SOCHI, Russia, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Dario Cologna, thriving in mild conditions and on soft snow, won the 15-kilometer cross-country race Friday for his second gold medal of the Olympics.
With the sun out, the temperatures warming and the snow becoming increasingly more difficult to plow through, Cologna won the classic-style race by 28.5 seconds. That was in contrast to his dramatic victory in the skiathlon race, earlier in the Olympics, in which he put on a finishing kick to edge Sweden's Marcus Hellner by four-tenths of a second.