The Winter Olympic Games experienced a historic milestone this Sunday with the ninth Olympic title of long-distance runner Johannes Klaebo's career, while skier Federica Brignone delighted the local tifosi with a second gold in Milano Cortina. In addition, Norwegian Anna Odine Stroem completed her individual double in ski jumping with gold in large springboard.

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Johannes Klaebo has already won four events out of four contested in these Games, and he still has two more to compete: the 29-year-old Norwegian prodigy sets a new record for winter Olympic titles with his nine gold medals, leaving behind the eight won by three compatriots, the biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen and the former cross-country skiers Marit Bjorgen and Bjorn Daehlie.

After his victory with Norway this Sunday in the cross-country skiing relay event, Klaebo wanted to dedicate the feat to his grandfather and coach since he was a teenager: "He is 83 years old, but he is still the person with the most capacity for innovation. That he can see this, after so many years, is something incredible."

In the last week of the Games, on Wednesday in the team sprint and on Saturday in the individual 50 km, he can continue to set the bar even higher.

Another blow from the 'Tigress'

With Sweden's Sara Hector and Norway's Thea Louise Stjernesund prostrate on their knees and an entire country cheering her: this is how local star Federica Brignone, affectionately nicknamed 'Fede' in Italy, finished her giant slalom on Sunday, winning the event four days after triumphing in the super-G.

Seriously injured last April, she did not return to the competition until well into January and her chances in the Games were unknown, but the 35-year-old veteran is starring in the most beautiful fairy tale of her career and of this Olympic edition.

"For me it is a beautiful surprise to be here again. I have made an effort to be relaxed and enjoy every moment. I have never felt pressure, I think that is my secret to achieving this," admitted the 'Tigress' of Italy, a country that already surpassed its previous record of twenty medals in the Winter Games this Sunday.

Shiffrin, not even in the Top 10

If Brignone was the face, the cross of the day in women's alpine skiing was the American Mikaela Shiffrin, who finished in an unusual eleventh place in the giant and still has not won an Olympic medal for eight years.

"Today we had the highest level giant slalom in a long time. It's really good that so many skiers were able to put on this show today," said the woman who holds the record for victories in World Cup events (108).

After the bitter fourth place in the team combined and this eleventh place, Shiffrin only has one bullet left to leave these Games with a medal: Wednesday's slalom, her favorite discipline.

There he will try to avoid repeating a second Olympic Games without a podium, after his enormous disappointment four years ago in Beijing.

Stroem double

Norwegian Anna Odine Stroem achieved the individual double in ski jumping by winning gold in large springboard in Predazzo, after having won the title in small springboard.

With 284.8 points, Stroem, 27, surpassed her compatriot Eirin Maria Kvandal (282.7 pts), so both offered their team a double in this competition.

The Scandinavians had also won silver in the mixed team event.

The big favorite, the Slovenian Nika Prevc (271.5 pts), had to settle for the bronze in the large trampoline after having already experienced a disappointment in the small trampoline with the silver medal.

Milano Cortina marked the debut of the women's large trampoline competition at the Winter Olympic Games.

Kingsbury gets even

The Canadian Mikael Kingsbury, one of the legends of acrobatic skiing, was proclaimed Olympic champion of parallel moguls this Sunday, adding at the age of 33 his fifth medal in a Games and the second gold after the moguls title in 2018.

In that moguls event he had experienced great disappointment this week when he was relegated to silver by the Australian Cooper Woods.

For his part, the Swede Martin Ponsiluoma took the title in the biathlon pursuit event, while Great Britain triumphed in the mixed team snowboard cross.

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