Olympics Day 8 Wrapup

The celebrations in Oslo are starting to get bigger by the day with another two golds going to the winnigest nation in Winter Olympics history. Norway's Marit Bjoergen and Aksel Lund Svindal took gold in the day events on Friday. At the Whistler Sliding Centre, Canada won its fourth gold of the games thanks to Jon Montgomery in skeleton and Great Britain got on the medal board with Amy Williams' gold, also in skeleton.
The men's Super G competition saw American Andrew Weibrecht take an early lead, one skier later his teammate Bode Miller continued the Bode Miller Redemption Tour by placing the best time. Miller's top time lastest until Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, who won the silver in the downhill, beat Bode by 28 seconds and his time held up to win gold. After winning gold in the downhill, Didier Defago along with the rest of the Swiss team could not muster up a good run at all with the highest finishing Swiss in eighth place.
Also at Whistler during the day was the third women's cross-country event. This time it was the 15k pursuit, which combines the two different styles of the sport, freestyle and classic, to be done for half of the race. Marit Bjoergen continued her phenomenal form and won her second goal and third overall medal of the games. Bjoergen beat Sweden's Anna Haag by eight seconds and World Cup leader Justyna Kowalcyzk of Poland by 9.3 seconds. Bjoergen has three days off and then will try to win her fourth medal in the team relay Monday.
The Whistler Sliding Centre had a minor bit of controversy today with the American team complaining about Amy Williams' helmet being unfair but the judges ruled that the Brit's helmet was legal and had nothing to do with her record-breaking second heat yesterday. Williams continued the trend at the sliding centre by leading in all four heats. All three luge events and the women's skeleton had the same leader for all four heats. Williams dropped another record run in her third heat and after her fourth run finished over half a second ahead of Germany's Kerstin Szymkowiak and over three-fourths of a second ahead of Anja Huber of Germany. Williams' win give Great Britain their first gold medal since the Lake Placid games in 1980.
In the men's skeleton, Jon Montgomery of Canada broke the trend of being in front for all four heats. Martins Dukurs of Latvia, who was been dominant all season, was up by 0.18 over Montgomery after the third run. But, it all changed in the fourth and final run with Montgomery pulling pack his time and surpassing Dukurs by seven hundredths of a second to claim home gold yet again for Canada. Alexander Tretyakov took bronze for Russia.
Today's Gold Medalists:
Aksel Lund Svindal (Alpine Skiing- Norway)
Marit Bjoergen (Cross-Country- Norway)
Amy Williams (Skeleton- Great Britain)
Jon Montgomery (Skeleton- Canada)
Medal Count after Friday:
USA- 20
Germany- 13
Norway- 10
Canada- 8
France- 7
Korea, Austria, Russia- 5
Switzerland, China, Sweden, Italy- 4
Netherlands, Poland, Japan- 3
Australia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Latvia, Belarus- 2
Great Britain, Estonia, Finland, Kazakhstan, Croatia, Slovenia- 1