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Olympic Skier Bode Miller chats with us about his emotional Bronze Medal victory at the Sochi Winter Olympics and the joke bewteen he and his wife.
US cross-country skier Kikkan Randall, who is also the only mother on the team, became the first American athlete ever to receive a gold medal for Olympic cross-country skiing. On Wednesday, Randall won the Team Sprint Free Final race along with her partner Jessica Diggins, clocking the 7.5 km-long hilly track in 16.22.56. Randall is the only mother on the US team, as well as one of the first women to compete in five editions of the Olympic Games.
Russian winter athletes, including skeleton racer Olga Potylitsina, European skeleton champion Elena Nikitina, Skeleton racer Alexsandr Tretyakov, and cross-country skier Alexei Petukohv reacted to the news. On Tuesday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced in a press conference in Lausanne it would ban Russia from participating at the next Winter Olympics 2018, allowing clean Russian athletes to compete under a neutral flag.
Now the games are underway here are a few facts you might not know about the Olympics.
San Sebastian, Jul 29 (EFE).- The Spanish canoeist Maialen Chaurraut, a recent silver medalist at the Tokyo Olympic Games, was warmly welcomed Thursday on the San Sebastian beach of La Concha, the "incomparable setting" chosen by her home club, Atlético San Sebastián, to honor her merits. (Camera: EFE).SHOT LIST: THE SPANISH CANOEIST MAIALEN CHAURRAUT IS WELCOMED AT LA CONCHA BEACH IN SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN.