Saturday, February 27, 2010

Days 10-16 (February 21-27)

Day 10- February 21 

Bode Miller of the USA wins gold in men's Alpine Skiing Super Combined. Ted Ligety of the USA finished 5th. Croatia's Ivica Kostelic wins the silver while Silvan Zurbriggen of Switzerland wins  bronze. 

In men's Ice Hockey, the USA beat Canada 5-3. 

In men's two man bobsled, the USA team of Steven Holcomb and Curtis Tomasevicz finished in 6th place.

In women's speedskating,  1500m America's Heather Richardson and Jennifer Rodriguez finished 16th and 18th respectively. 

In men's Ski Cross,  Casey Puckett of the USA finished 23rd. 

 In men's Biathlon 15KM Mass Start, American Tim Burke finished 18th. 

In women's Curling Sweden beat the USA 9-3 and earlier in the day Canada beat the USA 9-2.

In men's curling Great Britain beat the USA 3-2. 

In women's Figure Skating Ice Dance, after the first day the USA team of Meryl Davis and and Charlie White are in 2nd place while the other USA team of Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto were in 4th place. 

Medal count through Feb. 21 

 USA 7 gold 7 silver 10 bronze - 24 total Germany 6 gold 7 silver 5 bronze - 18 total Norway 5 gold 3 silver 4 bronze - 12 total Canada 4 gold 4 silver 1 bronze - 9 total' Korea 4 gold 4 silver 1 bronze - 9 total 

 Day 11- February 22 

 In women's Figure Skating Ice Dance,  the USA team of Meryl Davis and Charlie White won silver while the other USA team of Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto finished 4th. The Canadian team of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won the gold while Oksana Domina and Maxim Shabalin of Russia won the bronze. 

In Men's Curling,  Canada beat the USA 7-2 and later in the day the USA lost to China 11-5. 

The USA beat Sweden 9-1 in women's Ice Hockey. 

The USA men's Ski Jumping team finished 11th. 

 Medal count through Feb. 22 

 USA 7 gold 8 silver 10 bronze - 25 total Germany 7 gold 9 silver 5 bronze - 21 total Norway 6 gold 3 silver 5 bronze - 14 total Russia 2 gold 3 silver 6 bronze - 11 total Canada 5 gold 4 silver 1 bronze - 10 total

 Day 12 - February 23 

In men's team Nordic Combined 4 X 5km relay, the USA team of Brett Camerota, Todd Lodwick, Johnny Spillane and Bill Demong wins silver. Austria wins gold while Germany wins bronze. 

After the first day of women's Figure Skating short program,  American Rachel Flatt was 5th and Mirai Nagasu was 6th. Yu-Na Kim of Korea was in first place, Japan's Mao Asada was in 2nd place and Joannie Rochette of Canada was 3rd. 

Switzerland beat the USA in women's Curling 10-3 and earlier in the day the USA lost to China 6-5.

Bode Miller of the USA did not finish the men's Alpine Skiing Giant Slalom. Ted Ligety of the USA finished 9th. Carlo Janka of Switzerland won the gold while Norways's Kjetil Jansrud and Aksel Lund Svindal won silver and bronze respectively. 

In men's 10000m speedskating, Jonathan Kuck of the USA finished 8th. Seung Hoon - Lee of Korea wins  gold, Ivan Skobrev of Russia wins silver and Bob de Jong of the Netherlands wins bronze. 

Medal count through Feb. 23 

 USA 7 gold 9 silver 10 bronze - 26 total Germany 7 gold 9 silver 7 bronze - 23 total Norway 6 gold 5 silver 6 bronze - 17 total Russia 3 gold 4 silver 6 bronze - 13 total Canada 6 gold 4 silver 1 bronze - 11 total 

 Day 13 - February 24 

In women's Bobsled,  the USA team of Elana Myers and Erin Pac wins bronze. Bree Shaaf and Emily Azevedo of the USA finished 5th while the USA's Michelle Rzepka and Shauna Rohbock finished 6th. Canada's Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse wins gold while Canada's Hele Upperton and Shelly-Ann Brown wins silver.

In women's Short Track Speedskating 3000m relay,  the USA team of USA Katherine Reutter, Alyson Dudek, Kimberly Derrick, Allison Baver and Lana Gehring wins bronze. China wins gold and Canada wins silver. Korea was disqualified for bumping China. 

The USA beat Switzerland 2-0 in men's Ice Hockey.

In women's Freestyle Skiing Aerials,  the USA did not medal. American's Lacy Schoor, Ashley Calwell and Emily Cook finished in 9th, 10th and 11th places respectively. Gold was won by Australia's Lydia Lasilla while Nina Li of China wins silver and Xinxin Guo also of China wins bronze.

In the women's Alpine Skiing Giant Slalom first run,  Lindsey Vonn of the USA crashed into the fence and broke her pinkie. Julia Mancuso also of the USA was waved to start her run with Vonn still on the course. She was flagged and told to start over again. It affected her run and she was in 18th place after the first run. Sarah Schleper of the USA was in 14th place. Elisabeth Goergl of Austria was in 1st place.

