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Walter Wallberg of Sweden produced the run of his life to take the gold medal in the men's moguls and stun reigning champion Mikael Kingsbury. Wallberg, who has never won on the World Cup tour, put everything into the last run of the day and stole the gold from Canadian favourite Kingsbury. Ad/> Kingsbury, who has 71 World Cup wins, had to settle for silver.
Pechstein became the oldest female Winter Olympian when she raced in the 3,000 meters speed skating at the Beijing Games on Saturday. Already the first woman to win five consecutive medals at the Winter Games, the 49-year-old Pechstein carried Germany's flag at Friday's opening ceremony, but came 20th and last in her event. Although she finished more than 20 seconds behind Dutch gold medallist Irene Schouten who also took her Olympic record Pechstein raised her arms and looked relieved as she crossed the finishing line.
BEIJING : Speed skating fans were excited to discover on Saturday that women's 3,000 metres Olympic silver medallist Francesca Lollobrigida was the great-niece of Italian film star Gina Lollobrigida.
In-demand Danihlo Doekhi could remain at Vitesse as the Eredivise side look for a quick-fire technical director appointment.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Hwang Dae-heon added the Olympic record to his world best time as he qualified for the quarter-finals of the short track speed skating 1,000 metres event at the Beijing Games on Saturday.
BEIJING : Claudia Pechstein became the oldest female Winter Olympian when she raced in the 3,000 metres speed skating at the Beijing Games on Saturday.
Concerns around press freedom in China have been raised on the first day of the Winter Olympics after an international journalist was manhandled by a security guard while attempting to speak on camera.
Irene Schouten of the Netherlands won gold in the women’s speed skating 3000m after setting a new Olympic record time of 3:56.93. Francesca Lollobrigida of Italy took home silver, bumping Canada's Isabelle Weidemann down to bronze.