A Tribute to The Winter Olympics

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The Winter Olympics Day 8

Olympics-Winter Games trivia

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Five things you may not know about the Winter Olympics: 1. The first Winter Games to have more than 1,000 athletes were in Innsbruck in Austria in 1964 when 1,186 took part. 2. Despite German pre-eminence in recent years, the Winter Games have not been held in Germany since 1936. 3. Newly crowned women's combined gold medallist Janica Kostelic of Croatia used to occasionally sleep in her father's car on her early days on the ski circuit. 4. The combined ages of the South Korean gold and silver medallists in the women's short track 1,500 metres here on Wednesday was just 32. The winner is 15, the runner-up 17. 5. About 1.6 million spectators are expected at the various venues over the 17 days of the Salt Lake Games.

07:30 02-15-02

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Olympics-Bobsleigh-British commando's dream is as good as gold

PARK CITY, Utah, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Some athletes are satisfied with nothing else than a medal in the Olympics. British bobsledder Lee Johnston would be delighted with a top-10 finish, preferably staying the right way up all the way down.

"I'm in the Royal Marines and if I can come in the top 10 there's a good chance I can train full-time for the next Olympics," Johnston said after the sixth and final training run for the two-man bobsleigh event on Saturday.

The 29-year-old Royal Marines Commando has been encouraged by his training performances this week.

"My runs have been very good. I'm surprised and a lot of people were also surprised," the driver of the British No. 1 bob said.

"I've been staying focused and there's no pressure to win. It would be a dream if I could come in sixth or eighth."

Those Salt Lake City omens already look good, especially when compared with the Nagano Games four year ago.

During a training run -- before Johnston ended up in 20th place in the main event in 1998 -- he managed to overturn his two-man bob and travelled the last five corners upside down.

Johnston, who earned a judo black belt when he was 16, only got interested in bobsleigh around 1995.

His best result came in the 2001 world championships, when he came 12th in the four-man.

22:54 02-15-02

Olympics-Ice hockey-Sundin, Sweden torpedo Canada

By Alan Crosby

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Mats Sundin got the better of his Toronto Maple Leafs teammate Curtis Joseph as Sweden torpedoed Canada 5-2 in their men's ice hockey Olympic final round game on Friday.

Sundin found the back of the net twice on Canadian goalie Joseph and added an assist to lead the Swedes to victory.

Washington Capitals forward Ulf Dahlen, San Jose Shark Niklas Sundstrom and Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Kenny Jonsson also scored for Sweden, which used the so-called torpedo system to perfection early in the game.

The torpedo is a high-risk checking system where two forwards chase the puck into the zone and try to pressure the defense into mistakes. The system can also backfire since it leaves the team using it open to attack.

"We knew Canada would come out strong so we tried to just hold on and then counter attack. Once we got our rhythm, our system helped slow them down," Sundin said.

Sweden also seemed to adapt better to the bigger Olympic ice surface while Canada often looked lost and rarely took advantage of the long breakout passes the international game allows since the centre red line is not used.

Canada's defense did all the offensive damage with Colorado Avalanche's Rob Blake and Edmonton Oiler Eric Brewer scoring. Canada looked to be on a roll when Eric Lindros scored just seconds after Brewer in the third period but the goal was disallowed because Mike Peca was standing in the goal crease.

Tommy Salo was outstanding in goal for the Swedes. The Edmonton Oilers netminder stopped 35 shots. Joseph faced 25 shots.

"Tommy was hot tonight. We threw a lot of pucks at the net, but he kept them in the game," Brewer said.

The loss is not terribly damaging to Canada in this round as the round-robin format over the first three games only determines the seedings for the quarterfinals which begin on Wednesday.

"Obviously we didn't play the way we wanted to, the outcome was not what we wanted. But this is the beauty of the Olympics -- you've got two more games before the (knockout round) starts," Canadian captain Mario Lemieux said.

"This gives us a chance to adjust...over the next two or three days," he added.

Canada is trying to win the gold for the first time in 50 years.

21:06 02-15-02

Olympics-Ice hockey-Russian goalie gets medal after 10 years

By Gennady Fyodorov

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb 15 (Reuters) - While it took Canadian figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier four days to get their Olympic gold medals, Russia goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin had to wait a decade for his.

Khabibulin, who played on the gold-medal winning Unified Team which took the place of the Soviet Union at the 1992 Albertville Olympics, had his medal taken away by Soviet coach Viktor Tikhonov.

