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Finland's Lajunen wins nordic combined in Olympics

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Samppa Lajunen of Finland raises his arms to finish first in the nordic combined sprint event for his third gold medal at the 19th Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City on Feb. 22.

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Lajunen takes lead after jump portion of nordic combined sprint

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Samppa Lajunen of Finland leads the nordic combined sprint event after a leap of 126.5 meters in the jumping competition at the Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games on Feb. 21.

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Finland's Lajunen wins nordic combined

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Samppa Lajunen of Finland celebrates winning the nordic combined individual event at the 19th Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City on Feb. 10.

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Finland surge into lead in Olymic

Finland's Samppa Lajunen salutes the crowd after securing the lead in the Nordic combined team event after the ski jumping section on Feb. 19. The Finns placed themselves in a strong position to take the Olympic gold after three 90-meter-plus jumps in the second round took them past Austria and into the lead at Hakuba, central Japan.

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Norwegian Vik-tory in Nordic combined

Norway's Bjarte Engen Vik celebrates his victory in the Olympic men's Nordic combined Feb. 14 in Hakuba, central Japan. Finland's Samppa Lajunen took the silver and Valery Stolyrov of Russia the bronze. Japan's Kenji Ogiwara finished fourth.

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Lajunen takes lead after jump portion of nordic combined sprint

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Samppa Lajunen of Finland leads the nordic combined sprint event after a leap of 126.5 meters in the jumping competition at the Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games on Feb. 21.

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Finland's Lajunen wins nordic combined in Olympics

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Samppa Lajunen of Finland raises his arms to finish first in the nordic combined sprint event for his third gold medal at the 19th Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City on Feb. 22.

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Lajunen wins World Cup nordic combined sprint

NOZAWA ONSEN, Japan - Finland's Samppa Lajunen approaches victory in a World Cup nordic combined sprint meet on Feb. 8. Lajunen nailed Tuesday's longest leap and then shook off a challenge by Olympic champion Bjarte Engen Vik of Norway in the cross country leg at Nozawa Onsen for his sixth victory of the season.