Medal count through Feb. 24 

 USA 7 gold 9 silver 12 bronze - 28 total Germany 7 gold 10 silver 7 bronze - 24 total Norway 6 gold 6 silver 6 bronze - 18 total Canada 7 gold 6 silver 2 bronze - 15 total Russia 3 gold 4 silver 6 bronze - 13 total 

Day 14 - February 25 

In men's Freestyle Skiing men's Aerials, Jeret Peterson of the USA won silver. American Ryan St. Onge finished 4th. Alexei Grishin of Belarus wins gold and Zhongqing Liu of China wins bronze.

In Nordic Combined - Individual Large Hill/10 km CC, the USA took the top 2 spots. Bill Demong wons gold while Johnny Spillane wins silver. Bernhard Gruber of Austria wins bronze.

In women's Ice Hockey,  Canada beat the USA 2-0 to win gold. USA wins a silver medal.

In women's Figure Skating,  no American won a medal. Mirai Nagasu of the USA finished in 4th place while Rachael Flatt also of the USA finished 7th.  Yu-Na Kim of Korea wins gold. The Silver went to Mao Asada of Japan while Joannie Rochette of Canada wins bronze.

In women's Alpine Skiing Giant Slalom,  Julia Mancuso of the USA finshed 8th. Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany wins gold, Tina Maze of Slovenia wins silver while Elisabeth Goergl of Austria wins bronze.

Medal count through Feb. 25 

USA 8 gold 12 silver 12 bronze - 32 total Germany 8 gold 11 silver 7 bronze - 26 total Norway 7 gold 6 silver 6 bronze - 19 total Canada 8 gold 6 silver 3 bronze - 17 total Russia 3 gold 4 silver 6 bronze - 13 total 

Day 15 - February 26 

The USA beats Finland 6-1 in men's Ice Hockey to advance to the gold medal game against Canada. 

In men's Short Track Speedskating men's 5000m relay, the USA team of USA Apolo Anton Ohno, Travis Jayner, J.R Celski, Jordan Malone and Simon Cho wins bronze. Olivier Jean, Charles Hamelin, Francois-Louis Tremblay, Guillaume Bastille, and Francois Hamelin of Canada wins gold while the Korean team of Ho-Suk Lee, Yoon-Gy Kwak, Seoung Il Kim, Jung-Su Lee and Si-Bak Sung wins silver.

Katherine Reutter of the USA won silver in the women's Short Track Speedskating 1000m. Meng Wang of China wins gold while Seung-Hi Park of Korea wins bronze. 

In men's 500m Short Track Speedskating,  Apolo Anton Ohno of the USA was disqualified and finished 8th overall after being disqualified in the finals because he allegedly pushed Korean speedskater Si-Bak Sung in the back causing him to fall. Charles Hamelin of Canada wins gold, Si-Bak Sung of Korea wins silver and Francois-Louis Tremblay also of Canada wins bronze. 

In the women's Alpine Skiing Slalom,  American Lindsey Vonn did not finish while Sarah Schleper of the USA finished 16th. Maria Riesch of Germany wins gold. Marlies Schild of Austria wins silver and Sarka Zahrobskam of the Czech Republic wins bronze. 

Medal Count through Feb. 26 

USA 8 gold 13 silver 13 bronze - 34 total Germany 9 gold 11 silver 7 bronze - 27 total Canada 10 gold 7 silver 4 bronze - 21 total Norway 8 gold 6 silver 6 bronze - 20 total 

Day 16 - February 27 

In men's Speedskating Team Pursuit, The USA team of Trevor Marsicano, Chad Hedrick, Brian Hansen and Jonathan Kuck wins silver while Denny Morrison, Lucas Makowsky and Mathieu Giroux of Canada wins gold and Simon Kuipers, Mark Tuitert, Sven Kramer and Jan Blokhuisen of the Netherlands wins bronze. 

In Snowboard - Men's Parallel Giant Slalom,  American Chris Klug finished 7th. Jasey Jay Anderson of Canada wins gold, Benjamin Karl of Austria wins silver and Mathieu Bozzetto of France wins bronze.

Steven Holcomb, Steve Mesler, Curtis Tomasevicz, and Justin Olsen of the USA wins gold in the men's four man Bobsled. The German team of Kevin Kuske, Andre Lange, Martin Putze and Alexander Roediger wins silver while David Bissett, Lascelles Brown, Chris le Bihan, and Lyndon Rush of Canada wins bronze.

In women's Speedskating Team Pursuit,  the USA team of Catherine Raney, Nancy Swider-Pelz Jr., Jennifer Rodriguez and Jilleanne Rookard finished 4th. Germany wins gold, Japan wins silver and Poland wins bronze.

American Bode Miller did not finish the Men's Alpine Skiing Slalom. Giuliano Razzoli of Italy wins gold, Ivica Kostelic of Croatia wins the silver and Andre Myhrer of Sweden wins bronze. 

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 Medal Count through Feb. 27 

 USA 9 gold, 14 silver, 13 bronze - 36 total Germany 10 gold, 12 silver, 7 bronze - 29 total Canada 13 gold 7 silver 5 bronze - 25 total Norway 8 gold 8 silver 6 bronze - 22 total Austria 4 gold 6 silver, 6 bronze - 16 total

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