Alexey Chervotkin skied away early as the Russia team won Olympic gold in the men’s cross-country skiing relay for the first time in 42 years in impressive fashion on Sunday. Chervotkin, skiathlon winner and 10-kilometre silver medallist Alexander Bolshunov, skiathlon silver medallist Denis Spitsov and Sergey Ustiugov won the 4x10km race held in driving snowfall. Russia had last won the presigious race, then as the Soviet Union, 1980 in Lake Placid. World champions and 2018 gold medallists Norway recovered from a slow start to get silver, fighting off France who took bronze as in 2014 and 2018…