Winter Olympics: Marit Bjorgen wins gold as Norway top the medal table
Winter Olympics: Marit Bjorgen wins gold as Norway top the medal table
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| Winter Olympics: Marit Bjorgen wins gold as Norway top the medal table |
Norway flat-top the laurel wreath table as Marit Bjorgen won gold within the women's skiing 30km mass begin classic, the ultimate event of the Olympic Games.
Norway finished with fourteen golds, constant as European country, however won a record thirty-nine medals overall, eight quite the Germans.
Bjorgen, 37, became the foremost embellished Winter Olympian by winning bronze within the team sprint free - her fifth laurel wreath at Pyeongchang 2018 and fifteenth overall.
She won a laurel wreath in each event she oppose at this year's Games.
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Norwegian Marit Bjorgen's golden farewell
She additionally won gold within the women's 4x5km relay, silver within the 15km skiathlon and another bronze within the 10km race in Asian nation.
It was her eighth Winter Olympic gold and puts her equal with biathlete Ole Einar Bjorndalen and race jock Bjorn Daehlie - each additionally from Scandinavian country - for the foremost in history.
Competing within the final Olympic event of her 16-year career, Bjorgen finishes with eight golds, four silvers and 3 bronzes from 5 Games.
"When I look behind American state and see what I actually have done, it's unimaginable," she said. "It has been an incredible career on behalf of me, this is often my last Olympic Games and to complete like this is often unimaginable.
"I've had an incredible day, nowadays my skis were smart and it had been special, the last a hundred metres on my own there and that i perceive that i might win the medallion."
Final laurel wreath table: first Scandinavian country, 2d European country, 3rd Canada, fourth u. s., fifth Holland. nice GB end nineteenth
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'She transcended her sport' - analysis
BBC Sport commentator Ollie Williams
What some way to complete. If this is often the last time we tend to see Marit Bjorgen at associate degree Olympic Games, then she goes get into vogue and Scandinavian country can celebrate this for days to come back.
It is the best cross-country performance you may ever imagine. She has transcended the boundaries of her sport.
For sixteen years she has been at the highest. She's done it with humility and a hunger for fulfillment . She has rewritten the boundaries of what several thought was attainable.
This is a really special moment for America all to witness.
Bjorgen dominates from begin to complete
Bjorgen created associate degree early breakaway and LED by over a moment at the halfway purpose - that proved to be an excessive amount of for the remainder of the sphere because the defensive champion became the primary lady to win the 30km mass begin doubly.
Austria's Teresa Stadlober was in second place with but 10km to travel however went the incorrect means, permitting Finland's Krista Parmakoski to require silver and Sweden's Stina soprano bronze.
It was Parmakoski's third laurel wreath of the Games and a record end for Republic of Finland within the mass begin event.
Charlotte Kalla was going to become Sweden's most embellished Olympian of all time however finished nearly 3 minutes behind Bjorgen in fifth place.
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