BREAKING NEWS

Apolo Anton Ohno adds to medal haul

After being disqualified in men’s 500-meter final, he wins bronze as part of the 5,000-meter relay team

By Brian Hamilton

Los Angeles Times

February 26, 2010

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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