Francesco Friedrich completed a first-ever Olympic bobsleigh repeat double on Sunday as Germany took home a stunning ninth gold medal from the 10 events at the Beijing Games sliding centre. Friedrich and his team-mates Thorsten Margis, Candy Bauer and Alexander Schüller topped the four-man event a few days after he and Margis had also won the two-man competition. Friedrich is the first pilot to win both bob events at successive Games, having also triumphed in them in 2018. Johannes Lochner took silver as in the two-man event .37 of a second back. Canada’s Justin Kripps denied a second German s…