CLAUDIA PECHSTEIN LOOKS AT HER GOLD MEDAL DURING THE AWARD CEREMONY
Claudia Pechstein of Germany (R) looks at her gold medal after setting a new world record of six minutes 59.61 seconds in the Olympic women's 5,000 metre speed skating finals in Nagano February 20. Fellow German Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (L) took silver and Lyudmila Prokasheva of Kazakhstan won the bronze.
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