Monday 12th February 2018 - Day 3
German Laura Dahlmeier completes biathlon double
Laura Dahlmeier became a double Olympic champion after winning the women's 10km pursuit in Pyeongchang.
The German biathlete, 24, had a 24-second head-start after winning the 7.5km sprint event on day one.
And she became the first woman to complete the Olympic sprint-pursuit double after winning in a time of 30 minutes 35.3 seconds.
Slovakia's Anastasiya Kuzmina was 29.4 seconds behind, beating Anais Bescond of France for the silver medal.
At last year's Biathlon World Championships, Dahlmeier won five of the six golds, plus a silver, and she claimed her first Olympic medal in the sprint.
Canada win figure skating team gold
Canada produced a dominant performance to win gold in the figure skating team event in Pyeongchang.
The Canadian team finished seven points clear at the top of the standings to win the nation's first gold of the Games and improve on their silver medal in the event in Sochi in 2014.
The Olympic Athletes from Russia team won silver and United States bronze.
Canada came first in three of the four disciplines in the final, as well as a third-place finish.
The event saw the teams, made up of one man, one woman, one pair and one ice dance couple, compete as a nation rather than individually.
Meagan Duhamel, Eric Radford, Tessa Virtue, Scott Moir, Patrick Chan, Kaetlyn Osmond and Gabrielle Daleman made up the Canadian team.
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Men's 12.5km pursuit
Martin Fourcade brushed off his biathlon sprint disappointment to become the first man to defend the 12.5km Olympic pursuit title.
The six-time biathlon World Cup winner was eighth in the 10km sprint, meaning he started with a 22.1-second deficit.
And the Frenchman, 29, went in front at the start of lap four before cruising home in 32 minutes 51.7 seconds.
Sweden's Sebastian Samuelsson was 12 seconds behind in second, with Benedikt Doll of Germany claiming bronze.
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The conditions for the women's slopestyle Olympic final were described as "too dangerous" after strong winds caused havoc in Pyeongchang.
Defending champion Jamie Anderson of the United States won gold but all of the riders fell on at least one run.
Bronze medallist Enni Rukajarvi said: "It was pretty bad. I'm happy to land my run and get a good score but I'm most happy that no one got hurt bad."
Britain's Aimee Fuller came 17th and had a heavy crash on her second run.
The event sees riders perform tricks on a series of man-made jumps, rails and boxes with a panel of judges scoring each run.
It was not a good show for women's snowboarding
Rukajarvi added: "The weather was bad and too dangerous, and I got a lot of wind in my run, so that was bad, too."
When asked whether organisers made the right call to hold the final, she said: "It wasn't. It was better in the practice, but then it got really bad, so they should have cancelled it, or moved it."
Mikael Kingsbury wins moguls gold for Canada
World number one Mikael Kingsbury held his nerve to win Olympic gold for Canada in the men's moguls.
The 25-year-old, who won silver four years ago in Sochi, scored 86.63 with an impressive run in the six-man final.
Kingsbury had dominated the sport over the past four years and his victory gave Canada their second gold at Pyeongchang.
Australian Matt Graham won silver with 82.57 while Japanese 20-year-old Daichi Hara took bronze with 82.19.
It is the third Olympics in a row that a Canadian man has won the event after Alexandre Bilodeau topped the podium in 2014 and 2010.
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Speed skating - women's 1500m
Ireen Wust became the most successful Dutch Olympian of all time as she won the women's 1500m speed skating title at the Pyeongchang Games.
It was her 10th Games medal which also meant she became the most successful Olympic speed skater.
The 31-year-old posted a time of one minute 54.35 seconds but had to wait for six more skaters to race before she could celebrate.
Japan's Miho Takagi took silver and the Netherlands' Marrit Leenstra was third.
Maren Lundby becomes only the second women's ski jumping champion
Maren Lundby became only the second Olympic champion in women's ski jumping after winning the normal hill final.
The 23-year-old Norwegian is top of the World Cup rankings and claimed the best jump of the first round in Pyeongchang.
Her leading rivals staked their claim for gold in the final round before Lundby won it with a jump of 110m.
That put her ahead of second-placed German Katharina Althaus and Japan's Sara Takanashi, who are also behind Lundby in the World Cup's top three.
