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Bjørndalen wins the Olympic gold medal in the Men’s Biathlon: Sprint event. The Norwegian’s early time of 24:33.5 minutes holds up against all competitors earning the Olympian the top spot on the podium. He also makes history with this win and becomes the most-decorated Winter Games athlete.
This victory has been a four-year job and it has been many years since I won, but life is too short to give up.
Wins Olympic silver medal
Landertinger wins the Olympic silver medal in the Men’s Biathlon: Sprint event. The Austrian races to beat the best time set by Ole Einar Bjørndalen, but falls short finishing in 24:34.8 minutes – 1.3 seconds behind first place.
I’m so happy that I win the silver medal, and for me it’s the perfect start to the Olympics
Wins Olympic bronze medal
0 0 Randy V. Randy V.2014-10-08 00:36:172014-10-08 00:36:17Wins Olympic bronze medalWins Olympic gold medal
0 0 Randy V. Randy V.2014-09-25 16:26:502014-09-25 16:26:50Wins Olympic gold medalWins Olympic silver medal
Innerhofer wins the Olympic silver medal in the Men’s Alpine Skiing: Downhill event. The Italian finishes the race with a time of 2 minutes, 6.29 seconds, just beating Kjetil Jansrud of Norway who had a time of 2 minutes, 6.33 seconds.
I’m not one of those skiers who can win the overall or the discipline title. With my health condition that wouldn’t be realistic. So I go race by race and today I had my best run of the season
Wins Olympic bronze medal
0 0 Randy V. Randy V.2014-09-25 16:26:522014-09-25 16:26:52Wins Olympic bronze medalWins Olympic bronze medal
Innerhofer wins the Olympic bronze medal in the Men’s Alpine Skiing: Combined event. The Italian puts in a combined time of 2:45.67 minutes, and is happy to have a place on the podium. He celebrates with silver medalist Ivica Kostelić and gold medalist Sandro Viletta.
At the start gate, I nearly decided not to bother because the downhill went so well for a lot of the slalom specialists. I can’t believe it, this is crazy.
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Höfl-Riesch wins the Olympic gold medal in the Women’s Alpine Skiing: Combined event. The skier is the pre-race favorite and defending Olympic champion. Though she ends her first run in 5th position, here combined time of 2:34.62 minutes is enough to secure first place.
It’s unbelievable. Of course, I was the big favorite for today, but I had some problems on the downhill course.
Wins Olympic silver medal
Hosp wins the Olympic silver medal in the Women’s Alpine Skiing: Combined event. Positioned at 8th after the downhill race, the olympian makes up some valuable time in the slalom and secures a place on the champion’s podium.
You don’t know if you’re still racing or not. I’m here and it worked and I have a medal. It’s great.
Wins Olympic bronze medal
Mancuso wins the Olympic bronze medal in the Women’s Alpine Skiing: Combined event. Though the American takes first place after the downhill race, her combined time of 2:35.15 minutes is not enough to secure silver or gold.
Slalom for me is kind of like a game of luck. Roll the dice and it’s on, or roll the dice and it’s off.
Wins Olympic gold medal
Fourcade wins the Olympic gold medal in the Men’s Biathlon: Pursuit event. Earning only one penalty throughout the race, the Olympian’s final time of 33:48.6 is good enough to secure the first place position.
It is just great, there were a lot of expectations. I wanted this for so much, I had been thinking about if for four years.
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Moravec wins the Olympic silver medal in the Men’s Biathlon: Pursuit event. Though they Olympian does not receive any penalties throughout his race, his final time of 34:02.7 minutes is not enough to secure the gold medal from France’s Martin Fourcade.
That’s amazing. Before the Olympics, I was thinking that if I can get in the top 10 it would be great from me.
Wins Olympic bronze medal
Béatrix wins the Olympic bronze medal in the Men’s Biathlon: Pursuit event. The Olympian unexpectedly joins fellow countryman Martin Fourcade on the winner’s podium, clocking in a final time of 34:12.8 mintues with one penalty.
I was really lucky in my last shooting. So many guys were missing so I could go into third place.
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Maze wins the Olympic gold medal in the Women’s Alpine Skiing: Downhill event. The Olympic skier shares the first place position with Dominque Gisin of Switzerland. Both athletes finished with a time of 1:41.57 minutes. Due to this, no silver medal was awarded in this event.
It’s hundredths that count. Maybe just one finger, maybe just a hand, could change the color of a medal.
Wins Olympic gold medal
Gisin wins the Olympic gold medal in the Women’s Alpine Skiing: Downhill event with Tina Maze of Slovenia. Both skiers put in an exact time of 1:41.57 minutes, and both placed first. No silver medal was awarded in this event.
I’m sure glad I’m going to share this gold with Tina. She’s such a great woman and one of the greatest athletes of our sport.
Wins Olympic bronze medal
0 0 Randy V. Randy V.2014-09-25 16:27:082014-09-25 16:27:08Wins Olympic bronze medalWins Olympic silver medal
Lesser wins the Olympic silver medal in the Men’s Biathlon: Individual event. His final time of 49:43.9 minutes is enough to beat out bronze medalist Evgeniy Garanichev, but 12.2 seconds behind gold medalist Martin Fourcade.
I had little hope. But I targeted a top-15 finish so it would be inappropriate not to be happy with silver now.
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Garanichev wins the Olympic bronze medal in the Men’s Biathlon: Individual event. He makes the podium with fellow Olympians Martin Fourcade and Erik Lesser with a final time of 50:06.2 minutes. President Vladimir Putin shortly posts a congratulations on the Kremlin website:
You demonstrated character and skill, deservedly went up onto the Olympic pedestal and wrote another bright page in the history of domestic and world biathlon
Wins Olympic gold medal
Viletta wins the Olympic gold medal in the Men’s Alpine Skiing: Combined event. The Swiss puts in a combined time of 2:45.20 minutes, which is enough to beat out silver medalist Ivica Kostelić of Croatia by 0.34 seconds.
I didn’t expect to win. I knew that I could ski fast. I like the snow and this was my chance.
Wins Olympic silver medal
Kostelić wins the Olympic silver medal in the Men’s Alpine Skiing: Combined event. His combined time of 2:45.45 minutes is enough to beat out Italian bronze medalist Christof Innerhofer, but falls 0.34 seconds short of gold medalist Sandro Viletta of Switzerland.
I would also like to point out one thing. This is the 10th Olympic medal in my family. Janica has six and now I have four, and I am especially proud of that fact.