BLOEMEN ENDS DUTCH DOMINANCE
Ted-Jan Bloemen of Canada won the 10,000 meters in Olympic-record time Thursday.
The Netherlands-born speedskater finished in 12 minutes, 39.77 seconds.
Defending champion Jorrit Bergsma of the Netherlands took silver in 12:41.99. Nicola Tumolero of Italy earned bronze in 12:54.32.
Dutchman Sven Kramer finished a surprising sixth. He had dominated the grueling race at every competition except the Olympics, where he has never won it.
Germany wins first-ever team luge relay.
PYEONGCHANG» Natalie Geisenberger became the first Olympian to win four luge gold medals by helping Germany win the team relay in the sport’s final event at the PyeongChang Games. Canada won the silver, giving Alex Gough her second medal in the last three days.
Austria, with Madeleine Egle, men’s gold medalist David Gleirscher and doubles sliders Peter Penz and Georg Fischler was third. The U.S. was fourth, the team of Summer Britcher, Chris Mazdzer, Matt Mortensen and Jayson Terdiman missing a medal by about one-tenth of a second.
Norwegian wins women’s 10K freestyle.
Ragnhild Haga, a 27-year-old Norwegian, didn’t just beat the rest of the field in the women’s 10-kilometer freestyle, she dusted them in the race of a lifetime to earn her first medal in her first Olympics.
Haga finished in 25 minutes, 0.5 seconds, winning the race by more than 20 seconds over the power-packed field that included silver medalist Charlotte Kalla of Sweden. Norwegian teammate Marit Bjoergen and Krista Parmakoski of Finland finished tied for third to earn bronze medals.
Fourcade falters in biathlon.
Martin Fourcade’s rare collapse on the final shoot of the 20-kilometer individual race handed Norwegian rival Johannes Thingnes Boe his first Olympic gold medal in biathlon.
Fourcade, the world’s topranked biathlete from France and already a gold medalist at the PyeongChang Games, shockingly missed his final two targets and finished fifth.
Jakov Fak of Slovenia took home silver, and Dominik Landertinger of Austria captured the bronze.
There was drama in the women’s 15-kilometer race, too.
Hanna Oeberg pulled off a shock by beating two-time gold medalist Laura Dahlmeier by hitting all 20 targets with her .22 caliber rifle and finishing in 41 minutes, 7.2 seconds.
Anastasiya Kuzmina finished second, and Dalhmeier took bronze.
Celebrating new year with gold.
Happy new year, Yun Sungbin.
On a national holiday in Korea — the start of a lunar new year — Yun became a national hero, winning gold for South Korea in men’s skeleton.
His four-run time of 3 minutes, 20.55 seconds was 1.63 seconds ahead of silver medalist Nikita Tregubov of Russia. It was the biggest victory margin in Olympic skeleton, topping 1948, when Italy’s Nino Bibbia topped Jack Heaton of the U.S. by 1.4 seconds in a six-heat race. Dom Parsons of Britain was third.
Hanyu leads after short program.
Defending champion Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan won the men’s short program with a Games-record 111.68 points.
The free skate will be Saturday morning.
Spain’s Javier Fernandez was second at 107.58. Hanyu’s countryman Shoma Uno was third at 104.17, followed by China’s Jin Boyang at 103.32.
Two-time U.S. champion Nathan Chen, a pre-Games favorite, missed on all his jumps, plummeting to 17th place.
Vincent Zhou became the first figure skater to land a quad lutz in Olympic competition when the 17-year-old American hit the four-rotation jump leading into a triple toe loop to open his short program. — The Associated Press