At Sochi, Russia
(3 of 8 events Tuesday)
(21 of 26 total events)
Nation	G	S	B	Tot
Norway	4	2	4	10
Canada	4	3	2	9
Netherlands	3	2	2	7
United States	2	1	3	6
Russia	1	2	3	6
Sweden	0	3	1	4
Austria	1	2	0	3
Czech Republic	0	2	1	3
Germany	2	0	0	2
France	1	0	1	2
Italy	0	1	1	2
Slovenia	0	1	1	2
Poland	1	0	0	1
Slovakia	1	0	0	1
Switzerland	1	0	0	1
China	0	1	0	1
Finland	0	1	0	1
Britain	0	0	1	1
Ukraine	0	0	1	1

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Fast five, Tuesday edition: Things you’ll want to know about the 2014 Winter Olympics.

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FLYING TOMATO: Shaun White says he is getting antsy about his upcoming chance to make Winter Olympics history. White says in a video given to AP that he is ready to get going in the halfpipe contest on Tuesday night. If he wins, he will become the first American man to bring a gold medal home from three straight Winter Games, and only the second American athlete to do that, joining speed skater Bonnie Blair.

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INDIA BACK IN SOCHI: The IOC lifted a suspension of India’s Olympic committee, allowing its athletes who were introduced during the opening ceremony as “independent Olympic participants” to compete under their own flag. Indian luger Shiva Keshava said that would boost his countrymen in the Sochi Games and clear the way for meaningful progress for sports back home.

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SPRING GAMES: Winter is nowhere to be found at the Winter Games. Another day of warm temperatures has Sochi organizers facing questions about their ability to keep the events coming in the mountain cluster of events. Competition in the halfpipe has been delayed, as has training in the women’s downhill, while officials try to address the sloppy conditions.

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RUSSIA’S LESSON: Russian hockey legend Vladislav Tretiak says the Soviets did not respect the Americans when the two teams played in the 1980 Olympics. He says Team USA’s “Miracle on Ice” victory taught the Russians a lesson about taking teams lightly. “We did not have the respect for the competitors at that time,” Tretiak said.

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CANADA, NETHERLANDS JUMP IN MEDALS: Canada jumped to the top of the medal standings thanks to its dominance in freestyle skiing, taking six of nine medals possible in three events, including a gold and bronze Tuesday in the women’s slopestyle. The Dutch showed their own prowess in speedskating, jumping to second in the medal standings after 18 events by sweeping the men’s 500-meter race. Eight more golds were up for grabs Tuesday.

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Fast five, Monday edition: Things you’ll want to know about the 2014 Winter Olympics.

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KRAMER MAY SKIP SHORT RACE: Dutch speedskating star Sven Kramer says he’ll likely skip a 1,500-meter to focus on a 10,000-meter race he lost in embarrassing fashion four years ago when he moved into a wrong lane. Kramer, who already won the 5,000 during the opening weekend of the Olympics, says the shorter distance would “likely” be too much of a distraction during his preparation for the longer race on Feb. 18.

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FILLING EMPTY SEATS: Organizers for the Sochi Games are using volunteers to fill the many empty seats at some of the less popular events. Spokeswoman Alexandra Kosterina says some volunteers enrolled in a motivation program are offered tickets to see competition after hours. Events like figure skating have been packed, but others like biathlon have been half-empty. London organizers used volunteers and troops to help fill venues in 2012.

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RUSSIA STORMS AHEAD: It took an extra day, but Russia is starting to get results in its home games. The host nation was the top medal mover on the second day of medal competitions, with four medals in eight contests. It had five more shots at medals on Monday.

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NORWAY REPRIMANDED: The International Olympic Committee is reprimanding athletes for wearing items commemorating the dead. Spokesman Mark Adams says the IOC sent a letter to the Norwegian Olympic Committee after its women’s cross-country skiers wore black armbands on Saturday in honor of a teammate’s brother, who died on the eve of the Sochi Games. Adams says athletes should find “a better place” to express their grief.

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SKI JUMP TRAINING CANCELED: Most of the contenders in the normal hill ski jumping competition took the day off Monday, skipping training session because the weather was too hot. Temperatures of up to 15 Celsius (59 Fahrenheit) and sunny skies softened the snow in the landing area at the RusSki Gorki Jumping Center, forcing organizers to cancel the first jump and postpone the second of three jumps.

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Different American, same result for Maria Hoefl-Riesch — another Olympic gold in the super-combined.

Just as she did four years ago at the Vancouver Games, Hoefl-Riesch found herself trailing an American after the downhill leg before using her slalom skills to vault into first place and successfully defend her Olympic title in the dual-run event.

The German finished less than a second ahead of both silver medalist Nicole Hosp of Austria and Julia Mancuso of the United States, who won the bronze, just as she did in 2010.

Lindsey Vonn had the fastest downhill time in Vancouver, but when Vonn skied out on the slalom, Hoefl-Riesch roared back to claim gold. This time, Vonn is out with an injury, and Mancuso replaced her at the top the standings after the downhill.

