KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Tina Maze skied through rain and snow to win Olympic gold, and then swam through slush to celebrate.

In tough conditions on the slopes above Sochi, Maze won her second gold medal of the 2014 Games on Tuesday by leading the giant slalom from start to finish.

The Slovene skied cautiously and cleanly through the gates to finish 0.07 seconds ahead of Anna Fenninger of Austria.

Maze celebrated by belly-flopping onto the wet snow and pretending to swim the breaststroke.

“Didn’t you feel like in (a) swimming pool? We are all wet, so I said, `Why not?”’ Maze said. “It’s been a great day for me.”

Defending champion Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany was third, trailing 0.27 behind Maze’s two-run time of 2 minutes, 36.87 seconds.

American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin placed fifth in her Olympic debut, missing a medal by just 0.23 seconds.

“Next Olympics I go to, I’m sure as heck not getting fifth,” said Shiffrin, who will start as the favorite in the slalom on Friday.

Ice dancing

SOCHI, Russia — Canadian ice dance silver medalists Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir bemoaned the split allegiance of coach Marina Zoueva, who also works with American gold medalists Meryl Davis and Charlie White.

They spoke Tuesday, hours after the free dance was won by their Michigan training partners.

“We sometimes felt like (Zoueva) wasn’t in our corner,” Moir said, more in the way of stating a fact as he and Virtue perceived it than as a complaint. “We had some odd things happen this year. We expected Marina to be on our team and work with us like in Vancouver.”

That didn’t happen for the 2010 gold medalists, although they insisted they understood why Zoueva spent so much time with Davis and White, and they praised Zoueva for how she handled the dicey situation.

“The shoe was on the other foot,” Moir said.

“Whatever differences we had to take care of on our own,” Virtue added.

Biathlon

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Emil Hegle Svendsen of Norway edged Martin Fourcade of France in a sprint finish to win gold in the men’s 15-kilometer mass start biathlon race Tuesday.

Svendsen and Fourcade both finished in 42 minutes, 29.1 seconds, with Svendsen’s ski crossing the line a fraction earlier.

Ondrej Moravec of Czech Republic was 13.8 behind to take bronze for his second medal of the games after winning silver in the 12.5K pursuit.

It was Svendsen’s fourth career Olympic medal.

Nordic combined

KRASYANA POLYANA, Russia — Joergen Graabak broke away from a five-man group with about 100 meters left in the cross-country race to give Norway a one-two finish in the Nordic combined large hill event Tuesday at the Sochi Olympics.

Graabak finished six-tenths of a second ahead of silver medalist Magnus Moan. Fabian Riessle of Germany was 1.6 second behind and took the bronze.