Double gold followed in the two and four-man teams in Turin four years later, with his fourth gold in the two-man in the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and a silver in the four-man.
Now he is aiming to make history and become the first man to win four individual golds in four successive Winter games.
The railway is a Soviet triumph of man over nature, built in an inhospitable land of extreme winter cold and mosquito-cloud filled summers.
Still, some in Chicago were caught off guard by the last gasp from Old Man Winter.
His demeanor Friday was markedly different from the man Star reporters described in the video, which the newspaper claimed was shot last winter.
In Alaska, extreme winter cold fronts can overwhelm isolated individuals like the man found frozen at his breakfast table.
Romney's departure marks a rare defeat for the man who made his fortune in business and achieved fame with his rescue of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
The young man who died was part of a second group of climbers, taking part in a winter mountaineering skills course, who were also caught in the avalanche.
Before long we were witnessing the reincarnation of a man who made three centuries against the Indians in 2002 and three more in the Ashes that winter.
New director awards went to Canada's Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais for his dark comedy, Whitewash about a man trying to survive a harsh Canadian winter, and American Sean Dunne for Oxyana, set in a rural coal mining town riddled with an addiction to pain relief medication.
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But he managed to sound like a man who knows not only about foreign affairs but also how much it costs to heat a family home in winter.
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The man in charge of welfare has told him and the prime minister that unless they cut benefits for the elderly like winter fuel payments, free TV licences and bus passes - which the PM refuses to do - that sum will prove politically impossible to find.
He is convinced that opener Denly should have been playing in England's winter one-day series - although he has been named in England's provisional 30-man squad for this summer's World Twenty20 tournament.
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