Laura Dahlmeier became a double Olympic champion after winning the women's 10km pursuit in Pyeongchang.
The German biathlete, 24, had a 24-second head-start after winning the 7.5km sprint event on day one.
And she became the first woman to complete the Olympic sprint-pursuit double after winning in a time of 30 minutes 35.3 seconds.
Slovakia's Anastasiya Kuzmina was 29.4 seconds behind, beating Anais Bescond of France for the silver medal.
At last year's Biathlon World Championships, Dahlmeier won five of the six golds, plus a silver, and she claimed her first Olympic medal in the sprint.
Canada win figure skating team gold
Canada produced a dominant performance to win gold in the figure skating team event in Pyeongchang.
The Canadian team finished seven points clear at the top of the standings to win the nation's first gold of the Games and improve on their silver medal in the event in Sochi in 2014.
The Olympic Athletes from Russia team won silver and United States bronze.
Canada came first in three of the four disciplines in the final, as well as a third-place finish.
The event saw the teams, made up of one man, one woman, one pair and one ice dance couple, compete as a nation rather than individually.
Meagan Duhamel, Eric Radford, Tessa Virtue, Scott Moir, Patrick Chan, Kaetlyn Osmond and Gabrielle Daleman made up the Canadian team.
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Men's 12.5km pursuit
Martin Fourcade brushed off his biathlon sprint disappointment to become the first man to defend the 12.5km Olympic pursuit title.
The six-time biathlon World Cup winner was eighth in the 10km sprint, meaning he started with a 22.1-second deficit.
And the Frenchman, 29, went in front at the start of lap four before cruising home in 32 minutes 51.7 seconds.
Sweden's Sebastian Samuelsson was 12 seconds behind in second, with Benedikt Doll of Germany claiming bronze.
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The conditions for the women's slopestyle Olympic final were described as "too dangerous" after strong winds caused havoc in Pyeongchang.
Defending champion Jamie Anderson of the United States won gold but all of the riders fell on at least one run.
Bronze medallist Enni Rukajarvi said: "It was pretty bad. I'm happy to land my run and get a good score but I'm most happy that no one got hurt bad."
Britain's Aimee Fuller came 17th and had a heavy crash on her second run.
The event sees riders perform tricks on a series of man-made jumps, rails and boxes with a panel of judges scoring each run.
It was not a good show for women's snowboarding
Rukajarvi added: "The weather was bad and too dangerous, and I got a lot of wind in my run, so that was bad, too."
When asked whether organisers made the right call to hold the final, she said: "It wasn't. It was better in the practice, but then it got really bad, so they should have cancelled it, or moved it."
Mikael Kingsbury wins moguls gold for Canada
World number one Mikael Kingsbury held his nerve to win Olympic gold for Canada in the men's moguls.
The 25-year-old, who won silver four years ago in Sochi, scored 86.63 with an impressive run in the six-man final.
Kingsbury had dominated the sport over the past four years and his victory gave Canada their second gold at Pyeongchang.
Australian Matt Graham won silver with 82.57 while Japanese 20-year-old Daichi Hara took bronze with 82.19.
It is the third Olympics in a row that a Canadian man has won the event after Alexandre Bilodeau topped the podium in 2014 and 2010.
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Speed skating - women's 1500m
Ireen Wust became the most successful Dutch Olympian of all time as she won the women's 1500m speed skating title at the Pyeongchang Games.
It was her 10th Games medal which also meant she became the most successful Olympic speed skater.
The 31-year-old posted a time of one minute 54.35 seconds but had to wait for six more skaters to race before she could celebrate.
Japan's Miho Takagi took silver and the Netherlands' Marrit Leenstra was third.
Maren Lundby becomes only the second women's ski jumping champion
Maren Lundby became only the second Olympic champion in women's ski jumping after winning the normal hill final.
The 23-year-old Norwegian is top of the World Cup rankings and claimed the best jump of the first round in Pyeongchang.
Her leading rivals staked their claim for gold in the final round before Lundby won it with a jump of 110m.
That put her ahead of second-placed German Katharina Althaus and Japan's Sara Takanashi, who are also behind Lundby in the World Cup's top three.
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