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Erin Jackson has become the first Black woman to win a speedskating medal at the Winter Olympics, and she did it with a gold.
Jackson won the 500m on Sunday with a time of 37.04 seconds, giving the American speedskating program its first medal of the Beijing Games and first individual medal since 2010.
