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At the end, and this may be the very end, Apolo Anton Ohno circled the Pacific Coliseum ice with a smile, tears welling and an unprecedented eighth Winter Olympics medal secured.
It just took a few minutes longer than expected. He’d had No. 8 in hand after the men’s 500-meter race earlier Friday evening, but he’d also had that hand on the hip of a competitor on the last turn of that race. That got him disqualified, leaving only the chaotic 5,000-meter relay to add to the stack of hardware he’d accrued.
So Ohno anchored the U.S. team in that race and drove it to a bronze medal, likely capping his decorated Olympic career with a third medal of these Winter Games, even if he wasn’t entirely happy with how it occurred.
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