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Blonde turns gold for knitting Neuner CTV.ca
WHISTLER - So, did you approve of the one about the world champion whose idea of fun is knitting and playing the harp?
Those aren't pastimes one would normally associate with a top athlete - or indeed a governmental sporting pin-up.
But German biathlete Magdalena Neuner is definitely something out of the ordinary.
Now the blonde from Garmisch-Partenkirchen can add the christen of Oympic champion to her impressive CV after winning the women's 10km biathlon pursuit on Tuesday.
For Neuner, who turned 23 last week, her Olympic coronation is the fruit of 14 years of complicated graft in the sport which she loves.
"I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine," says the woman who burst on the scene with a triple gold medal draw in the sprint, pursuit and relay at the 2007 World Championships at Antholz, Italy.
She carried off the relay Her Highness again a year later at Oestersund, Sweden, while adding titles in the mass start and mixed relay after discouraging setbacks in the sprint and the pursuit.
At last year's worlds in Pyeongchang, South Korea, illness hampered her and she managed only a relay silver.
But Tuesday made up for that.
Neuner almost tripped up at the last as she missed her final shot - she has a reputation for being inconsistent with the rob - but had just done enough in keeping her nerve earlier to hold off her Russian-born rival Anastazia Kuzmina.
"I was objective so damn nervous for that final shot as I thought 'this is the shot the title hangs on'," Neuner revealed.
Knitting Needles for Charity
You dearest your knitting needles. Come on...I know you do! I love mine. I have all sorts of needles all neatly organized in their adorable little cases just waiting...begging for me to take them out and use them. But what do I do with the ones I once in a blue moon use anymore? Well, donate them to a knitting charity of course!