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Day 11: Virtue-Moir take gold as they become the most decorated Ice Skaters in Winter Games history

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Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir

The Canadian Ice Skating pair of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who skated to gold at the Vancouver 2010  and took silver at Sochi 2014, scored a record 206.07 points at Pyeonchang 2018 to claim gold. The pair skated to El Tango de Roxanne and Come What May with emotive resonance, technical precision and smoldering intensity to edge the French pair of Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron by 0.79 points. Papadakis and Cizeron, who skated to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, settled for silver in spite of breaking their own world-record in ice dance. he brother-sister duo of Alex and Maia Shibutani from USA claimed the bronze after an excellent display of technique to Coldplay’s Paradise. 

Cassie Sharpe

Cassie Sharpe of Canada won gold in Freestyle Skiing Halfpipe pipping ahead of French veteran Marie Martinod who took silver and Brita Sigourney of USA who took the bronze medal. Sharpe is the reigning World No 1. She performed a marvellous big truck driver, a trick being performed by only a handful of female freestyle skiers, to claim the gold. Martinod, competing in her last Olympics,  added to her Sochi 2014 silver with another silver this time.

Johannes Rydzek

Germans swept the medals in Men’s Individual Large Hill and Individual 10km Nordic Combined with reigning world champion Johannes Rydzek winning the gold. This is Germany’s first ever victory in the event.  Fabian Riessle and Eric Frenzel won the silver and the bronze respectively.

France Team winning the Biathlon Mixed Relay gold

France won the Biathlon Mixed Relay gold with a time of 1.08:34.3 led by Martin Fourcade. This is Fourcade’s third gold this year and the fifth Olympic medal of his career. He is now France’s most successful Olympian of all time and only the second French athlete to win three golds at a single Olympic Winter Games, after Jean-Claude Killy at Grenoble 1968. Along with Fourcade, the French quartet included Marie Dorin Habert, Anais Bescond and Simon Desthieux. Defending champions Norway comprising of Marte Olsbu, Tiril Eckhoff, Johannes Thingnes Boe, Emil Hegle Svendsen came second with 20.9 seconds behind the French team. Lisa Vittozzi, Dorothea Wierer, Lukas Hofer, Dominik Windisch of Italy won the bronze.

Republic of Korea winning the 3,000m Women’s Speed Skating Relay

Republic of Korea retained the 3,000m Women’s Speed Skating Relay event finishing the final lap in lighting speed. Korea’s team of Minjeong, Shim Sukhee, Kim Yejin and Kim Alang did not make the best of starts but the crowd support was always behind them. They secured a combined time of 4.07.361. China finished second but were later disqualified, allowing Italy to take silver with a time of 4.15.901. Canada were also disqualified, giving the bronze to Netherlands.

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PoulomiKundu started her career in 2000 as a freelance journalist in Hindustan Times. Soon after she was selected an intern in Zee News, Kolkata. After her post- graduation in English, Poulomi joined the leading television production house of eastern India, Rainbow Productions. She was a journalist in Khas Khobor, a Bengali news magazine programme in Doordarshan and also headed the post production department of another programme, Khas Kolkata. In 2004, Poulomi moved to Delhi as a creative writer in an advertising agency, Brand Stewards Pvt. Ltd. In 2005, she again shifted her base for a better opportunity and that in Mumbai. There she got the job in Raa Media Pvt Ltd. as an associate director of two programmes for Doordarshan-Yuva and Paisa Vasool. In the meantime, she also wrote features in DNA as a freelancer. Poulomi directs promotional videos, develops scripts for films for Corporate and NGOs. But an ardent sports lover, Poulomi always had an urge to contribute somewhere in the field of sports. Her love for sports started from an early age when she played gully cricket and football for local teams. Academics and professional hazards sometimes took her away from her passion, but it never died in her. She always nurtured the never-ending dream. So she materialized her dream in the form of ‘SPORTSAVOUR’. It is an online sports portal that serves sports with the tagline ‘For the indigenous, unconventional, unknown’.

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