Victoria Carl stepped in on short notice to clich an improbable Olympic cross country team sprint gold for Germany together with Katharina Hennig on Wednesday. Carl, who had replaced Katherine Sauerbrey who had not felt 100 per cent shortly before the semi-final, wore down sprint gold medallist Jonna Sundling of Sweden on the home stretch for a stunning victory in the 6×1.5-kilometres race. World champions Sundling and Maja Dahlqvist got silver two-tenths back and the Russian relay gold medallists Natalia Nepryaeva and Yulia Stupak earned bronze, another five-tenths back. Hennig and Carl had a…