Olympic GamesPyeongChang 2018
Getty Images
In the men's Olympic short track relay, something historic happened: Hungary, which had never won medals outside of figure skating at the Winter Games, where it had collected two silvers and four bronzes from 1932 to 1980, won its first "white" gold.
Thursday 22 February 2018 4 minutes reading time
The protagonists of this venture were the brothers Liu Shaolin Sándor and Liu Shaoang, of Chinese father and Hungarian mother, Viktor Knoch and Csaba Burján, who in the final set the Olympic record on the distance of 5000 meters in 6'31 "971 and burned China, silver at 64 thousandths, and Canada, bronze at 311 thousandths, South Korea's hosts out of the podium.
The shortest men's race, the 500 meters, were won by the big favorite, the Chinese Wu Dajing, silver in Sochi behind Victor An, the South Korean born Russian who is on the list of Russian athletes not liked by the CIO and therefore not present in Korea, Wu, who already in the quarterfinals had filed the world record of 39 "937 of the American John Celski established on October 21, 2012 bringing him to 39" 800, in the final he further improved with the chrono of 39 "584 taking a gold expected four years, silver and bronze at 270 and 335 thousandths the South Koreans Hwang Daeheon and Lim Hyojun, the gold of 1500.
In the women's big air of snowboarding, a specialty that debuts this year at the Games for men too, gold goes to the favorite Austrian Anna Gasser, who on the two best jumps gets a total score of 185.00, silver to the American Jamie Anderson, the third Olympic medal after the two golds in the slopestyle of 2014 and ten days ago, bronze to the New Zealander Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, also 16 years old. Note that the country of kiwis had won only one medal at the Winter Games, namely the silver of Annelise Coberger in the alpine slalom of Albertville 1992 of alpine skiing, today two arrived within a few hours and two teenagers.
The three final runs of the men's freestyle halfpipe were full of tumbling crashes that also saw the outgoing champion David Wise in the first two runs but the US made a masterpiece by taking a score of 97.20 that earned him an encore the gold of Sochi, silver to the compatriot Alex Ferreira, never below 92.60 points and with a maximum of 96.40 in the third run, bronze to the 16-year-old New Zealand Nico Porteous.
Finally, the US returns to win the women's ice hockey tournament after 20 years and after four editions won by the bitter rivals of Canada, who today have had to bow to the second final in five stars and stripes, the Olympic final reserved for women it was decided for the first time to shoutout after the three periods and 20-minute overtime had ended on 2-2, 3-2 then the final score.
© ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Social media engagement
Più letti in Sport invernali
Brignone premia Gasly per la pole position a Monza: Sto decisamente bene dopo l'operazione. E domenica arriva Tomba
La bi campionessa olimpica presente anche domenica per il Gran Premio d'Italia (con il fuoriclasse bolognese che sarà ospite di Kimi Antonelli), dopo aver consegnato al francese dell'Alpine il ruotino simbolo del miglior tempo in qualifica. Le sue parole a Sky Sport.
24