MILAN \u2014 South Korean speedskater Kim Gilli thought it funny earlier in the Milan-Cortina Olympics when someone referred to her as Lambor-Gilli, an homage to the famous Italian sports car known for its speed.<\/p>\n
There was nothing humorous about the way she took care of everyone in the 1,500 meters on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Gilli denied South Korea teammate Minjeong Choi her third consecutive Olympic gold in the event, relegating her to the silver medal, while Corinne Stoddard earned a drought-ending bronze medal for the U.S. in short-track racing at the Winter Games.<\/p>\n
\u201cI showed everything I could do, remaining calm,\u201d Gilli said through a translator. \u201cI believed in myself and went for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
So did Stoddard, who earned the first individual medal in a short-track event for an American woman in 16 years.<\/p>\n
Stoddard set the early pace in the final race of the Olympic program, but Choi swept to the front with two laps to go as the crowd rose to its feet. Gilli quickly went with her and the 21-year-old made the decisive pass on her teammate before crossing the finishing line.<\/p>\n
Stoddard raised her arms in triumph as she crossed the line a split-second later for third place.<\/p>\n
Arianna Fontana of Italy came up short in her bid to tie Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bj\u00f8rgen as the most decorated Winter Olympian with her 15th medal. After winning gold in the 2,000-meter relay and silver in the 500 meters and 3,000-meter relay earlier in her home Olympics, the 35-year-old Fontana finished fifth in the 1,500-meter finale.<\/p>\n
Skretta writes for the Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN \u2014 South Korean speedskater Kim Gilli thought it funny earlier in the Milan-Cortina Olympics when someone referred…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[19430,748,395,34470,227182,221493,8639,227183,9465,227184,224689,227185,49,16618,978,659,7038,144593],"class_list":["post-779016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-associated-press","tag-britain","tag-getty-images","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-medal-count","tag-milan-cortina-olympic-games","tag-result","tag-richard-heathcote","tag-schedule","tag-short-tracker-speedskater","tag-tara-peterson","tag-u-s-curler-taylor-anderson-heide","tag-united-states","tag-update","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wednesday","tag-winter-olympics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116107794503142874","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}