"I was the third goaltender on that team and I watched the final from the stands," said Khabibulin, who at 19 was the second youngest member of the team.

"After the final everyone jumped on the ice to receive their medals but I just stayed at my place.

"I never saw my gold medal. I was told that Tikhonov got my medal but he was not going to give it back to me because he always wanted to have one for himself," Khabibulin recalled in a recent interview with Reuters.

Only players, and not coaches, receive Olympics medals.

"Later he just told me, 'You didn't play in any of the games, so you don't deserve the medal,"' said Khabibulin.

The incident upset Khabibulin so much that he turned down a chance to play for Russia at the 1998 Nagano Games where the Russians won the silver medal.

TEN-YEAR WAIT

Sale and Pelletier were awarded gold medals Friday after being beaten in the pairs competition Monday night by improper judging.

Just one day earlier, after waiting for 10 years, Khabibulin, a three-time NHL All-Star, finally received his medal.

"I was overwhelmed with emotions when they put that medal around my neck," Khabibulin told reporters following Russia's 6-4 victory over Belarus in Friday's final round game of the Olympic tournament.

"Finally, after all these years I was able to wear the gold medal around my neck. It was very satisfying for me."

The 6-foot-1, 195-pound Russian said he received his medal in the team's locker room.

"Yesterday, we had a little ceremony with (president of the International Ice Hockey Federation) Rene Fassel and our Olympic officials present. All the guys congratulated me, it was very nice," he said.

"But after the initial emotions have come down, my first thoughts were where would I put my medal to keep it safe. I didn't want to lose it again, so I've asked our manager to put it in safe place until the Olympics are over."

Russia captain Igor Larionov added: "I felt great for him when he got his medal. He deserved it. He waited 10 years for it and finally he's got it."

Khabibulin, 29, credited Russia coach and general manager Vyacheslav Fetisov for helping him to get his medal back.

"I think mostly thanks to Slava's efforts I was able to get it back," the Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender said.

Fetisov said he felt justified to have Khabibulin finally wearing his medal.

"It was a great deal of justice. It was also the last thing that remained from the Soviet Union, from the old (Communist) system," Fetisov said.

"Unfortunately we couldn't celebrate his medal yesterday because we had the game the next morning, but I'm sure we'll find time for it later on."

19:30 02-15-02

Olympics-Medals table on the eighth day of competition

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Medals table on the eighth day of competition at the Winter Olympics on Friday:

Gold Silver Bronze Total

1. Germany 5 7 4 16

2. Norway 5 5 0 10

3. U.S. 3 6 5 14

4. Russia 3 4 2 9

5. Switzerland 3 0 1 4

6. France 2 2 1 5

7- Finland 2 1 1 4

7- Italy 2 1 1 4

9. Canada 2 0 2 4

10. Spain 2 0 0 2

11. Austria 1 2 7 10

12- South Korea 1 1 0 2

12- Netherlands 1 1 0 2

14. Estonia 1 0 1 2

15. Croatia 1 0 0 1

16. Sweden 0 1 2 2

17- Japan 0 1 1 2

17- Poland 0 1 1 2

19- Bulgaria 0 0 1 1

19- China 0 0 1 1

19- Czech Republic 0 0 1 1

Note: Two golds, no silver awarded in the figure skating

pairs programme

Two silvers, no bronze awarded in men's

cross-country combined pursuit.

18:55 02-15-02

Olympics-Luge-Country switch pays off for slider Ives

By Alan Baldwin

PARK CITY, Utah, Feb 15 (Reuters) - If you can't beat them, join them -- and that is what Canadian-born Clay Ives did to win a luge bronze medal for the U.S. team at the Olympics on Friday.

The 29-year-old stonemason and carpenter, whose father built his own icy run through the woods at home in Ontario, competed for Canada at the last two Winter Games.

But while he was finishing 15th in singles in 1998, friend and rival Chris Thorpe took doubles silver with his then partner Gordy Sheer -- the best result for any American in the sport at Olympic level and one equalled on Friday by Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin.

Ives has dual nationality through his U.S.-born mother Linda and a year later, when Canada was unable to increase his funding, he headed south.

The combination of Thorpe-Ives paid off. There was only four thousandths of a second between bronze and silver on Friday and Ives had no regrets at being a 'turncoat'.

"I knew that question was coming," he said when the issue reared its head at a news conference.

"It feels great. I am so proud to be an American athlete here on the medal podium today.

