Ski Jumping The ski jumping took place with a trial round at 09:00
PST and the competition round at 10:00 PST. Jumping resumed despite complaints from co-test event winner Moan, defending Olympic champion Gottwald, and Lamy-Chappuis, the current World Cup leader and winner of the
10 km individual normal hill gold medal on the 14th. Moan described the jumps as a "joke" while a French coach called the FIS's decision as a "scandal".
Cross-Country skating to victory The start for the 10 kilometre race was staggered, with a one-point deficit in the ski jump portion resulting in a four-second deficit in starting the cross-country course. This stagger meant that the first athlete across the finish line would be the overall winner of the event.
Cross-country skiing's part of the competition was scheduled to take place at 13:00 PST that same day, Spillane won his third Olympic silver medal in this Olympics while Demong's gold followed his silver earned in the team event two days earlier. In the post-race press conference, Demong stated that Spillane's silver in the 10 km individual normal hill event was "a dream come true" on 14 February, the silver in the team event was "icing on the cake", and that his gold was "something extra". Spillane stated that if there was one person who he wanted to beat him, "...it would have been Bill". Bronze medalist Gruber commented that Demong and Spillane "...were just too strong". It marked the first time an American won a gold medal in Nordic skiing (cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, ski jumping) in the Winter Olympics. After the medal ceremony held later that evening, Demong proposed to his girlfriend,
Katie Koczynski, in front of teammates and coaches at the team headquarters near
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