Finland came third time lucky when they beat the Russian Olympic Committee team 2-1 in the men’s ice hockey final to earn the last gold medal of the Beijing Games on Sunday. Finland have long been among the leading ice hockey nations and won three world titles, the last one in 2019. But at the Olympics they were beaten in their two previous finals, by the Soviet Union in 1988 and 2006 to Sweden, before finally succeeding. It didn’t start well for them as the Russian team took the lead midway through the first period from Mikhail Grigorenko. But Ville Pokka levelled four minutes into the second…