Former figure skater Sjoukje Dijkstra has died at the age of 82, her daughter, Katja Kossmayer, confirmed in a post on Facebook. Dijkstra won an Olympic gold medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, becoming the first Dutch athlete to ever win a gold medal during the Winter Olympic Games.She also won a silver medal four years earlier, and secured three world titles and five European championships. She was chosen as the female athlete of the year in the Netherlands six times.
WINTERBERG, Germany - Canada's Hallie Clarke was the leader at the halfway point of the women's skeleton competition at the bobsled and skeleton world championships.