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Talking points
Ice Hockey: Sidney Crosby scored on a breakaway in the second period as Canada retained their Olympic title, rolling over Sweden 3-0 to claim a record ninth gold and the first on European soil in 62 years.
Nordic skiing – 50km: Russia scored their first ever clean sweep of the podium in the men’s 50km cross country race, leaving the home nation certain to top the medals table at the Sochi Olympics. Alexander Legkov won gold in the blue riband distance in 1hr 46min 55.2sec, a fraction of a second ahead of his teammates Maxim Vylegzhanin and Ilia Chernousov who took silver and bronze.
Bobsleigh – four-man: Alexander Zubkov claimed his second gold medal of the Sochi Games and Russia’s 13th by winning the four-man bobsleigh. Zubkov, who also earned gold in the two-man bob, was leading by just 0.04sec after Saturday’s opening two runs.
On Sunday, he produced two more consistent runs to clock a combined time of 3min 40.60sec to finish 0.09sec ahead of second-placed Latvia-1.
The USA-1 team, with Vancouver Olympic champion Steve Holcombe in the driver’s seat, took bronze having been down in fourth overnight.
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Hero of the day
Sidney Crosby, who clinched gold for Canada with an overtime winner in Vancouver in 2010, had been contributing on defence but wasn’t being rewarded for his efforts on the scoresheet in the Sochi Games. Indeed, he had just two assists heading into the gold medal game.
However, Crosby scored on a backhand deke to give Canada a 2-0 lead with 4:17 left in the second period after stripping the puck off Sweden’s Jonathan Ericsson at the Canadian blueline.
He raced in alone on net and gave Swedish netminder Henrik Lundqvist a shoulder fake one way, then deked the other way and scored.
Final Medal table
Tomorrow’s highlights
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Additional reporting via AFP.