"As we all know, Olympic athletes have to set goals and do the things they have to do along the way to meet those goals.

"I've been in two previous Olympics with Canada, my goals weren't even close to being met and it was a decision to retire or go forward and make some big decisions."

FAREWELL RACE

Friday was a farewell race for both veterans and three times Olympian Thorpe said he had been more nervous than at any other time in his career.

"It's our last race. Thorpe and Ives are officially retired," he said.

"I've never been more nervous in my life and I don't think I can be that nervous again ever."

The comment was instantly dismissed by Ives, well aware that Thorpe's wife Kriste is expecting a baby soon.

Ives spoke to Sheer on Thursday about how to handle Thorpe and the 1998 silver medallist gave him some good advice.

Ives said Sheer told him to keep Thorpe calm. When he heard him say he felt nervous before the second run, the younger man had the perfect reply.

"I said Kriste is going to have a baby in a couple of weeks. If she can do that, we can do this. Let's put one down. And we did alright," said Ives, who knew Friday was his last shot at a medal.

"When I got out of bed this morning I was thinking of some of the talks that Chris and I have done with kids and how we always say that competing and being a competitor is very important and winning isn't everything.

"But when I rolled out of bed this morning I said it is everything. I don't work for 15 years to say that just competing is okay and winning isn't everything."

17:39 02-15-02

Olympics-IOC decision on Canadians not unprecedented

By Steve Keating

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb 15 (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) decision on Friday to award Canadian figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier a belated gold medal is not unprecedented.

But it is a fairly rare event in the history of Summer and Winter Games stretching back over a century.

Olympic medals have unexpectedly changed hands or been withheld at least seven times in cases that did not involve a doping offence.

Ironically, the only other incident where an athlete received a gold medal after one had already been awarded to another competitor also involved a Canadian.

Synchronised swimmer Sylvie Frechette received her gold 18 months after competing in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics when the IOC ruled she had been the victim of a judging error.

Like Sale and Pelletier, Frechette's performance was generally recognised as gold medal caliber but she finished with silver after the Brazilian judge entered her mark incorrectly into the electronic scoring system.

The Canadian Olympic Association launched a successful campaign to have the decision overturned and Frechette finally received her medal.

In 1912, U.S. athletics star Jim Thorpe won both the decathlon and pentathlon, but his name was struck from the records after it was discovered that he had previously earned money playing baseball. Thorpe died in 1953 and the IOC presented the gold medals to Thorpe's children in 1983.

BELATED BRONZE

American Anders Haugen competed in the ski jumping in the first Winter Games in 1924 but only got the bronze 50 years later when a Norwegian historian discovered an error in the computation of the scores.

Haugen, 83, received his medal in a special ceremony and remains the only American to have won a ski jumping medal.

"The difference here is that we acted quickly, we didn't wait 50 years," said IOC director-general Francois Carrard.

In 1952, Sweden's Ingemar Johansson was disqualified for "not giving his best" and did not receive his silver medal. He went on to win the world professional boxing title in 1959 by defeating Floyd Patterson, and finally got his Olympic medal in 1981.

German pairs figure skaters Marika Kilius and Hans-Jurgen Baumler returned their silver medals in 1966 after allegations that they had signed a professional figure skating agreement before the 1964 Innsbruck Games. They were exonerated and got their medals back in 1967.

U.S. featherweight boxer Albert Robinson was disqualified for butting and did not get his silver medal during the 1968 Mexico City Games. After a protest from U.S. officials, he received the medal on his return to the United States.

In the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, Michelle Chardonnet of France and Kim Turner of the United States posted identical times in the 100-metres hurdles. Turner was presented with the bronze medal, but more than three months later, athletics chiefs reversed the decision and gave it to Chardonnet.

There are several cases where athletes have been awarded medals following the results of doping controls.

The most famous occurred at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games Canada's where Ben Johnson was stripped of his 100 metres gold after testing positive for a banned steroid.

On Friday, Canada's figure skaters Sale and Pelletier were awarded pairs gold in the wake of the judging scandal that has enveloped the competition. Russian rivals Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze will keep the gold they won in Monday's final.

17:59 02-15-02

Olympics-Snowboarding-Gold medallist Blanc, song for Cavagnoud

By Deborah Charles

PARK CITY, Utah, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Parallel giant slalom gold medallist Isabelle Blanc has written a song in honour of her late team mate Regine Cavagnoud, and she plans to sing it on Friday night.

