Hanyu figures way to repeat

Yuzuru Hanyu made Olympic figure skating history with a strong — and expected — performance in the men’s free skate in PyeongChang, South Korea.

Meanwhile, Ester Ledecka

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of the Czech Republic stunned everyone, including herself, by winning the gold in the women’s super-G.

Yesterday was a busy one at the PyeongChang Olympics, where Switzerland’s Sarah Hoefflin won the women’s slopestyle skiing event, Norway was victorious in the women’s crosscountry relay, and Slovakia’s Anastasiya Kuzmina won the women’s 12.5-kilometer mass start biathlon.

In short-track speedskating, South Korea’s Choi Minjeong got the victory in the women’s 1,500 meters, while Canada’s Samuel Girard won the men’s 1,000 meters.

In Gangneung, Hanyu became the first man to repeat as Olympic champion since Dick Button in 1952 after also winning in Sochi in 2014. He also won the 1,000th gold medal in Winter Games history.

“This is the best day of my skating life,” Hanyu said. “My tears were from my heart. I can find one word and that is ‘happy.’ ”

He held off Japanese teammate Shoma Uno and Spain’s Javier Fernandez for the victory.

Shocker in super-G

Ledecka simply couldn’t believe she was No. 1 on the videoboard standings moments after crossing the finish line in Jeongseon.

Her time of 1 minute, 21.11 seconds was just 0.01 seconds faster than Austria’s Anna Veith, the defending Olympic champion. While Veith was one of the favorites, the 22-year-old Ledecka was a low-ranked competitor who was considered a better contender for a medal in snowboarding.

She’s now an Olympic champion.

“Is this a kind of mistake?” Ledecka said when asked what immediately went through her mind. “OK, they’re going to change the time. I’m going to wait for a little bit, and you’re going to switch and (add) some more seconds.” Nope, not quite. American star Lindsey Vonn, who tied for sixth in her first event in Pyeongchang, echoed the sen- timents of Ledecka — and just about everyone else.

“Definitely shocking,” Vonn said.

Golden girl

Marit Bjoergen moved into a tie for the most career Winter Olympic medals with 13 after helping the Norwegian women to a first-place finish in the cross-country relay.

Bjoergen tied male biathlete and fellow Norwegian Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, and can move into sole possession of the record with a medal in either one of the last two women’s events: the team sprint relay Wednesday or in the mass start . . . .

At Phoenix Snow Park, Hoefflin edged teammate Mathilde Gremaud for gold by posting a score of 91.20 in her final run.

“I suppose I got pretty lucky,” Hoefflin said.

Stoch twice as nice

Defending champion Kamil Stoch won ski jumping’s large hill. The 30-yearold Polish jumper scored 285.7 points to beat normal hill gold medalist Andreas Wellinger of Germany, who took the silver . . . .

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