Canadian Firefighter Oldest Gold Medalist

CESANA, Italy - Duff Gibson, a firefighter from a family of Olympians, blazed to a gold medal and teammate Jeff Pain slid to silver Friday as the Canadians staked claim to world skeleton supremacy. The 39-year-old Gibson is the oldest individual gold medalist in Winter Olympics history.

Norway's Magnar Solberg was 35 when he won gold at the 1972 Sapporo Games in the 20km biathlon.

Earlier in the week, Duff predicted at least two Canadians would wind up on the podium, and he backed it up by powering down the 19-curve course in a two-run time of 1 minute, 55.88 seconds