Winter Olympics day three round-up: Beat Feuz wins gold from Johan Clarey

Switzerland's Beat Feuz won a thrilling men's downhill at the Winter Olympics, with 41-year-old Frenchman Johan Clarey taking silver to become the oldest Olympic medallist in alpine skiing.

Feuz produced a superb run to clock one minute 42.69 seconds and edge out four-time Olympian Clarey by 0.1secs.

"I knew I only had one chance left in my career to get a medal in the Olympics," said Clarey.

"When you are a medallist, whether you are 20 or 41 it doesn't matter."

Speed skater Ireen Wust also made history as she became the first person to win an individual gold medal at five different Olympics by retaining her 1500m title in stunning fashion.

The Dutchwoman set an Olympic record of one minute 53.28 seconds to beat Japan's Miho Takagi, with Wust's compatriot Antoinette de Jong in third.

It is a record-extending 12th Olympic speed skating medal for 35-year-old Wust.

She said: "It's really hard to describe. A lot of emotions, especially the good ones. I don't realise it yet. It's insane, actually."

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Italy's Arianna Fontana retained her women's short track 500m title, claiming a 10th career Olympic medal, while China's Ren Ziwei won men's 1,000m gold when Hungary's Liu Shaolin Sandor was disqualified.

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Feuz grabs gold but Shiffrin slips out

The men's downhill was originally scheduled for Sunday but high winds prompted its postponement until Monday, when conditions were perfect.

Feuz, 34, was a two-time medallist at Pyeongchang 2018 but this was his first Olympic gold.

"I can't think of anything more beautiful than flying home with a gold medal around my neck," he said.

But Mikaela Shiffrin's hopes of retaining her Olympic giant slalom title ended early when she slipped and missed a gate on the first run.

"It's a huge disappointment," said the American. "The day was finished basically before it even started."

With Shiffrin out of contention, Sweden's Sara Hector took gold with Italy's Federica Brignone claiming silver and Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami bronze.

Parrot takes gold three years after cancer diagnosis

Earlier on day three, Canada's Max Parrot won a controversial snowboard slopestyle gold with the "best run of his life" - three years after being diagnosed with cancer.

But there was controversy over the judging of his second run, after he seemed to miss a key element of a jump.

Parrot was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in late 2018, but in July 2019 announced he was cancer-free after 12 rounds of chemotherapy.

Elsewhere, 15-year-old Kamila Valieva - competing in the team event - became the first female figure skater to land a quadruple jump at an Olympics as she underlined her status as hot favourite for the individual women's event.

Her historic jump helped the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) to its second gold medal of the Games.

Herrmann secures biathlon gold

Germany's Denise Herrmann won gold in the women's 15km biathlon, which is a combination of cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.

The 33-year-old clocked 44 minutes 12.70 seconds, just under 10 seconds ahead of silver medallist Anais Chevalier-Bouchet of France.

Each missed shot adds a minute to the total time and Norway's Marte Olsbu Roeiseland paid the price for failing to hit the target with her last standing shot, finishing 15.3 seconds behind Herrmann to take the bronze.

More ski jumping success for Slovenia amid suit controversy

Slovenia celebrate winning gold in the inaugural Olympic ski jumping mixed team event

There was controversy in the inaugural ski jumping mixed team final as a number of athletes were disqualified.

Favourites and world champions Germany failed to progress from the 10-team opening round after individual silver medallist Katharina Althaus was disqualified for a suit violation.

Rules link suits and skis to bodyweight in an attempt to remove any advantage that might be gained by athletes being lighter.

Japan, Austria and Norway also had athletes disqualified.

"For me, it is a puppet theatre. The entire season the suits have been an issue," Germany's national team coach Stefan Horngacher said.

"I am unbelievably angry and I don't understand it. We had super jumps, you can only be disappointed with this."

Slovenia won gold, with a team featuring women's individual champion Ursa Bogataj, bronze medallist Nika Kriznar, Timi Zajc and Peter Prevc combining to score 1001.5 points.

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) secured silver and outsiders Canada claimed bronze.

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