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Aamodt did it again: win in the clutch

By Carrie Sheinberg
Special to ESPN.com

Saturday, February 18, 2006

SESTRIERE, Italy -- For 14 years, Kjetil Andre Aamodt has made himself the odds-on medal favorite in a sport where the difference between making the spread or beating it can be the width of a snowflake. This has gone on too long for Aamodt's success to be considered coincidence. In 1992, at age 20, Aamodt became the youngest Olympic gold medalist in the super-G. On Saturday, at 34, he became the oldest. The Norwegian has now won a record eight Olympic medals. The previous record of seven was ...

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