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Winners in Sochi: First-Ever Halfpipe Skiing, Snowboard Cross and More

Tuesday in Sochi saw medals awarded in snowboarding, alpine skiing, speed skating, biathlon and more. The Dutch continued their speed skating domination at the Winter Olympics. Stateside, the day's biggest news was probably American David Wise winning the first-ever men's gold medal in halfpipe skiing.
Read on for a full recap of Tuesday's medal winners, plus a gallery of some of its best photo moments.
See also: Requiem for Norway's Glorious Olympic Curling Pants
Freestyle Skiing: Men's Halfpipe
Gold: David Wise, United States
Silver: Mike Riddle, Canada
Bronze: Kevin Rolland, France

David Wise of the United States gets air during the men's ski halfpipe final at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 18.
Image: Sergei Grits/Associated Press
Snowboarding: Men's Cross
Gold: Pierre Vaultier, France
Silver: Nikolay Olyunin, Russia
Bronze: Alex Deibold, United States

France's Pierre Vaultier, left, celebrates taking the gold medal ahead of silver medalist Nikolai Olyunin of Russia, right, and bronze medalist Alex Deibold of the United States in the men's snowboard cross final at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on Feb. 18.
Image: Andy Wong/Associated Press
Speed Skating: Men's 10,000m
Gold: Jorrit Bergsman, Netherlands
Silver: Sven Kramer, Netherlands
Bronze: Bob de Jong, Netherlands
Short-Track Speed Skating: Women's 3,000m Relay
Gold: Korea
Silver: Canada
Bronze: Italy

From front to back, South Korea's Park Seung-hi, Kim Alang, Shim Suk-Hee and Cho Ha-ri react after winning the women's 3,000-meter short track speed skating relay final at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on Feb. 18
Image: Bernat Armangue/Associated Press
Nordic Combined: Individual Large Hill, Cross-Country
Gold: Joergen Graabak, Norway
Silver: Magnus Hovdal Moan, Norway
Bronze: Fabian Riessle, Germany

Norway's Joergen Graabak, right, is congratulated by Norway's silver medal winner Magnus Hovdal Moan after winning the gold medal during the Nordic combined individual Gundersen large hill competition at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on Feb. 18.
Image: Matthias Schrader/Associated Press
Biathlon: Men's 15km Mass Start
Gold: Emil Hegle Svendsen, Norway
Silver: Martin Fourcade, France
Bronze: Ondrej Moravec, Czech Republic
Alpine Skiing: Women's Giant Slalom
Gold: Tina Maze, Slovenia
Silver: Anna Fenninger, Austria
Bronze: Viktoria Rebensburg, Germany
Norway's skip, Thomas Ulsrud, delivers the rock during the team's tiebreaker match against Great Britain on Feb. 18.
Curlers Torger Nergaard and Christoffer Svae of Norway are reflected in a window during their 6-5 loss to Great Britain.
David Murdoch, Great Britain's skip, delivers a stone against Norway. Great Britain will face Sweden in Wednesday's semifinal match.
A rifle appears against the fog during the men's biathlon 15k mass start. After two days of delays, the event finally took place Tuesday.
France's Martin Fourcade adjusts his rifle during the men's biathlon 15k mass start on Feb. 18.
The men's biathlon 15k mass start ended in a photo finish, with both gold medalist Emil Hegle Svendsen of Norway (front) and silver medalist Martin Fourcade of France registering a time of 42:29.1.
Fourcade (right) collapses across the finish line just behind Svendsen.
Svendsen reacts after winning gold in the men's biathlon 15k mass start.
Skaters compete in the women's short track 3,000m relay. South Korea won the gold, followed by Canada and Italy.
Arianna Fontana of Italy (left) crashes on the ice. Despite the fall, Italy won the bronze medal.
Germany's Alexej Baumgaertner prepares for the 10,000m men's speedskating race.
Dutch coach Gerard Kemkers urges on Sven Kramer of the Netherlands during the men's speed skating 10,000m event. Kramer ultimately won silver.
The Netherlands' silver medalist Sven Kramer (left), gold medalist Jorrit Bergsma (center) and bronze medalist Bob de Jong (right) swept the meen's 10,000m speed skating event, making this the fourth 1-2-3 speed skating competition for the Dutch.
Workers prepare the hundersen large hill portion of the men's nordic combined Tuesday.
A spectator peers through a plastic bag to watch the men's nordic combined on Feb. 18.
Norway's Joergen Graabak is congratulated after winning the gold in the nordic combined individual gundersen large hill competition.
Graabak jumps for joy on the podium next to silver medalist Magnus Hovdal Moan of Norway (left) and bronze medalist Fabian Riessle of Germany (right).
Team Slovenia celebrates their first win of the Olympics after a playoff round victory over Austria. Slovenia will play Sweden, which went undefeated in the preliminary rounds, in the quarterfinals.
Russian forward Alexander Radulov makes an off-balance shot against Norwegian defender Jonas Holos playoff match on Feb. 18.
Norwegian Lars Haugen reaches for the puck after a shot from Russian forward Ilya Kovalchuk. Russia beat Norway 4-0 and will play undefeated Finland in the quarterfinals.
A spectator takes a photo in the rain before the men's snowboard cross final.
Austria's Allessandro Haemmerle crashes during the men's snowboard cross quarterfinal.
Italy's Omar Visintin is carried off the course in a stretcher after crashing in the men's snowboard cross semifinal.
A ski course worker waits with a shovel before the start of the second run of the women's giant slalom as heavy snowfall returns to Sochi.
Fog blankets the finish line of the women's giant slalom competition on Feb. 18.
Gold medalist Tina Maze of Slovenia kisses the podium during the flower ceremony after the women's giant slalom event.
Maze leaves the podium draped in the Slovenian flag.
David Wise of the United States gets air during the men's ski halfpipe final.

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