Thursday 15th February 2018 - Day 6
Gold medal events
Mikaela Shiffrin wins giant slalom gold at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
American star Mikaela Shiffrin won giant slalom gold in the first of her five events at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
The 22-year-old, who is also set to race in the super-G, downhill, combined and slalom, finished 0.39 seconds ahead of Norway's Ragnhild Mowinckel.
Shiffin is expected to challenge for four golds, more than any alpine skier has won in Olympic history.
She dropped to her knees and sobbed with joy after victory was confirmed.
Italy's Federica Brignone took bronze, almost half a second behind Shiffrin.
Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot (Germany) Figure skating: Pair skating free skating
Germany are top of the medal table and they now have another gold, their eighth of the Games.
Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot are the pair celebrating in the pair skating free skating event in the figure skating, producing a world record to take the gold.
The silver goes to Sui Wenjing and Han Cong of China, with Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford taking the bronze.
Olympic Athletes From Russia Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov were second at the start of the final performance, but they have to sit and watch on, with disappointment etched over their faces as they are only fourth. Tears from Tarasova as the scores are announced.
Aksel Lund Svindal wins downhill gold in Pyeongchang
Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal became the oldest Olympic alpine skiing champion as he held off Kjetil Jansrud to win downhill gold at the age of 35.
He finished 0.12 seconds ahead of compatriot Jansrud, with Swiss world champion Beat Feuz taking bronze in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Svindal won super-G gold at Vancouver 2010 but finished fourth when favourite for the downhill at Sochi 2014.
Pierre Vaultier (France) Snowboarding: Men's snowboard cross
He led from the start and he held off his rivals. Pierre Vaultier produces a stunning performance to take the gold.
Jarryd Hughes of Australia takes the silver, holding off a large surge from Spain's Regino Hernandez in a thrilling finish. Another Australian, Alex Pullin fails to finish as he was a faller.
Gold for Ragnhild Haga in women’s 10km cross-country
The Norwegian holds on to that top spot and gets the gold to prove it in the women’s 10km free cross-country skiing.
Sweden’s Charlotte Kalla swoops up behind her for silver. And we have a shared – or, I’m going to wager they’ll hammer out two medals – bronze for Norway’s Marit Bjoergen and Finland’s Krista Parmakoski.
Scandinavian athletes: very good at cross-country skiing, it turns out.
Hanna Oeberg wins gold for Sweden in the women's 15km individual biathlon!
After a long and nervous wait, Sweden's Hanna Oeberg is confirmed as the Olympic champion as Germany's Laura Dahlmeier is unable to topple her at the top of the leaderboard.
The 22-year-old still can't believe it.
It's silver for Slovakia's Anastasiya Kuzmina and bronze for Dahlmeier.
Oeberg went clean in the shooting with 20 out of 20. Just the two misses for Kuzmina but it proves costly as she finishes 24.7 seconds back after those two one minute penalties.
Great Britain's Amanda Lightfoot finishes 73rd out of 87, over eight minutes behind Oeberg.
She finished 71st out of 78 four years ago in Sochi on her Olympic debut.
Johannes Thingnes Bo wins 20km individual biathlon for Norway
Norway's Johannes Thingnes Bo produced a superb skiing display to win the men's Olympic 20km individual biathlon.
Bo missed two of his 20 shots in the four rounds of shooting, but did enough on the five 4km circuits to edge out Jakov Fak of Slovenia by 5.5 seconds.
Dominik Landertinger of Austria claimed the bronze, 14.2 seconds behind Bo, after matching Fak's perfect efforts in the shooting.
Defending champion martin Fourcade finished fifth after missing two shots.
Fourcade was bidding to become the first man in 46 years to defend the Olympic 20km individual biathlon title having already reclaimed his 12.5km pursuit title this week.
But Fourcade crucially missed the last two shots of his final round of shooting at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre, meaning he had two penalty minutes added to his finish time.
For former sprint, mass start and relay world champion Bo, it was his first medal in eight Olympic races having endured disappointing results in both the 10km sprint and the 12.5km pursuit in Pyeongchang.
Ted-Jan Bloemen sets Olympic record to take 10,000m gold
Canada's Ted-Jan Bloemen won 10,000m speed skating gold on his Winter Olympics debut as the Games record was broken twice in Pyeongchang.
The 31-year-old, who switched allegiance in 2015 after failing to make the Netherlands team, won in a record 12 minutes 39.77 seconds.
He finished 2.21secs ahead of Dutchman Jorrit Bergsma, who earlier broke his own record at Gangnueng Oval.
Italy's Nicola Tumolero took bronze, 14.55secs behind Bloemen.
Sven Kramer, who won the 5,000m on Sunday to earn his eighth Olympic title, was unable to add the one gold that has eluded him throughout his career.
Dominant Germany win luge relay gold to extend medal table lead
Germany claimed a third Winter Olympics luge gold medal in Pyeongchang by defending their relay title.
Women's singles champion Natalie Geisenberger laid the foundations before men's singles bronze medallist Johannes Ludwig maintained their lead.
Doubles champions Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt eventually extended the advantage to 0.355 seconds over silver medallists Canada.
