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This is the cbs evening news. Displim good evening, im jim axelrod and this is a western edition of the broadcast. The first day of competition is in the books at the 22nd olympic winter games in sochi, russia. While concerns about terror attacks and human rights have dominated the runup to the games, now the events start and olympic organizers certainly hope that the athletes will take center stage. All told, 230 u. S. Athletes will go for the gold in sochi, and tonight one of them already has it. Alphonso van marsh has a wrapup of day one fair warning, he is going to tell you which american was the first to win gold. Reporter big board, big tricks thats slopestyle snow boarding and an american Sage Kotsenburg took the gold medal in the sports olympic debut. Honestly, it feels like a dream right now. Just winning a gold on the first day and the first event of slope style ever being in the olympics is seriously the craziest thing ....