Sweden won gold in 4x10km relay
by Magdalena Rosova
Swedish skiers won a gold medal in cross country 4x10 km relay at the Vancouver Olympics. Last time Sweden won Olympic title 22 years ago. Sweden won the medal for a record fifth time on Wednesday. Norway won silver and Czech Republic bronze medal. Swedish quartet finished relay with the best time 1h 45m 05.4sec, which was 15.9sec better than Norwegians. Swedish Marcus Hellner was the one who crossed the line and had enough time to even unfurl a Sweden flag and wave it when crossing it. Petter Northug let Norwegians to a win in leg sprint on Monday, but was not able to repeat the victory on Wednesday. That time it was Daniel Richardsson, Johan Olsson, Anders Soedergren ! and Marcus Hellner who triumphed. Olson said that beating the Norwegians made their victory even sweeter and he added that their biggest goal was to get away from Norway. Norwegian team consisting of Martin Johnsrud, Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset, Lars Berger and Petter Northug won silver medal and Czechs Martin Jaks, Lukas Bauer, Jiri Magal and Martin Koukal got to the final line at 16.5sec. Olsson commented the victory saying that quality preparation had made the team so successful. Northug revealed that when he was absolutely exhausted he decided to slow down a bit and save his power at the end. In the first leg it looked like French will win the madal, Italians and the Russians struggled to keep pace. In the end the French team consisting of Vincent Vittoz, Jean-Marc Gaillard, Maurice Manificat and Emmanuel Jonnier missed bronze by four seconds.
related story (sgx16601): http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-news/n/news/afp-news/cr...
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