October 09, 2014 – Former Olympic XC skiing gold medalist Petter Northug of Norway was given a jail sentence of 50 days on Thursday after crashing his car last May while driving drunk, injuring a friend in the process. Read our coverage about the incident here – more about the ruling on Reuters here.

Northug won two gold medals at the Vancouver 2010 Games, but failed to win any hardware at latest Sochi 2014 Olympics.