No Way Norway wins 2022 Winter Olympics ? Norway ! Yes Way ! As Scandinavian Country Wins Winter Olympics.
Johannes Thingnes Bo steered Norway to Winter Olympic history as they won a record-breaking 15th gold in Beijing.
Bo’s victory in the men’s mass start biathlon was his fourth gold of the Games, and his fifth medal overall.No
His country’s tally surpassed the previous best at a Winter Games of 14, first achieved by Canada in 2010.
Norway’s Marte Olsbu Roiseland, meanwhile, has become the first person to win a medal in all four individual biathlon events at a Winter Games.
Roiseland took bronze in the women’s mass start biathlon, to add to the gold she earned in the sprint and pursuit biathlon events, and bronze in the individual.
The 31-year-old also won gold in the mixed relay, meaning she is the first woman to win five biathlon medals in a single Winter Games.
Justine Braisaz-Bouchet took gold in the women’s mass start event, becoming the first Frenchwoman ever to do so.
Tiril Eckhoff, in second, is the first female biathlete to win a mass start medal at three successive Games.
As Bo, 28, took victory in the men’s event, he became the third biathlete to win five medals at a single Games after France’s Quentin Fillon Maillet, who claimed gold in the individual and pursuit events at Beijing, plus silver in the sprint and both relays, and Roiseland.
Martin Ponsilouma of Sweden took silver with another Norwegian, Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen, winning bronze.
Fillon Maillet finished fourth to narrowly miss out on a historic sixth Olympic biathlon medal.
The athletes had to battle freezing temperatures and high winds throughout both races, with the women’s event brought forward 24 hours because of forecast bad weather.
Finland into first ice hockey final in 16 years
Finland reached their first men’s Olympic ice hockey final in 16 years after a 2-0 victory over Slovakia.
Sakari Manninen scored the opener in the first period for Finland, who have never won the gold medal.
Harri Pesonen scored into an empty net to seal the win late on after Slovakia netminder Patrik Rybar joined their attack in search for an equaliser.
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The Finns had beaten Slovakia 6-2 in their tournament opener but this was a much closer affair, with Manninen’s opener one of a few scoring chances in the opening period.
The rest of game was then dominated by the two netminders, with Slovakia’s Rybar making 25 saves, while Harri Sateri made 28 to earn the shutout for Finland.
While they have never claimed Olympic gold, Finland – the number two-ranked team in the world – have claimed a medal in three of the past four Games, including silver in Turin in 2006.
They will face the Russian Olympic Committee in Sunday’s gold medal match after the defending champions squeezed past Sweden on penalties.
Arseni Gritsyuk scored the decisive goal at sudden death in the shootout.
Sweden’s Anton Lander had earlier cancelled out Anton Slepyshev’s opener midway through the third period, with the sides still unable to be separated after overtime, when ended with the score 1-1.
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