In the Olympic Park, Charles Hamelin of Canada raced to the 1,500-meter short track speedskating gold medal, and Viktor Ahn earned the bronze to give Russia its first-ever short track medal.

Medals were also being awarded in men’s 500-meter speedskating, men’s 12.5-kilometer biathlon pursuit, and men’s moguls.

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ALPINE SKIING: Hoefl-Riesch was fifth fastest in the opening downhill leg, trailing Mancuso by 1.04 seconds. The German’s two-run time of 2 minutes, 34.62 seconds was 0.40 seconds faster than Hosp. Mancuso, who finished 0.53 behind Hoefl-Riesch, won her fourth career Olympic medal in Alpine skiing. No other American woman has won more than two.

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SHORT TRACK SPEEDSKATING: At 29, Hamelin was the oldest skater in the first final of the short track competition. The wily veteran maintained a top-three position throughout most of the 14-lap race, leaving enough at the end to defeat a loaded field, including Ahn and silver medalist Han Tianyu of China. Ahn was a three-time gold medalist for his native South Korea, but after missing the Vancouver Games he changed his name and became a Russian citizen. When he stepped on the medals podium, the mostly Russian crowd erupted in wild cheers.

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Fast five, Sunday edition: Things you’ll want to know about the 2014 Winter Olympics.

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RUSSIA WINS FIRST MEDAL: Host Russia won its first medal of the 2014 Sochi Games, with Olga Graf taking bronze in the women’s 3,000-meter speedskating final. Russia’s best chance for its first gold, perhaps, comes in the newly-created team figure skating competition on Sunday night. Russia held a big lead after the short programs and the men, women and ice dancing pairs skate their long programs.

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US SLOPESTYLE SWEEP: “Even though it’s just another competition, the stage and the outreach that this event connects to is out of control,” snowboarder Jamie Anderson said after completing an American gold sweep in slopestyle. Sage Kotsenburg won on the men’s side. Before showcasing her skills, Anderson said she enjoyed a brief “Zen” moment at the top of the course.

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UKRAINE’S BID: Officials spearheading Lviv’s campaign for the 2022 Winter Olympics say the political crisis at home has not deterred their effort to secure the games. Acting Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Vilkul was peppered with questions about the anti-government demonstrations that have gripped the country for months. Vikul says the Olympics “are above politics” and a winning bid could help unite the country.

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BODE’S DISAPPOINTMENT: Bode Miller was king of the Sochi slopes in training, blazing to two of the three fastest times last week in practice during the men’s downhill and setting himself up as a favorite heading into Sunday’s final. But the 36-year-old wasn’t the same guy with a medal on the line. The most decorated American skier in Olympic history slogged to an eighth place finish, far out of medal contention.

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LOCH’S RUN: Germany’s Felix Loch was attempting to become the third man to successfully to defend the Olympic title in luge, with the second half of competition Sunday night. Germany’s Georg Hackl won three straight golds from 1992 through 1998, while Italy’s Armin Zoeggeler went back-to-back in 2002 and 2006.

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Fast five, Saturday edition: Things you’ll want to know about the 2014 Winter Olympics.

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LET THE GAMES BEGIN: And they do. The first five gold medals of the Sochi Games were up for grabs Saturday, including: men’s 10-kilometer biathlon sprint, women’s 7.5-kilometer + 7.5 kilometer skiathlon, women’s freestyle ski moguls, men’s snowboard slopestyle and men’s 5000-meter speedskating.

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THAT MISSING RING: “I don’t see what the problem is, to be honest,” International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams says of questions about Russian state television’s use of rehearsal footage to mask the fact that one of five Olympic rings didn’t light up during Sochi’s opening ceremony. While the 40,000 spectators in the stadium saw the glitch, Russian state television cut away to air the recorded images showing all five rings joining together and fireworks exploding.

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HIJACK RATIONALE: More information is emerging on the 45-year-old Ukrainian man who authorities say tried to hijack a Turkey-bound commercial flight and divert it to Sochi on the day of the Winter Olympics’ opening ceremony. They say he wanted to press for the release of anti-government protesters in his country. Turkey’s transport minister suggests the man probably acted alone.

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INTERESTING CHOICE: The IOC is also defending Russia’s choosing of figure skating icon Irina Rodnina as one of the torchbearers for the Sochi opening ceremony. Rodnina, a three-time gold medalist, drew criticism in September for tweeting a photo of U.S. President Barack Obama that some felt was racist. Sochi Organizing Committee President Dmitry Chernyshenko says the Olympics is about sports, not politics.

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BREAK DOWN THE DOOR: Locked in a bathroom in the athletes’ village, U.S. bobsledder Johnny Quinn found a novel way out: crashing through the door. The former NFL player with Green Bay and Buffalo posted a photo of a gaping hole in the former door. A U.S. team spokeswoman couldn’t say whether Quinn will have to pay for it.