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Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo acceptable the grounds for the astir golds by 1 jock successful a azygous Winter Olympics arsenic the Norwegian prima completed his historical golden medal expanse of the men's cross-country skiing events.
Klaebo's triumph successful the 50-kilometer wide commencement contention was his sixth triumph astatine the Milan Cortina Games and shattered the astir 50-year grounds acceptable by American velocity skater Eric Heiden, who won 5 golds successful the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics.
Klaebo's teammates, Martin Loewstroem Nyenget, took silver, and Emil Iversen won bronze successful a Norwegian sweep.
The triumph extends Klaebo's grounds for astir vocation Winter Olympic golden medals to 11 implicit 3 Games. The erstwhile grounds had been eight, which Klaebo broke Feb. 15.
Klaebo has the second-most Olympic golds overall. U.S. swimming large Michael Phelps has 23.
No golden for Stolz
Jordan Stolz missed retired connected his accidental to go the archetypal antheral since 1994 to cod 3 golden medals successful agelong way speedskating astatine 1 Olympics, with the American finishing 4th successful the wide commencement down 40-year-old champion Jorrit Bergsma of the Netherlands.
Bergsma is the oldest antheral to triumph a speedskating gold, finishing up of Viktor Hald Thorup of Denmark and Italy's Andrea Giovannini.
The golden successful the women's wide commencement besides went to a Dutch skater: reigning satellite champion Marijke Groenewoud. Ivanie Blondin of Canada was the metallic medalist for the 2nd Games successful a row, followed by Mia Manganello of the U.S. with the bronze.
Golden grounds for U.S.
The United States Olympic squad won its record-breaking 11th golden medal of the Games erstwhile the trio of Kaila Kuhn, Connor Curran and Chris Lillis took the rubric successful mixed aerials.
The 11th golden breaks the country's grounds acceptable astatine the past Olympics connected U.S. ungraded — successful Salt Lake City successful 2002.
Finland crushes Slovakia for hockey bronze
Finland won the bronze medal successful men's hockey astatine the Olympics for a 3rd consecutive clip with NHL players participating, beating Slovakia 6-1.
Erik Haula scored 2 goals and Joel Armia had a extremity and 2 assists for Finland, which besides got bronze successful Sochi successful 2014 and successful Vancouver successful 2010, and near Turin successful 2006 with silver.
The U.S. faces Canada for golden connected Sunday.
Canada's curlers get golden and bronze
The Canadian men bushed Britain for golden successful curling portion the women's squad overcame its disappointment to bushed the U.S, for the bronze.
Brad Jacobs' squad defeated Bruce Mouat's all-Scottish squad 9-6 wrong Cortina's historical crystal arena to springiness curling powerhouse Canada it's lone golden of the Olympics successful the sport.
In the women's event, top-ranked Canada won 10-7 to contradict the American women their archetypal medal successful the event.
Rachel Homan's squad had been upset by Sweden successful the semifinals.
Humphries Armbruster gets Olympic mark
Kaillie Humphries Armbruster won her sixth vocation Olympic bobsled medal, tying monobob golden medalist Elana Meyers Taylor for the astir by immoderate pistillate successful the sport's history.
The American claimed bronze successful the two-woman race, down Laura Nolte — who successfully defended her rubric — and Lisa Buckwitz.
Skimo's debut continues
Emily Harrop yet got her hands connected an Olympic golden medal, combining with Thibault Anselmet to triumph the mixed relay for France arsenic portion of skis mountaineering's Olympic debut.
Harrop and Anselmet finished the Stelvio people successful a clip of 26 minutes, 57.44 seconds, holding disconnected the Swiss squad of Marianne Fatton and Jon Kistler by 11.86 seconds. Spanish racers Ana Alonso Rodriguez and Oriol Cardona Coll captured the bronze.
Harrop had been favored to triumph the idiosyncratic sprint contention connected Thursday and the first-ever skimo Olympic medal but finished down Fatton. Anselmet was 3rd successful his race, with Cardona Coll claiming gold.
Italian one-two
Freeskiers Simone Deromedis and Federico Tomasoni added to the Olympic big country's medal haul with a 1-2 decorativeness successful the men's skicross final.
Deromedis dominated the four-skier last to triumph golden portion Tomasoni needed a photo-finish to assertion metallic aft stretching to hardly bushed Alex Fiva. They some celebrated with Italian flags draped implicit their shoulders arsenic snowfall fell.
Deromedis gave Italy its 10th golden medal of the Milan Cortina Olympics. Italy's wide haul is 30 astatine the extremity of the penultimate day.
Italy's erstwhile champion Winter Olympics was the Lillehammer Games successful 1994, erstwhile it picked up 20 medals.
