Olympic GamesPyeongChang 2018
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A day full of team competitions today's PyeongChang 2018 games but we begin the summary of the other races with the only individual of the day in addition to the women's downhill, the men's ski cross.
Wednesday 21 February 2018 4 minutes reading time
The gold went to the Canadian Brady Leman, never on the podium this year in the World Cup, fourth in Sochi 2014 and never won a medal at a major event, today instead he beat what was probably the bachelor of the race, the Swiss Marc Bischofberger, leader of specialty cup. The bronze went to the Russian Sergey Ridzik, fourth and last of the final the other Canadian Kevin Druru. The other co-op, Frenchman Jean-Frédéric Chapuis, ended up in the quarterfinals. The two Azzurri Stefan Thanei and Siegmar Klotz, former alpine ski athletes, who is much more related to this sport than other freestyle specialties, were immediately eliminated in the last sixteen. Leman's is the first Canadian gold in the men's ski cross.
For the speed skating the final phases of team chase were played. Among the men gold went for the first time in this race to Norway that in the final A with a time of 3'37 "32 on the distance of 3200 meters has got the best for 1" 20 on the hosts of South Korea , the bronze won the Netherlands champion outgoing and beaten in the semifinals from Norway, the tulips have skated in 3'38 "40 dominating over New Zealand, detached by 5" 14, and Sven Kramer comes to share 9 Olympic medals. First gold in this race also for Japan among women, the second in three days, the Japanese, holders of the world record, set the Olympic record on the distance of 2400 meters, two laps less than men, in 2'53 " 89, surpassing the Holland of Irene Wüst by 1 "59 that with this silver reaches 11 medals with five circles. The bronze goes to the United States in 2'59 "27, for only 45 cents in front of Canada.
Last title to account for that of the two-female bob. Germany won the gold, which returns to the highest step of the podium of this race after 12 years with Mariama Jamanka and Lisa Buckwitz, who preceded by 7 cents the American Elena Meyers Taylor and Lauren Gibbs, silver, and 44 cents canadian Kaillie Humphries, winner of the last World Cup and the last two Olympic titles, the latter with another braking, and Phylicia George. Another bronze medal of women's ice hockey went to Finland, which beat Russia 3-2. Tomorrow there will be the challenge for gold, which for the fifth time on six Olympic tournaments will be between Canada and the United States, the maple leaves are ahead 3-1 in the precedents.
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