aaaah he just faded completely in the end.

heartbreaking

so close

That was a seriously amazing race and finish

wow that was sick to watch

sweet finish

FACE PLANT FOR THE WIN

qft

Strong team effort by the Americans, can do very well in the relay later in the games.

Really gives you a feel for how hard this **** is when Olympic athletes fall over and can't move after crossing the finish.

+1. Most exciting event so far.

Sick day for the French so far

That was one hell of an ending.

THAT'S SKIING FROM THE COPS SPEED!

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too much time looking over his shoulder down the stretch instead of just busting ass through the line imo

lol, they are still ignoring the Korean guy who won gold in the race where Ohno won silver.

This Dale Begg-Smith ******* better not be the 1st Canadian to win a Gold here.

The French seems to have excellent skis for these conditions.

This is completely untrue IMO. Two weeks ago Peyton Manning made one mistake, throwing a pick in the 4th that got returned for a TD, which cost his team the game.

This is the highest level of sports that we see in the pro leagues and in the Olympics, and the top athletes can perform their respective discipline almost flawlessly. Therefore they should loose if they make a mistake in competition.

There is no possible way that an athlete in the winter olympic's would loose an event because of poor weather. These athletes have been training there entire lives and they have skied(or whatever event) in every type of weather imaginable. These guys grew up on the mountains and they know how crazy the winter weather can be.

Yeah 2 golds in these conditions

Klassen!

yeah he can go **** himself

There is and it can happen in a ton of events. When it begins to snow in the nordic skiing events the track gets slower, it doesn't matter how often they have trained in snow, slower track is slower track. Or take ski jumping, if the wind turns around guys are screwed, that can cost you the win no matter how good you are. In Biathlon the wind can screw you as well while shooting. Fact is these are outdoor events and the weather has heavy influence.

there were Koreans in the race?

The best "biathlete" could have the best race of his life today, but if he started as #40 he would have no shot at getting a medal, because the conditions turned awful during the event. The top 6 today were all among the 10 first starters, and that was no coincidence.

Uhh this guys Australian. He was born in Vancouver, buy won gold for Australia in the 2006 games.