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EstonianKristina Šmigun wins the women's
7.5 + 7.5 km double pursuit event; a few hours
later, Yevgeniy Dementiev secures gold for Russia on the men's
15 km + 15 km distance.
Canada defeats
Russia 12-0 in
the women's competition. United
States defeats Germany 5-0,
keeping the predicted collision course between the two North
American powers intact.
Russian pair Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin beat
two Chinese pairs to take home the gold, posting the only composite
score over 200. Chinese pair Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao finish their free skate and win the
silver medal, despite a fall and injury to Zhang Dan after their
attempt at a quadruple throw.
Joey Cheek of the
United States
wins the gold medal at the 500 m long track event, skating both
runs in less than 35 seconds; the fastest time of any other
competitor was that of silver medalist Dmitry Dorofeyev, with a 35.17. Lee Kang-Seok of
Korea wins a bronze medal, the first Korean medal in (long track)
speed skating in 14 years.
Ted Ligety wins
gold for the United States
in the men's Combined. Then-leader Bode Miller was disqualified for straddling
a gate in the first slalom section; in addition, the leader after
the first slalom section, Benjamin Raich, skied off-course in the
second section and was also disqualified. Ivica
Kostelić of Croatia was second
and Rainer Schönfelder of Austria took the
bronze.
Sweden's first medal
in the 2006 Winter Olympics was brought home by Lina Andersson
and Anna Dahlberg, who won the gold medal in
women's team sprint, classical style. Minutes later Thobias
Fredriksson and Björn Lind did the same in men's team
sprint, giving the Swedes a sweep of the event.
RussianEvgeni Plushenko leads after the men's
short program. Plushenko's score of 90.66 was the highest for any
short program since the current scoring system was adopted in
2003.
In the women's competition, Canada defeats
Sweden 8-1 and
will face Finland in the
semi-final. USA
defeats Finland 7-3 and will face Sweden in the other semi-final
match.
High winds in the ski jumping hill forced the jury to abandon
the team competition midway through the second round. The teams
resumed the next day. The Norwegians withdrew
due of illness.
Both Canadian men's and
ladies' team pursuit teams set new Olympic records, the first of
the 2006 Olympic Games. In the men's competition the record was
subsequently broken by The
Netherlands, and then by Italy.
Evgeni
Plushenko of Russia dominates the
competition and takes gold in the men's competition ahead of Switzerland's
Stéphane
Lambiel and Canada's Jeffrey Buttle.
Plushenko sets a world record for the highest score in the free
skate since the new scoring system was adopted in 2003.
Austria wins the
men's team competition after Mario Stecher catches up with Germany'sJens Gaiser on the
final 5 km leg. Finland wins
bronze, finishing nearly a minute ahead of the rest of the
field.
The German team of Daniela Anschütz-Thoms, Anni
Friesinger, and Claudia Pechstein defeats the Canadian team to win
gold in the final of the women's team pursuit. Italy wins its first
ever Olympic speed skating gold in the men's team pursuit event.
The Italians beat the favored Dutch team in
the semifinals after Sven Kramer suffers a costly fall. In the
final, Italy defeats Canada, which took
its second silver in the Oval Lingotto.
Sweden scores
an upset victory against the United
States in the women's hockey semi-finals after a 3-2 penalty
shootout win to advance to the gold medal game. There, they
will face Canada, who
shut out Finland in the
other semi-final. This marks the first time that either the United
States or Canada has lost to a third country in an international
women's hockey competition.
Tanja
Frieden of Switzerland
takes the gold in women's snowboarding cross after Lindsey
Jacobellis of the United States
falls on the second-to-last jump while performing an unnecessary
method grab to give up the largest lead of the entire tournament.
Jacobellis settles for silver, while Canada's Dominique
Maltais takes bronze after recovering from a crash.
Duff Gibson of
Canada takes gold,
just ahead of fellow Canadian Jeff Pain. Swiss slider Gregor Stähli
wins the bronze. The 39-year-old Gibson becomes the oldest
individual gold medalist in Winter Olympics history.
