#olympic-record

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1 week ago

Norway wins 17th gold medal to set Winter Olympics record

ANTERSELVA, Italy -- Johannes Dale-Skjevdal was the only biathlete to hit all 20 targets in the 15-kilometer mass start race Friday and skied his way to Norway's 17th gold medal of the Milan Cortina Olympics -- breaking the record for the most golds won by a nation at a single Winter Games. Norway had set the record at the 2022 Beijing Olympics with 16 gold medals.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Femke Kok dominates 500m speed skating to end Jackson's hopes of retaining Olympic title

On Sunday evening, she performed like an athlete insistent on leaving no room for doubt. Kok leveraged two years of total sprint dominance into the first Olympic gold medal of her career. She blew away the field in the women's 500m in an Olympic-record time of 36.49sec with the kind of controlled, furious circuit that has made her a three-time world champion at the distance at 25 years old.
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1 week ago
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Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo wins 9th Olympic gold medal in cross-country skiing

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1 week ago
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Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo wins 9th Olympic gold medal in cross-country skiing

fromLos Angeles Times
1 week ago

Jordan Stolz wins 500 meters for his second speedskating gold of Winter Olympics

The 21-year-old speedskating star won his second Olympic medal of the Milan-Cortina Games, setting an Olympic record in the 500 meters on Saturday at 33.77 seconds. He edged out the Nedtherlands' Jenning de Boo, who was paired with Stolz and finished 0.11 seconds behind the U.S. star. Canada's Laurent Debreuril took bronze at 34.26 seconds, which also stood as the Olympic record for three pairs before Stolz blazed through Milano Speed Skating Stadium.
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fromSnowBrains
2 weeks ago

Austrian Snowboarder Benjamin Karl Becomes Oldest Gold Medalist at 40 While Team USA Takes Gold in Figure Skating - SnowBrains

Benjamin Karl became the oldest individual Winter Olympic gold medalist at 40 years and 115 days by defending the parallel giant slalom title.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Jutta Leerdam's ruthless brilliance leaves speed skating in awe and Jake Paul in tears

Jutta Leerdam won Olympic gold in the women's 1000m in 1:12.31, setting a new Olympic record and leading a Dutch one-two finish.
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