Olympic Gold to Nils van der Poel

Swedish superstar Nils van der Poel won the men’s 5,000-meter race in an Olympic record time Sunday, continuing a superlative season in which he has won every distance race he has entered. Van der Poel did an amazing recovery in the last leap of the race to grab the gold medal.

His victory produced Sweden’s first speedskating Olympic medal since the 1988.