Spain win first winter gold since 1972 as ski mountaineering debuts

Spain won a first Winter Olympics gold since 1972 when twice reigning world champion Oriol Cardona Coll triumphed in the ...
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Spain ends long 54-year wait for Winter Olympic gold with inaugural men’s ski mountaineering gold

After a long wait of 54 years, Spain recorded its first Winter Olympic gold with Oriol Cardona Coll stamping a The post Spain ...

Cardona Coll makes history for Spain with men's ski mountaineering sprint gold, Fatton claims women's title

Oriol Cardona Coll won Spain's first Winter Olympics gold medal for 54 years as he claimed victory in the men's sprint in the ...

Ana Alonso Rodriguez’s hard climb to Olympic skimo bronze began off the snow, after being hit by car

BORMIO, Italy (AP) — The steepest hill ski mountaineering athlete Ana Alonso Rodriguez had to climb on her way to an Olympic bronze medal involved no course at all. No snow or competitors, either.

Ski mountaineering makes Olympic debut on snowy day as Marianne Fatton of Switzerland wins 1st gold

BORMIO, Italy (AP) — They skied uphill through a diamond-shaped pattern and climbed a flight of on-slope stairs in their ski boots. Far from done, they endured more lung-searing climbing, with skis ...

Olympics-SkiMo-Cardona Coll makes history for Spain with gold in men's sprint

By Martyn Herman BORMIO, Italy, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Oriol Cardona Coll won Spain's first Winter Olympics gold medal for 54 ...

Filippov wins silver in skimo's Olympic debut, 1st individual neutral athlete to earn medal in Italy

BORMIO, Italy (AP) — Nikita Filippov, the ski mountaineer racer listed as an individual neutral athlete, was feeling the support. From family and his friends, who showed up in the stands for ...