【鹿鹿逛索契】Roundup, Norway leads medal count

Let's start off with a roundup of some of the weekend action from Sochi. At the ice rink, Team Russia took gold in the inaugural team figure skating final. The Canadians came in second, and team USA claimed Bronze. The women’s 3000 meter speed skating final also took place yesterday, with Ireen Wust of the Netherlands beating the Czech Republic's defending champion for the gold. Meanwhile up at the slopes, American skier Jamie Anderson won gold in women’s snowboard slopestyle. She took a big risk in deciding to board a run she failed to complete successfully in trial runs. "This course was super challenging. Just everything about it. The rails were really technical, the jumps were really big and kind of weird transitions. But every day they got better and better and by today when we were all riding, it was just so fun. And it definitely made it better because I hadn't really landed the run I landed in finals at all, but I was visualising and taking time off in between to let my body rest. That made it a clean gold sweep for the Americans in slopestyle, as Sage Kotsenburg had claimed gold for the men on Saturday. Austria's Matthias Mayer triumphed in the downhill skiing event, but the event's veterans struggled. The pre-race favourites were old-hands like Aksel Lund Svindal, a world cup racer from Norway, and American Alpine star Bode Miller. "You know, I wanted to ski it as hard as I could and not really back off and unfortunately it required a little bit of tactics today that I didn't apply. I just skied it like I had the other days and kept making little mistakes here and there. But really I am not sure where I lost the time." Over at the mogul course, teenager Justine Dufour-Lapointe gave Canada its first gold in her final. Justine's older sister Chloe actually took silver, making them the third pair of sisters to win gold and silver in the same event at the same Olympics. And to make it even more interesting, they have a third sister, the eldest Maxine, who could have made it a family podium sweep, but she didn't make it to the final. "We want the best for our family, but we ski for ourselves... " So far Norway leads the medal count with seven total, the Netherlands, USA, Canada and Russia are tied for second with four apiece.