Thursday, February 18, 2010

This brother won a gold medal

In a repeat of his gold medal-winning performance in Turin four years ago, Olympic speed skater, Shani Davis, won gold again in the 1000 meter race yesterday in Vancouver with a time of 1 minute 8.94 seconds.  He edged out the competition by 0.18 seconds by pumping his arms and summoning his last reserves of energy to cross the finish line. 
“It doesn’t matter what it looks like, just as long as you get across the line as quick as you could,” he said with a laugh.

Davis is the first skater to win that event twice at the Olympic Winter Games.  He is was the first African American to win an individual gold medal at the Winter Games when he won his first gold four years ago at the games in Turin, Italy; he is also only the third American male to win more than one speed skating gold medal.
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