Results and 23 Photos From the Winter Olympics' First Medal Rounds

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Sam Laird
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Results and 23 Photos From the Winter Olympics' First Medal Rounds
Sven Kramer of the Netherlands skates to first place in the men's 5,000-meter speedskating race, breaking his own Olympic record from Vancouver, in Sochi Russia, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014. Credit: Pavel Golovkin

After all the "Sochi Problems," after Friday's epic opening ceremony, the 2014 Winter Olympics brought us something we hadn't yet seen on Saturday: Medal rounds!

Sage Kotsenburg started the day by winning the first-ever snowboarding slopestyle contest in Olympic history. Sisters Justine and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe from Canada capped off Saturday by taking gold and silver, respectively, in the women's freestyle moguls. Those were the day's biggest stories, but read on for the day's full medal recap. Below that, you'll find 23 photos from Sochi so far.

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Biathlon: Men's 10km Sprint

Gold: Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, Norway

Silver: Dominik Landertinger, Austria

Bronze: Jaroslav Soukup, Czech Republic

Cross-Country: Ladies Skiathlon 7.5km Classic + 7.5km Free Skiathlon

Gold: Marit Bjoergen, Norway

Silver: Charlotte Kalla, Sweden

Bronze: Heidi Weng, Norway

Snowboard: Men's Slopestyle

Gold: Sage Kotsenburg, United States

Silver: Staale Sandbech, Norway

Bronze: Mark McMorris, Canada

Speedskating: Men's 5,000m

Gold: Sven Kramer, Netherlands

Silver: Jan Blokhuijsen, Netherlands

Bronze: Jorrit Bergsma, Netherlands

Freestyle Skiing: Ladies' Moguls

Gold: Justine Dufour-LaPointe, Canada

Silver: Chloe Dufour-LaPointe, Canada

Bronze: Hannah Kearney, United States

And Now For Some Photos ...

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