Austria wins gold in First Olympic men’s super team ski jump
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Day 14 from Milan Cortina will see six more Winter Olympics gold medals awarded. It starts with freeski women’s ski cross and men’s aerials, before the men’s halfpipe competition concludes later. More medals will be handed out in speedskating too,
Ski jumping left a distinct mark on the Milano Cortina Winter Games, with a strange sideshow, a weather-driven controversy and a series of upsets that reshaped the sport’s landscape as its Olympic programme expanded.
The 19-year-old captured two silver medals and a bronze, becoming Poland’s first ski jumper to win three medals at a single Winter Olympics. But instead of a flashy celebration, Tomasiak asked for a thanksgiving Eucharist, placing his medals on the altar in gratitude to God.
A catastrophic injury was narrowly avoided at the Winter Olympics when combined skier Ben Loomis was struck by track equipment whilst accelerating down a 370-foot ski jump ramp.
Here are some of the most unusual Winter Olympic sports in history, from ski ballet and military patrol to dog sled racing and skijoring.
Annika Belshaw's DQ came shortly after Austria's Daniel Tschofenig was disqualified for boots that were too big
Norway's Anna Odine Stroem won her second ski jumping gold medal of the Milan Cortina Games in the inaugural Olympic women's large hill event.
A hand grenade from World War II was discovered in a car park near the Winter Olympics ski-jumping venue in Predazzo and defused, Italian police said on Sunday. Experts defused the hand grenade and