Racing on Feb. 12 (Korea time) at the Tesero Cross-Country Stadium in Italy, Lee placed 73rd and Han 80th in the women’s 10-kilometer interval-start freestyle.
In the interval-start format, skiers start at set time gaps and are ranked by fastest time.
Lee was 68th at the 1.8-kilometer mark but slipped back and finished in 27:35.9.
Han, who also opened in the 70s, posted 28:15.8.
Both athletes failed to finish the 10km+10km skiathlon on Feb. 7, their first race of the event. In the women’s sprint classic qualifying on Feb. 10, Lee was 70th (4:15.93) and Han 74th (4:17.62), and both were eliminated.
They were later disqualified after a banned substance was detected. Reuters reported on Feb. 11 (local time) that the International Ski and Snowboard Federation said fluorinated wax was found on their skis from the sprint classic qualifying, resulting in disqualification.
Sweden’s Frida Karlsson won gold in the 10-kilometer freestyle in 22:49.2. Sweden’s Ebba Andersson took silver in 23:35.8, and Jessica Diggins of the United States won bronze in 23:38.9.
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