The United States
takes gold and silver in the men's 1000 m with Shani Davis outskating
Joey Cheek for first.
Erben
Wennemars of the Netherlands
receives bronze. Davis' victory makes him the first black person to
win an individual gold medal in the history of the Winter
Olympics.
After a disappointing performance on the K90 hill, Austrian ski
jumpers Thomas Morgenstern and Andreas Kofler
take gold and silver on the large hill, with the smallest possible
margin of 0.1 points between them. NorwegianLars Bystøl,
winner of gold on the normal hill, places third, rather far behind
the Austrians.
Italy takes the gold
in the men's 4x10 km relay, with Italian anchor Cristian Zorzi
crossing the finish line 15 seconds ahead of the German team. Sweden takes the
bronze.
After downing Denmark 8–1, Norway becomes the
third team to qualify for the semi-finals in the women's
competition, joining Sweden and Switzerland. Canada beats Denmark 9-8,
occupying the fourth playoff spot.
In the men's competition, Canada defeats the
United States
6-3 to qualify for the semi-finals, and will play the USA again in
the first game of the medal round.
Despite missing veteran Olga Pyleva, who failed
an anti-doping test earlier in these Games, the Russian team of Albina
Akhatova, Anna Bogaliy, Svetlana Ishmuratova and Olga Zaitseva leads
from start to finish in the 4x6 km relay, posting a gold
medal-winning time of 1:16:12.5. Two-time defending gold medalists
from Germany finish 50.7 seconds behind for the silver. The French
team take the bronze, more than two minutes back.
The Swedish women's team
skipped by Anette
Norberg win the gold medal match against Switzerland
with a 7-6 double take out on the hammer of the 11th end. Canada defeats Norway in the bronze
medal match 11-5.
Shizuka
Arakawa of Japan performs a
conservative but clean free skate to defeat Sasha Cohen of the United States
and Irina
Slutskaya of Russia, who both
suffer falls and take silver and bronze, respectively. Arakawa's
win gives Japan their first medal in Turin, as well as Japan's
first figure skating gold.
Canada defeats Finland 10-4 in the
gold medal match to win the nation's first gold medal in men's
curling after winning silver in Nagano and Salt Lake
City. The United States
men's team defeats Great Britain
by a score of 8-6 to take the bronze medal, America's first medal
in curling.
In the men's competition, Sweden defeats
the Czech
Republic 7-3 to advance to the gold medal game. In the other
semifinal, Finland beats Russia 4-0.
Sweden and Finland will face off in the gold medal game, while the
Czech Republic will face Russia in the bronze medal game.
Bob de Jong of
the
Netherlands, the reigning world champion, sets the winning time
at 13:01.57 for the gold medal in the 10000 m event. AmericanChad Hedrick skates
to a silver medal, and the bronze goes to Carl Verheijen, also of the
Netherlands.
American Apolo Anton Ohno wins the men's 500 m,
earning his second career gold medal. Canada's François-Louis Tremblay wins
the silver, while Ahn
Hyun-Soo of South Korea wins bronze, earning his third
individual medal of the Olympics.
South Korea's Jin
Sun-Yu wins her third gold of the Games in the women's 1000 m.
Chinese women Wang Meng and Yang Yang (A) take the silver and bronze
respectively after 1500 m silver medalist Choi Eun-Kyung, who originally finished
third, is disqualified.
South Korea
wins the gold medal in the men's 5000 m relay, Canada takes the
silver, while the United States
gets bronze. Ahn
Hyun-Soo wins his third gold medal of the Games, medaling in
every men's short track event and bringing his total number of
medals in Torino to four. Ahn and Jin become the first Korean
athletes to win three gold medals in a single Olympics.
Clara Hughes
of Canada sets the
winning time at 6:59.07 for the gold medal in the 5000 m event. GermanClaudia
Pechstein skates to a silver medal, and the bronze goes to
another Canadian, Cindy Klassen, who wins her fifth medal
of these Games.
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