Blanc, who upset team mate Karine Ruby to win gold in the final of the snowboarding event on Friday, has been taking singing lessons to help express herself and ease her nerves.

"I usually take my guitar...and sit in the coffee shop at the Olympic village and sing," Blanc said shortly after winning the gold medal.

"Tonight I think I will sing a special song for Regine Cavagnoud. To win today is to sing for her this song."

Cavagnoud, the super-G world champion, died in November after sustaining brain injuries in a high-speed collision with a German trainer in Austria just days after finishing third in the season-opening giant slalom at Soelden.

Her death rocked the skiing world and her team has dedicated its victories at the Salt Lake Olympics to their team mate.

Blanc -- who likes to sing songs by musicians like Tracy Chapman, Counting Crows and Ben Harper -- said she had written the song in honour of her friend.

"It's a hoping song," she said in English.

She said the song, entitled "Elle Glisse" (She's Slides), talked of how Cavagnoud was sliding and skiing in the clouds on a parallel course to her team mates on earth.

"She's done all the best, she had what she was dreaming for," Blanc said. "She left us with a strong image."

Blanc had been working hard for the past four years to overcome a heartbreaking disqualification in the giant slalom at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano.

Part of that effort included psychotherapy and singing lessons.

"I learned how to sing and how to express myself," she said. "I have two parts in me -- part sport and part dreamer."

"I love singing. Singing is a good therapy and (lets you) express what you have inside. With singing lessons I can put out all the things and be Zen."

18:10 02-15-02

Olympics-Luge-Medals-Leitner, Resch win doubles luge

PARK CITY, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Medal winners in the men's doubles luge at the Winter Olympics on Thursday:

Gold - Patric-Fritz Leitner/Alexander Resch (Germany)

Silver - Mark Grimette/Brian Martin (United States)

Bronze - Chris Thorpe/Clay Ives (United States)

12:52 02-15-02

Olympics-Figure skating-French lead, ice dance sidesteps scandal

By Laurie Nealin

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb 15 (Reuters) - France's former world champions Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat comfortably led the compulsory section of the ice dance event on Friday as figure skating took a welcome break from controversy at the Winter Olympics.

The French couple, however, were closely tracked by Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio, who deposed them as world champions last year. The Italians were in third but remained optimistic of their chances.

Russia's Irina Lobacheva and Ilia Averbukh were second after the compulsory dance which required the 24 competing couples to skate two set pattern dances -- the Quickstep and the Blues.

With two more segments still to come -- the original dance and freedance -- and the opening round worth just 20 per cent of the total score, the gold remained very much up for grabs.

Little appeared out of place in the judges' scoring. Indeed, the consistency was striking. Every couple but two were ranked in exactly the same position for their execution of each dance.

Anissina and Peizerat did not suffer without a French judge on the panel.

Canadians Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz, however, struggled, slipping backwards in the early standings to fourth, just two months after posting an upset win over the French and Italians at the Grand Prix Final.

Lithuania's Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas stood fifth.

The French were the front-runners coming in, based on their performances throughout the season.

The Russian duo were somewhat of a wild card, injury preventing them from competing at any autumn internationals.

Their first international event of the season was the European Championships, where they finished third behind the French and Italians.

The judges will remain under intense scrutiny as observers watch for any indication that they are basing their marks on anything other than the the couples' on-ice performances.

The 10 countries, from which the nine judges for each of the panels was selected, consisted of Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland, Lithuania and Israel.

Competitors and coaches here remained optimistic that their event would be fairly judged. The uproar over the pairs result, they believed, would serve to stop any possible deals among the ice dance judges.

The pairs controversy came to a head earlier on Friday when Canada's Jamie Sale and David Pelletier were promoted from silver to joint gold medalists with Russians Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze after widespread protests over the judging. A French judge has since been suspended pending an investigation.

23:22 02-15-02

Olympics-Park City is a gold mine for big sponsors

By Judith Crosson

PARK CITY, Utah, Feb 15 (Reuters) - This former mining town turned posh ski resort may have a laid back air as visitors stroll down historic Main Street, window shopping and sipping hot coffee. But don't be fooled -- American capitalism reigns.

Downtown Park City may not be an official Olympic site, but it is near several venues and is trying to make the most of its near-three week run in the sun.

Since the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, big business has played a key role in the Games, paying big bucks to splash the Olympic rings on its merchandise.

