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BEIJING (AP) — Anna Gasser hardly felt like the favorite in Beijing, even as the only woman to ever win an Olympic snowboarding big air contest. The way her competition — with an average age of 21 — has been pushing the sport's boundaries, the 30-year-old from Austria wasn't even sure that her best would be good enough for the podium. “This one is more emotional to me, because it's so unexpected,” she said.
BEIJING (AP) — In the topsy-turvy world of short track speedskating, the Liu brothers are keeping steady and piling up Olympic medals. Liu Shaoang of Hungary won the 500 meters on Sunday for his third medal in Beijing and his country's first-ever individual gold at a Winter Games. Older brother Liu Shaolin Sandor got knocked out in the early rounds, but he has a bronze from the mixed team relay. “I just suggested to my brother, ‘Don’t worry, we can definitely win another gold medal together,’" Liu Shaoang said.
BEIJING (AP) — Blizzard conditions that made visibility nearly impossible. Overwhelming expectations. An early error that would have thrown a lesser skier off course. Then a 75-minute delay while he was holding the lead midway through the Olympic giant slalom. Marco Odermatt dealt with all that and more en route to a hard-earned gold medal on Sunday at the Beijing Games that cemented his status as The Next Big Thing in Alpine skiing.
BEIJING (AP) — When Mikaela Shiffrin was getting set to head to the athletes’ lounge after her third event of the Beijing Olympics, she spotted her boyfriend, Norwegian racer Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, who was there to watch her compete.
BEIJING (AP) — The team in red, white and blue now has the easiest path to gold. The young United States men's hockey team held on to beat Germany 3-2 Sunday night, finishing the preliminary round unbeaten and clinching the top seed in the knockout round at the Olympics. The Americans move directly into the quarterfinals and next play the winner of the Germany-Slovakia game from the qualification round.