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Five Gold Medals At Stake Sunday at Winter Olympics VOA News 17 Feb 2002 15:48 UTC 
Carole Montillet of France will seek her second gold medal today (Sunday) in Super-G skiing competition at the Winter Olympics. Tuesday, Montillet became the first French woman to win an Olympic downhill skiing gold medal. Gold medals are also at stake today in ice dancing, women's one-thousand-meter speedskating, the men's 40-kilometer cross country relay and the two-man bobsled. The Canadian figure skating team of Jamie Sale and David Pelletier will also get a gold medal in a special ceremony tonight. The International Olympic Committee (I-O-C) and the International Skating Union (I-S-U) awarded the medals to the pair Friday after a judging scandal was exposed in their second-place finish to a Russian pair Monday. The I-O-C and I-S-U have suspended a French figure skating judge for misconduct. In competition Saturday, China and Australia won their first-ever Winter Olympic gold medals. Yang Yang of China won the 500-meter short track speed skating and Steven Bradbury of Australia took the men's one-thousand-meter short track speed skating competition. Dutchman Gerard van Velde shattered a world record to win Olympic gold in the men's one-thousand meter speed skating event. His time was one minute and seven seconds, more than a half-second off the previous record. Germany leads in total medals with 18, followed by the United States with 16. Norway and Austria have 12 medals each, and Russia has 10. Norway has a high of seven gold medals. Sixteen other countries have won medals. In other action on the ninth day of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Norway's Kjetil Andre Aamodt won his second gold of the games with a victory in the men's Super-G. Norwegian Ole Einar Bjoerndalen also won the gold medal in the men's biathlon 12-and-a-half kilometer event, making him the first triple gold medalist of the 2002 games. Russian Olga Pyleva won the gold medal in the women's biathlon 10-kilometer pursuit.
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