In what has been billed as a 17-day party, Park City has turned Main Street into a pedestrian mall, with local restaurants selling food on the street, bands playing and big television screens projecting Olympic events.

And everywhere big sponsors of the Games are out in force, offering free samples, Olympic trading pins and even celebrities.

One of the big hits was Mike Eruzione, captain of the 1980 U.S. hockey team that upset the Soviet Union and went on to win the gold medal in one of sport's greatest upsets .

Eruzione may be losing a little hair and putting on a few pounds, but he's bigger than a rock star these days and Coca-Cola, one of the big sponsors, snagged him for a noon appearance at its pin trading center.

"I'm not that old," the 47-year-old yells out, as he signs autographs and poses for pictures with fans.

"This is the most attention I've gotten even after the (1980) Olympics," he said as he was escorted out, fulfilling his one-hour appearance.

A sign at the Coke tent said, "All the world loves a Coke," but the cash register had another message: "No foreign currency."

ROOTS STORE A HOT SPOT

About 100 shoppers wanting to look sporty and fashionable stood in a long line, waiting to get inside the Roots store, official supplier for U.S. and Canadian teams. If they can't compete in the Games at least they could walk around looking like they do.

"It's the clothier of the American team," said Tracy Reed, standing in line with her husband James and their two sons.

She was disappointed the store had already run out of the blue berets that U.S. team members wear, but the family was going to stand in line anyway. "We heard that yesterday the line was two to three hours long," she said.

"It's very dauntingly commercial," Betheny Troyer said. She was in from Seattle to help friends serve coffee and homemade pastries at the New Dough Rising cafe, a small shop.

"We were selling Pepsi and the people from Coke made us an offer we couldn't refuse," Troyer said. So now the shop's outdoor tent offers Coke.

Each afternoon the Budweiser Clydesdale horses march down Main Street, with men from Anheuser-Busch Inc. hovering over them.

One woman was so excited to see the horses she held up her cell phone so the person on the other end could hear the horses' hooves banging on the street. "I'm one foot away," she said.

Visitors were offered free digital photos of themselves at the "Chevy Hot Zone" sponsored by General Motors, another big sponsor. The one catch: they had to stand in front of a Corvette car when the picture was taken.

06:02 02-15-02

Olympics-Figure skating-French lead, ice dance sidesteps scandal

By Laurie Nealin

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb 15 (Reuters) - France's former world champions Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat comfortably led the compulsory section of the ice dance event on Friday as figure skating took a welcome break from controversy at the Winter Olympics.

The French couple, however, were closely tracked by Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio, who deposed them as world champions last year. The Italians were in third but remained optimistic of their chances.

Russia's Irina Lobacheva and Ilia Averbukh were second after the compulsory dance which required the 24 competing couples to skate two set pattern dances -- the Quickstep and the Blues.

With two more segments still to come -- the original dance and freedance -- and the opening round worth just 20 per cent of the total score, the gold remained very much up for grabs.

Little appeared out of place in the judges' scoring. Indeed, the consistency was striking. Every couple but two were ranked in exactly the same position for their execution of each dance.

Anissina and Peizerat did not suffer without a French judge on the panel.

Canadians Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz, however, struggled, slipping backwards in the early standings to fourth, just two months after posting an upset win over the French and Italians at the Grand Prix Final.

Lithuania's Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas stood fifth.

The French were the front-runners coming in, based on their performances throughout the season.

The Russian duo were somewhat of a wild card, injury preventing them from competing at any autumn internationals.

Their first international event of the season was the European Championships, where they finished third behind the French and Italians.

The judges will remain under intense scrutiny as observers watch for any indication that they are basing their marks on anything other than the the couples' on-ice performances.

The 10 countries, from which the nine judges for each of the panels was selected, consisted of Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland, Lithuania and Israel.

Competitors and coaches here remained optimistic that their event would be fairly judged. The uproar over the pairs result, they believed, would serve to stop any possible deals among the ice dance judges.

The pairs controversy came to a head earlier on Friday when Canada's Jamie Sale and David Pelletier were promoted from silver to joint gold medalists with Russians Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze after widespread protests over the judging. A French judge has since been suspended pending an investigation.

23:22 02-15-02

Olympics-Former high jumper Balas to stand for COR presidency

BUCHAREST, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Iolanda Balas, twice former Olympic high jump gold medallist, announced her bid for the Romanian Olympic Committee (COR) presidency on Friday.

