SPORTS Friday, February 23, 2018 21 Anna Gasser Germany complete produces best score in big air Pyeongchang ustria’s Anna Gasser produced the best score with a clean sweep the last jump to snatch Pyeongchang 2014 winners Norway in normal hill title as Germany the staggered start order for WinterA Olympic gold ermany completed a Pyeongchang. won the large hill team relay the cross-country relay. from Jamie Anderson clean sweep of the nordic Austria finished third in the for the first time. Germany trailed Austria by in the women’s big air in Gcombined gold medals at event, which combines cross Riessle and Frenzel also six seconds after the ski jump Pyeongchang. the Winter Olympics with a country and ski jumping, completed a clean sweep of element, but moved to the American Anderson, who won slopestyle gold, comfortable win in the large having led after the jump. the podium places behind front at the start of the 20km scored 90.00 on her first run and still led after run hill team relay. It took Germany’s gold Rydzek in the large hill event. cross country. Jan Schmid, two. Vinzenz Geiger, Fabian medal tally in Pyeongchang In nordic combined, the Espen Andersen, Jarl Magnus But Gasser, 26, then posted 96.00 to take gold, Riessle, Eric Frenzel and to a record 13. jumps recorded by all four Riiber and Jorgen Graabak with 16-year-old New Zealander Zoi Sadowski- Johannes Rydzek finished Rydzek added to his large team members translate to a claimed the silver medal for Synnott third. 52.7 seconds ahead of hill gold medal and Frenzel his points total, which determines Norway. (BBC) The two best scores of three runs were taken for the final total, with Gasser scoring 185.00 and Anna Anderson 177.25. Gasser of “I was standing up there and I knew I had the Austria silver and I was like ‘no, I’m going to go full risk,’” competes Gasser said. “I thought, ‘if it works out, then I deserve this medal’. Thankfully it worked out and it’s a dream come true.” Anderson, 27, started well, while Sadowski-Synnott managed only 65.50 in her first run at the Phoenix Snow Park. (BBC) MEDAL TABLE Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1. Norway 13 12 10 35 2. Germany 13 7 5 25 Champion Team Gemany celebrate victory during venue ceremony (Pic courtesy: Xinhua) 3. Canada 9 7 8 24 4. United States 8 7 6 21 USA takes gold in Wise defends 5. Netherlands 7 6 4 17 Ice hockey, 3-2 ski halfpipe title Pyeongchang Gisin bags combined gold merican freestyle skier David Wise held Pyeongchang his nerve to defend his Winter Olympic ski indsey Vonn failed to finish her halfpipeA title. final Olympic race as Switzerland’s Wise, 27, failed to put down a run from his LMichelle Gisin took gold in the first two efforts but scored 97.20 from his final women’s alpine combined. run in Pyeongchang. American Vonn, 33, had the fastest Compatriot Alex Ferreira, who had the best downhill time but did not complete her score of runs one and two, finished second slalom run in Pyeongchang. behind Wise with 96.40 in a repeat of last Gisin, 24, won in two minutes 20.90 month’s X Games. seconds, while American Mikaela New Zealand’s Nico Porteous, 16, scored Shiffrin, 0.97secs back, added silver to 94.80 on his second run to win an unexpected the gold she won in giant slalom. bronze. Switzerland’s Wendy Holdener won That was only the third medal New Zealand bronze after claiming silver in the slalom. have won in the Winter Olympics and came Michelle Gisin of Vonn was quickest in her favoured USA players celebrate scoring a goal (Pic courtesy: Xinhua) just a couple of hours after Zoi Sadowski- Switzerland celebrates after downhill, in which she won gold in Pyeongchang Synnott, also 16, won their second with a ladies’ alpine combined 2010 and bronze earlier this week, so he United States beat Canada 3-2 in a sudden-death shootout bronze in the women’s big air. slalom of alpine skiing was last to go in the slalom. to win Winter Olympics gold in the women’s ice hockey for Porteous’ score early in run two put him theT first time in 20 years. in front of Ferreira but the American, The scores were level at 2-2 after five penalty shots each, 23, went back into gold- Myhrer claims slalom gold but USA’s Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson scored past Shannon medal position Pyeongchang Szabados before Maddie Rooney saved from Canada’s Meghan with a score of weden’s Andre Myhrer says “old boys can still do some fast times” after Agosta. 96.00. he claimed slalom gold aged 35 at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Canada won gold at the previous four Olympics, including (BBC) S Myhrer beat Switzerland’s Ramon Zenhaeusern by 0.34 seconds, victories over USA in the 2002, 2010 and 2014 finals. while Austria’s Michael Matt took bronze. The game had ended 2-2 after overtime. Pre-race favourite Marcel Hirscher crashed on the first run. Hillary Knight opened the scoring for USA but Haley Irwin Myhrer is the oldest man to win an Olympic slalom medal, and Marie-Philip Poulin put Canada ahead before Monique breaking the record Mario Matt - Michael’s brother - set in 2014. Lamoureux-Morando took the match into overtime in Myhrer, who buys himself a guitar after winning a race, Pyeongchang. said he had been training “his whole life” for a USA beat Canada in the first women’s ice hockey Winter David Wise of the United States celebrates with his family moment like this. “I’m not sure what the Olympic Olympic final in 1998. (BBC) (Pic courtesy: Xinhua) gold is worth in guitars,” he said. (BBC).