A roundup of gold medals from Tuesday, Feb. 8, at the Beijing Games:
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ALPINE SKIING
MEN’S SUPER-G
Defending champion Matthias Mayer of Austria won the men’s super-G, capturing a third Olympic gold medal.
Ryan Cochran-Siegle of the United States was 0.04 seconds behind in second and World Cup super-G leader Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway was 0.42 behind in third.
Mayer broke Norway’s 16-year grip on the men’s Olympic super-G title when he won in 2018. That was four years after winning the downhill in Sochi.
The 31-year-old Mayer also claimed bronze in the men’s downhill on Monday.
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CURLING
MIXED DOUBLES
Sweden won the bronze medal in mixed doubles curling, bouncing back from a semifinal blowout to dominate Britain 9-3 in six ends in the third-place game.
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FREESTYLE SKIING
WOMEN’S BIG AIR
American-born Eileen Gu of China cranked out the first 1620 of her career on her final jump, stunning France’s Tess Ledeux and earning the first of what she hopes will be three gold medals in women’s freestyle big air.
Nicknamed the “Snow Princess,” Gu is a medal favorite in big air, slopestyle and halfpipe. Her first stab at gold came down to the last round.
Ledeux is the only other woman to ever land a 1620 -- 4 ½ spins -- in competition, and she stomped one out with a slight wobble on the landing in Round 1.
Ledeux won silver and Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland won bronze.
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SNOWBOARDING
MEN’S PARALLEL GIANT SLALOM
Second-seeded Benjamin Karl of Austria held off Tim Mastnak of Slovenia for the gold.
Russian athlete Vic Wild picked up the bronze as the No. 9 seed in the bracketed field.
Wild, who is from the United States and was granted Russian citizenship in 2012, won gold in the event at the 2014 Sochi Games.
WOMEN’S PARALLEL GIANT SLALOM
Ester Ledecka of the Czech Republic defended her Olympic snowboard parallel giant slalom title with a quick final run on a sun-splashed course.
Four years ago in South Korea, Ledecka became the first competitor to win gold in two different sports at the same Winter Games. She has a chance to accomplish the feat once again in China. The women’s super-G ski race is scheduled for Friday at the Yanqing Alpine Skiing Center.
In the gold-medal race, the top-seeded Ledecka opened an early lead on Daniela Ulbing, putting pressure on the Austrian snowboarder along the side-by-side course at the Genting Snow Park. Ulbing made a mistake up top and later veered off course. Gloria Kotnik of Slovenia earned the bronze.
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