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Norway's Petter Northug was the reigning world champion. [3] Italy's Pietro Piller Cottrer won the test event that took place at the Olympic venue on 17 January 2009. [4] The last World Cup event prior to the 2010 Games in this format took place on 23 January 2010 in Rybinsk, Russia, and was won by Russian Artem Zhmurko. [5]
Lee is the first Asian to medal in an Olympic 10000 m speed skating event. Women's ski cross. Canadian Ashleigh McIvor wins the gold medal in the first women's ski cross event at the Winter Olympics. [50] Nordic combined. Austria defends their Olympic gold in the team large hill/4 × 5 km while United States gets their first medal in the event ...
Austria's Felix Gottwald was the defending Olympic champion when the event was known as the 7.5 km Sprint. [2] Gottwald retired originally after the 2006-07 World Cup season, but came out of retirement in May 2009 to compete for the 2009-10 World Cup season including the 2010 Games. [3]
It is the first in a series of earthquakes between 2010 and 2012 that resulted in the deaths of 187 people and over $40 billion worth of damage. [70] [71] Seismologists noted that the earthquake sequence was highly unusual, and likely to never happen again anywhere else in the world. [72] September 7 – Israel becomes the 33rd member of the ...
He broke his personal and the Korean national record, set on 10 January 2010, by 22.5 seconds. Kramer's disqualification allowed Bob de Jong to earn his third Olympic medal on the 10,000 m (he won silver in 1998 and gold in 2006), a feat only equalled by Knut Johannesen, who won silver, gold and bronze at the Olympics in 1956, 1960 and 1964.
We always love a good reaction shot after winning gold, and fencer Lauren Scruggs gave a classic one on Aug. 1. After she scored the winning point to seal the first gold medal in history for the U ...
Paris 2024 is set to open with a 10,000-athlete, 90-boat flotilla down the river Seine, the first time the event will have been held outside the controlled environment of a single stadium.
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games (French: XXI es Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and also known as Vancouver 2010 (Squamish: K'emk'emeláy̓ 2010), were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the surrounding suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the ...