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TURIN, Feb. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Don't be jealous.
South Korea, good at only one sport, jumped over
traditional winter sports powers including Norway on the gold medal tally at the
Turin Olympic Games on Saturday.
The Asian country swept two short
track speedskating golds Saturday night to make it three in all, overtaking
Norway, Canada,Switzerland, Italy and Sweden in the number of golds.
Ahn Hyun-soo, 1,500m winner on Monday, nudged ahead
of compatriot Lee Ho-suk to take the 1,000m crown in one minute and 26.739
seconds. Lee finished second with American Apolo Anton Ohnoin third place.
In the women's 1,500m final, 17-year-old Jin Sun-yu
clocked 2:23.494 for the top honor. Her teammate pocketed the silver with the
bronze going to Chinese Wang Meng, 500m winner on Wednesday.
Olympic history was rewritten as Kjetil Andre Aamodt
and JanicaKostelic emerged as the most titled Olympic Alpine skiers of all time
and Shani Davis became the first black athlete to win an individual gold at the
Winter Olympics.
Norwegian Aamodt and Croatian Kostelic clinched their
fourth Winter Olympic gold, winning the men's super-G and the women's combined
respectively.
Aamodt posted a winning time of 1:30.65 in his last
Olympics, beating 1998 winner Hermann Maier of Austria and Switzerland's Ambrosi
Hoffmann.
Kostelic won the storm-delayed women's combined
event, a half second ahead of Austrian Marlies Schild and Sweden's Anja Paerson.
World record holder Shani Davis from the United
States nabbed the men's 1,000m speedskating title, following in the
history-making footsteps of American bobsledder Vonetta Flowers, who in 2002
became the first black Winter Olympic champion in any sport in the two-woman
event.
Davis timed 1:08.27 to beat fellow American Chad
Hedrick by 0.27 seconds while Dutchman Erben Wennemars, the 2003 and 2004
worldchampion in 1,000m, placed third in 1:09.32.
As thrilling as the men's 1,000m final, the men's
biathlon 12.5km competition saw France's Vincent Defrasne overtake five-time
Olympic champion Ole Einar Bjoerndalen over the last meters for the gold.
The Frenchman finished 2.7 seconds clear of the
Norwegian, withGerman Sven Fischer picked the bronze.
German biathlete Kati Wilhelm lifted her third
Olympic gold with a solid win over teammate Martina Glagow and Russian Albina
Akhatova in the women's 10km pursuit.
Russia came from behind to win the women's cross
country skiingteam relay, edging defending champion Germany to second place.
Italy won a surprise bronze.
Austrians finished 1-2 in the individual large hill
ski jumping,with Thomas Morgenstern beating teammate Andreas Kofler to the gold
by 0.1 point.
Norway's Lars Bystoel, who won a gold on the smaller
of the twohills at Pragelato last Sunday, gained the bronze.
The United States tops the gold tally with seven
golds, with Germany and Russia each gathering six. Enditem
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