Olympics Articles

Dutch resume dominance in speed skating, sweep 10,000 meters

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Sochi, Russia (SportsNetwork.com) – Speed skating has belonged to the Netherlands at the Sochi Olympics and that did not change on Tuesday. The Dutch swept another event, grabbing three more medals in the men’s 10,000 meters at Adler Arena. Jorrit […]

Radulov scores twice to lift Russia over Norway

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Sochi, Russia (SportsNetwork.com) – Alexander Radulov recorded two goals and an assist and Sergei Bobrovsky posted a shutout to lead Russia into the quarterfinals on Tuesday with a 4-0 win over Norway at the Sochi Olympics. Captain Pavel Datsyuk added […]

France’s Vaultier wins men’s snowboard cross

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Krasnaya Polyana, Russia (SportsNetwork.com) – France’s Pierre Vaultier held off Russia’s Nikolay Olyunin to win the men’s snowboard cross Tuesday at the Sochi Olympics. Vaultier, 26, won his first medal in his third Olympics, fending off a late charge from […]

Norway wins gold and silver in Nordic combined

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Krasnaya Polyana, Russia (SportsNetwork.com) – Norway’s Joergen Graabak took gold on Tuesday in the men’s Nordic combined large hill event at the Sochi Olympics. Graabak was sixth after the ski jumps and started the cross country race 42 seconds behind […]

Finland blanks Russia for fifth in women’s hockey

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Sochi, Russia (SportsNetwork.com) – Noora Raty finished a strong Olympics with 19 saves to lift Finland to a 4-0 victory over Russia in the fifth-place game of the women’s hockey tournament. Linda Valimaki and Riikka Valila scored goals less than […]

SKorea wins gold in relay; Celski moves on in 500

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Sochi, Russia (SportsNetwork.com) – South Korea won gold in the women’s 3,000- meter relay Tuesday at the Sochi Olympics thanks to a terrific final leg from Shim Suk-Hee. Shim, who won silver in the 1,500 in Sochi, gave the Koreans […]

Svendsen wins mass start, Fourcade gets silver

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Krasnaya Polyana, Russia (SportsNetwork.com) – Norway’s Emil Hegle Svendsen won his third Olympic gold medal Tuesday at the Sochi Olympics, beating French biathlete Martin Fourcade in a sprint to the finish line to take the men’s 15- kilometer mass start […]

Pussy Riot members released in Sochi

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Sochi, Russia (SportsNetwork.com) – Two members of the punk rock band Pussy Riot who were detained in Sochi on Tuesday were later released. Pictures posted online by news outlets showed several people in colorful ski masks surrounded by reporters outside […]

Frenzel leads large hill event after jumps

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Krasnaya Polyana, Russia (SportsNetwork.com) – Germany’s Eric Frenzel will be looking for his second Nordic combined gold medal of the Sochi Olympics after taking the lead through jumps Tuesday in the large hill event. Frenzel had a jump of 139.5 […]