Balas, 65, said her main aim as president would be to try to rescind a life ban on Romanian hammer thrower Mihaela Melinte, imposed by COR for a doping offence.

"According to the international rules, an athlete can be banned for two years after a first doping offence," Balas told Reuters. "It's not normal to ban her for life from the olympic activity."

Melinte tested positive for the banned steroid nandrolone at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and was banned for two years by the IAAF after she lost an appeal.

"Romania cannot afford to lose Olympic trophies applying laws more draconic as the international rules are," said Balas, who set 14 world records and two Olympic titles, in 1960 and 1964.

Current COR president Ion Tiriac, who has twice failed in his bid for membership of the IOC in the last two years, introduced a life ban from any Olympic activity for performers testing positive even if it was their first doping offence.

The elections for COR presidency are scheduled for March 15.

03:34 02-15-02

Olympics-Timetable for eighth/ninth day of competition

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Timetable for the eighth and ninth day of competition at the Winter Olympics on Friday and Saturday (all times GMT):

Friday, February 15

Curling 1600 - Men's round robin - France v U.S. 1600 - Men's round robin - Norway v Denmark 1600 - Men's round robin - Britain v Finland 1600 - Men's round robin - Germany v Canada 2100 - Women's round robin - Britain v Switzerland 2100 - Women's round robin - Japan v Sweden 2100 - Women's round robin - Germany v Canada 2100 - Women's round robin - Norway v Russia 0200 (Saturday) - Men's round robin - Finland v Norway 0200 (Saturday) - Men's round robin - Canada v Switzerland 0200 (Saturday) - Men's round robin - France v Sweden 0200 (Saturday) - Men's round robin - Britian v Denmark

Cross-country 1600 - Women's 5 km classical 1830 - Women's 5 km puruit

Luge 1600 - Pairs run 1 1710 - Pairs run 2

Snowboarding 1700 - Men's parallel giant slalom final 1700 - Women's parallel giant slalom final

Ice hockey 1800 - Men's final round group D - Russia v Belarus 2100 - Women's preliminary round - Kazakhstan v Russia 2300 - Men's final round group C - Canada v Sweden 0200 (Saturday) - Men's final round group C - Czech Republic v Germany 0345 (Saturday) - Men's final round group D - Finland v U.S.

Nordic combined 2030 - 4x5 km team relay

Figure skating 2245 - Ice dancing - compulsory dance 1 0120 (Saturday) - Ice dancing - compulsory dance 2

Saturday, February 16

Nordic combined 1500 - Team normal hill trial round 1600 - Team normal hill first round 1700 - Team normal hill final round

Biathlon 1600 - Men's 12.5km pursuit 1900 - Women's 10km pursuit

Curling 1600 - Women's round robin - Canada v Japan 1600 - Women's round robin - Russia v U.S. 1600 - Women's round robin - Britain v Denmark 1600 - Women's round robin - Germany v Sweden 2100 - Men's round robin - Switzerland v Britain 2100 - Men's round robin - Finland v Sweden 2100 - Men's round robin - U.S. v Denmark 2100 - Men's round robin - Norway v Germany 0200 (Sunday) - Women's round robin - U.S. v Germany 0200 (Sunday) - Women's round robin - Canada v Denmark 0200 (Sunday) - Women's round robin - Switzerland v Sweden 0200 (Sunday) - Women's round robin - Japan v Norway

Alpine skiing 1700 - Men's super-G

Freestyle skiing 1700 - Women's aerials qualifying 2030 - Men's aerials qualifying

Ice hockey 1800 - Women's preliminary round - U.S. v Finland 2100 - Women's preliminary round - Germany v China 2345 - Men's final round group D - Finland v Belarus 0200 (Sunday) - Women's preliminary round - Canada v Sweden 0430 (Sunday) - Men's final round group D - U.S. v Russia

Speed skating 2000 - Men's 1000 metres

Bobsleigh 2200 - Two-man heat 1 0000 (Sunday) - Two-man heat 2

Short track 0100 (Sunday) - Women's 3000 metres relay semifinals 0130 (Sunday) - Women's 500 metres heats 0200 (Sunday) - Men's 1000 metres quarter-finals 0230 (Sunday) - Women's 500 metres quarter-finals 0255 (Sunday) - Men's 1000 metres semifinals 0310 (Sunday) - Women's 500 metres semifinals 0330 (Sunday) - Men's 1000 metres finals 0345 (Sunday) - Women's 500 metres finals

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