Mikaela Shiffrin wins giant slalom gold at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
American star Mikaela Shiffrin won giant slalom gold in the first of her five events at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
The 22-year-old, who is also set to race in the super-G, downhill, combined and slalom, finished 0.39 seconds ahead of Norway's Ragnhild Mowinckel.
Shiffin is expected to challenge for four golds, more than any alpine skier has won in Olympic history.
She dropped to her knees and sobbed with joy after victory was confirmed.
Italy's Federica Brignone took bronze, almost half a second behind Shiffrin.
Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot (Germany) Figure skating: Pair skating free skating
Germany are top of the medal table and they now have another gold, their eighth of the Games.
Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot are the pair celebrating in the pair skating free skating event in the figure skating, producing a world record to take the gold.
The silver goes to Sui Wenjing and Han Cong of China, with Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford taking the bronze.
Olympic Athletes From Russia Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov were second at the start of the final performance, but they have to sit and watch on, with disappointment etched over their faces as they are only fourth. Tears from Tarasova as the scores are announced.
Aksel Lund Svindal wins downhill gold in Pyeongchang
Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal became the oldest Olympic alpine skiing champion as he held off Kjetil Jansrud to win downhill gold at the age of 35.
He finished 0.12 seconds ahead of compatriot Jansrud, with Swiss world champion Beat Feuz taking bronze in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Svindal won super-G gold at Vancouver 2010 but finished fourth when favourite for the downhill at Sochi 2014.
Pierre Vaultier (France) Snowboarding: Men's snowboard cross
He led from the start and he held off his rivals. Pierre Vaultier produces a stunning performance to take the gold.
Jarryd Hughes of Australia takes the silver, holding off a large surge from Spain's Regino Hernandez in a thrilling finish. Another Australian, Alex Pullin fails to finish as he was a faller.
Gold for Ragnhild Haga in women’s 10km cross-country
The Norwegian holds on to that top spot and gets the gold to prove it in the women’s 10km free cross-country skiing.
Sweden’s Charlotte Kalla swoops up behind her for silver. And we have a shared – or, I’m going to wager they’ll hammer out two medals – bronze for Norway’s Marit Bjoergen and Finland’s Krista Parmakoski.
Scandinavian athletes: very good at cross-country skiing, it turns out.
Hanna Oeberg wins gold for Sweden in the women's 15km individual biathlon!
After a long and nervous wait, Sweden's Hanna Oeberg is confirmed as the Olympic champion as Germany's Laura Dahlmeier is unable to topple her at the top of the leaderboard.
The 22-year-old still can't believe it.
It's silver for Slovakia's Anastasiya Kuzmina and bronze for Dahlmeier.
Oeberg went clean in the shooting with 20 out of 20. Just the two misses for Kuzmina but it proves costly as she finishes 24.7 seconds back after those two one minute penalties.
Great Britain's Amanda Lightfoot finishes 73rd out of 87, over eight minutes behind Oeberg.
She finished 71st out of 78 four years ago in Sochi on her Olympic debut.
Johannes Thingnes Bo wins 20km individual biathlon for Norway
Norway's Johannes Thingnes Bo produced a superb skiing display to win the men's Olympic 20km individual biathlon.
Bo missed two of his 20 shots in the four rounds of shooting, but did enough on the five 4km circuits to edge out Jakov Fak of Slovenia by 5.5 seconds.
Dominik Landertinger of Austria claimed the bronze, 14.2 seconds behind Bo, after matching Fak's perfect efforts in the shooting.
Defending champion martin Fourcade finished fifth after missing two shots.
Fourcade was bidding to become the first man in 46 years to defend the Olympic 20km individual biathlon title having already reclaimed his 12.5km pursuit title this week.
But Fourcade crucially missed the last two shots of his final round of shooting at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre, meaning he had two penalty minutes added to his finish time.
For former sprint, mass start and relay world champion Bo, it was his first medal in eight Olympic races having endured disappointing results in both the 10km sprint and the 12.5km pursuit in Pyeongchang.
Ted-Jan Bloemen sets Olympic record to take 10,000m gold
Canada's Ted-Jan Bloemen won 10,000m speed skating gold on his Winter Olympics debut as the Games record was broken twice in Pyeongchang.
The 31-year-old, who switched allegiance in 2015 after failing to make the Netherlands team, won in a record 12 minutes 39.77 seconds.
He finished 2.21secs ahead of Dutchman Jorrit Bergsma, who earlier broke his own record at Gangnueng Oval.
Italy's Nicola Tumolero took bronze, 14.55secs behind Bloemen.
Sven Kramer, who won the 5,000m on Sunday to earn his eighth Olympic title, was unable to add the one gold that has eluded him throughout his career.
Dominant Germany win luge relay gold to extend medal table lead
Germany claimed a third Winter Olympics luge gold medal in Pyeongchang by defending their relay title.
Women's singles champion Natalie Geisenberger laid the foundations before men's singles bronze medallist Johannes Ludwig maintained their lead.
Doubles champions Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt eventually extended the advantage to 0.355 seconds over silver medallists Canada.
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