Oldest Olympic athlete to win individual Gold Medal has Record-setting Games -- ends with 4th place on Feb. 22, 2014

from Yahoo! News review and coverage -- Ole Einar Bjoerndalen certainly did something special. Coming into his sixth and last Olympics, the 40-year-old Norwegian needed two medals to become the most decorated Winter Olympian of all time — and he did just that. Bjoerndalen hadn't won an individual event on the World Cup for two years but opened the Olympics by winning the men's sprint. He later added another gold in the mixed relay, which made its debut at the Games and was the first Olympic biathlon event in which men and women competed together. Bjoerndalen broke a string of records as he became the oldest Winter Olympic individual gold medalist, beat cross-country skiing great Bjoern Dahlie's record of 12 medals, and tied Dahlie's tally of eight gold medals. "I've had a great career. I'm happy with my situation," Bjoerndalen said in his typically modest manner, adding that earning two golds had been "better than I thought before the Olympics." http://news.yahoo.com/bjoerndalen-39-farewell-highlights-olympic-biathlon-121459249.html