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Lee sets new record to win 500m
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Lee Sang-hwa successfully defended the Olympic women’s 500 meters speedskating title in a blistering record time at the Adler Arena yesterday to give South Korea its first medal of the Sochi Games.
Lee clocked an Olympic record 74.70 seconds for her two 500-meter races in the final session to relegate Olga Fatkulina of Russia into silver medal position and disappoint the majority of the crowd.
Margot Boer kept the strong Sochi speedskating run of the Dutch going by grabbing bronze, the Netherlands’ eighth medal in four days of competition.
Lee, the world-record holder, was the overwhelming favorite heading into the Games having dominated the discipline over the current World Cup season.
She topped the time sheets by 0.15 seconds after her first run from the outside lane in the final heat to eclipse the previous mark of Fatkulina.
The Russian led after the penultimate run in the second session to bring the crowd to their feet before Lee ruined the party with a dominant skate.
Her second heat time of 37.28 was also an Olympic record.
The 24-year-old bent over and looked closed to tears as she skated down the back straight after crossing the finishing line. China’s Zhang Hong finished fourth.
Darya Domracheva of Belarus destroyed her Norwegian and Russian rivals in the women’s 10 km biathlon pursuit to take her country’s first gold at Sochi.
She could even afford to miss the 20th and final target and still comfortably win in 29 minutes, 30.7 seconds.
Tora Berger of Norway was 37.6 seconds behind to take silver. Teja Gregorin of Slovenia trailed Domracheva by 42.0 to claim bronze.
Norway won a double gold in the cross-country freestyle sprints, with Maiken Caspersen Falla taking the women’s title and Ola Vigen Hattestad capturing the men’s in a race marred by a three-skier collision.
Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg of Norway also won silver in the women’s sprint. The three medals gave the Scandinavian country a total of 102 in cross-country skiing since the Winter Olympics began in 1924.
Emil Joensson of Sweden, who had all but given up earlier in the men’s race, grabbed the bronze medal after Sergey Ustiugov of Russia, Marcus Hellner of Sweden and Anders Gloeersen of Norway were involved in a crash that left them sprawled across the course.
Canadian Dara Howell won the gold in women’s slopestyle skiing, but her victory was tempered by teammate Yuki Tsubota’s crash on the slushy snow. She was carried off the mountain on a stretcher with a possible fractured jaw.
Devin Logan of the US won silver and Canada’s Kim Lamarre claimed bronze.
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