Yun Sung-bin of South Korea reacts after winning the gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics on Friday. — Reuters PYEONGCHANG, Feb 16 (Reuters): South Korea's "Iron Man", Yun Sung-bin rocketed to the men's skeleton gold on Friday to become the first athlete outside Europe or North America to win an Olympic sliding medal after dominating the event at the Pyeongchang Games.
"I just want to turn my phone off and go to sleep," Yun told reporters after his historic win.
Yun, who won the hosts' second gold of the Games, finished 1.63 seconds ahead of Nikita Tregubov, an Olympic Athlete from Russia, while Briton Dom Parsons took bronze after five-time world champion and Olympic silver medallist Martins Dukurs of Latvia made mistakes in his final run.
"I was gutted after that fourth run, I thought I'd binned it," Parsons told Reuters.
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