BEIJING (AP) Whether it's a sidelining injury or a loss on the world stage, Olympic athletes know what it's like to suffer major setbacks and to bounce back. Most athletes who earn a chance to compete in an Olympic Games do not go home with medals.
BEIJING (AP) Irene Schouten grew up dreaming of an Olympic gold medal. She’ll head home from the Beijing Games with three of ’em. The Dutch speedskater established herself as the biggest star at the Ice Ribbon with her third individual victory, chasing down Canada’s Ivanie Blondin to win the women’s mass start on Saturday.
BEIJING (AP) Claudia Pechstein and Sven Kramer put their Olympic careers on ice in the final speedskating event in Beijing. Two of the sport’s greatest names own a combined 18 Olympic medals. Neither won another at these Games, although they both made the final of the mass start.
ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) The Frenchman fared better in the first week. The Norwegian nailed it in the second. The biathlon competition at this year’s Olympics, held amid whipping wind and bone-chilling temperatures in the mountains far outside Beijing, produced an epic battle between two of the sport’s best.
BEIJING (AP) Laura Nolte and Mariama Jamanka added to Germany’s record haul of Olympic medals. Elana Meyers Taylor extended her medal record, too. The German sliding domination of the Beijing Games continued Saturday, with Nolte driving to gold and Jamanka winning the silver in the women’s bobsled competition and Meyers Taylor, in possibly her last race , grabbed the bronze for the fifth medal of her Olympic career.