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Ted Ligety won the giant slalom at the Sochi Games with a dominating performance Wednesday, becoming the first American man to win two Olympic gold medals in Alpine skiing.

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During Tuesday’s bobsled competition, Lauryn Williams and Lolo Jones became the ninth and 10th Americans to compete in different sports at the Summer and Winter Olympics. The other eight U.S. athletes to do the summer-winter combo are:

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Minnesota sophomore Wally Ellenson, a native of Rice Lake, Wis., has left the program.

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Mike Mayock of NFL Network said linebacker Chris Borland of Wisconsin probably will be taken in the second round of the NFL draft.

Jorrit Bergsma set an Olympic record and led another Dutch speedskating sweep Tuesday, winning the 10,000 meters with an upset of countryman Sven Kramer.

Pierre Vaultier stood atop the podium, feeling no pain from a knee held together by little more than a brace and cheek-biting grit. To his left, bronze medalist Alex Deibold was soaking up the attention of the U.S. team.

Tina Maze skied through rain and snow to win gold in giant slalom. In tough conditions on the slopes above Sochi, Maze won her second gold medal of the 2014 Games. USA's Mikaela Shiffrin placed fifth in her Olympic debut.

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Bob Costas, who missed six nights with an eye infection, returned as NBC Olympics prime-time and late-night host on Monday.

Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the gold medal in ice dance Monday, the first Olympic title in the event for the United States. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada, the 2010 champions, took silver.

It was a night 62 years in the making for the U.S., with the pairing of Steven Holcomb of Park City, Utah, and Steve Langton of Melrose, Mass., taking the bronze, winning the first two-man bobsled medal by an American sled since 1952.

Thick fog lingered over the mountains at the Sochi Olympics on Monday, forcing the postponement of the men's 15km mass start biathlon race and the men's snowboard cross event until Tuesday.

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