lost in the first round. "We fought together, we finished together."
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