![]() She arrived at the Winter Olympics looking to win a third consecutive gold at a Games, but after crashing out of the alpine combined event, the 26-year-old suffered 60% of her career DNF's at the National Alpine Skiing Centre this month. The event tops an upsetting Olympics for Shiffrin, who on Thursday was left reeling from a third did-not-finish (DNF) at the Games. Norway took the bronze in the final alpine event of the Winter Olympics, with the US in fourth. US skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin had her dreams of winning an Olympic medal dashed on Sunday, after Norway beat Team USA in the small final of the mixed team parallel. Paula Moltzan of Team United States, left, and Maria Therese Tviberg of Team Norway ski during the Mixed Team Parallel Small Final on February 20. The Germans have dominated the sport at these Olympics, winning gold in three of the Games’ four bobsleigh events and racking up seven of the 12 bobsledding medals awarded in Beijing. The 31-year-old Friedrich is a 13-time world champion across two-man, four-man and team events, cementing his place as the most decorated pilot in bobsledding world championship history and one of the greatest of all time. He won both the two- and four-man at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics. Friedrich retained his title in the two-man on Tuesday. Justin Kripps' four-man sled from Canada won bronze, just beating a third German team led by Christoph Hafer.įriedrich's win is history making - it's the first time a driver has won the two- and four-man gold at multiple Olympics. He beat the German team led by Johannes Lochner, which took silver. (Julian Finney/Getty Images)īobsledding legend Francesco Friedrich led his four-man bobsled team to victory on Sunday, becoming the first man ever to win the double-double. Team Germany's Francesco Friedrich, Thorsten Margis, Candy Bauer and Alexander Schueller won gold in the men's 4-man bobsleigh. Slovakia earlier beat Sweden to take the bronze. It's also the last gold medal of the Beijing Games. ![]() The ROC team scored first in the game’s opening period but Finland leveled with a second period goal, sending the game to the third period tied 1-1.įinland’s Hannes Bjorninen scored the go-ahead goal for his team just 31 seconds into the third period, and the Finns held on to win the game.įinland have made regular appearances on the podium, returning home with an ice hockey medal from five of the previous seven Games, but it's the first time the team has reached the top step. ROC failed to defend their Olympic title won at Pyeongchang 2018, when the team went by the name Olympic Athletes from Russia. (Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images)įinland claimed victory in the men's ice hockey final on Sunday, beating Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) 2-1, to win their first ever men's Winter Olympics ice hockey gold medal. Team Finland defeats Team ROC to win gold in men's ice hockey final on Sunday. ![]()
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