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Obama to Team USA: ‘We Couldn’t be Prouder of You’

Posted on February 7, 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says America “couldn’t be prouder of” its athletes who are competing in the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

The White House released a brief video of Obama Friday. The president tells the skiers, figure skaters, snowboarders, bobsledders and other members of Team USA that they are an inspiration to the nation.

Obama tells team members America will be watching and rooting for them.

First lady Michelle Obama expressed her pride in the team on Twitter.

The U.S. has sent some 230 athletes to the Sochi Olympics, the largest delegation ever for any country at the Winter Games.

Opening ceremonies were Friday. The Games run through Feb. 23.

Officials: Turkish Plane Evacuated

Posted on February 7, 2014

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An official says authorities have subdued a man who attempted to hijack a Turkish plane to Sochi, Russia, and that the other passengers have been evacuated.

Huseyin Avni Mutlu, the Istanbul governor, says on Twitter that “the operation has ended.”

In another tweet Friday, he said all passengers were evacuated “without any problems.”

An F-16 fighter plane was scrambled as soon as the pilot signaled there was a hijacking attempt and escorted the plane safely to Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport, according to NTV television.

The news broke as athletes from nations around the world poured into the stadium for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, raising fears about security.

5 Things to Know About the Sochi Olympics

Posted on February 7, 2014February 7, 2014

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

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NO YOGURT: Chobani is the U.S. Olympic team’s official yogurt. It’s also hard to find here in Sochi. And therein lies a problem. Some 5,000 cups of Greek yogurt isn’t getting to Russia because of a customs dispute between Washington and Moscow. This is producing unhappiness but also determination. Says U.S. skier Lyman Currier: “Whether we have our yogurt or not, we’ll be able to adapt.”

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OPENING DAY: The Sochi Games have been clouded by fears of terrorism and a Russian law that has been used to discriminate against gays. Friday night’s opening ceremony gives President Vladimir Putin a chance to sweep those issues under the rug for a few hours and Russia a chance to show a different, more vibrant side to the rest of the world for the first time since Soviet Moscow hosted the Summer Games in 1980.

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WORLD LEADERS: Here’s who’s coming: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Chinese counterpart. Here’s who’s not: Barack Obama, French President Francois Holland and the prime ministers of Britain and Germany. And then there’s Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, who announced Friday he’ll be at the Sochi Olympics, held in the country that invaded his own in 1979. Organizers say some 66 leaders — including heads of state and international organizations — are joining the games.

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GOOGLE’S STATEMENT: The new Google doodle is about the Olympics, and it’s bound to be controversial. With the Winter Games opening, the company changed its logo to illustrations of athletes competing against a rainbow-colored backdrop. Google isn’t commenting on the move — it says it wants the illustration to speak for itself — but it is pretty clearly keyed toward the outcry against Russia’s law restricting gay-rights activities.

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THOSE OTHER OLYMPICS: “The Lake Placid Olympics was one of the most poorly organized.” So begins a paragraph about the contentious 1980s Olympics that appears this month in the in-flight magazine of the Russian airline Aeroflot. Also there’s this:. “The Americans used the games to wage a propaganda campaign in support of a boycott of the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow.” This was in the middle of the Cold War, and evidently at least some resentment still lingers.

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Follow AP journalists covering the Olympics on Twitter: http://apne.ws/1c3WMiu

80 Percent of Sochi Olympic Tickets Sold

Posted on February 7, 2014February 7, 2014

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Sochi Olympic organizers say more than 80 percent of tickets to events have been sold.

Russian spectators, who were allocated 70 percent of the total available, have faced lengthy lines in Sochi to collect their tickets.

Ticket collection points are operating at the airport, at railway stations in downtown Sochi and at the Olympic Park in the borough of Adler. Tickets can also be collected in Moscow.

Adler resident Oksana Yeguryan says she waited for four hours to collect a hard copy of her 20,000-ruble ($578) ticket for the opening ceremony.

Sergey Galkin came from Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains to pick up 50,000 rubles ($1,444) worth of biathlon, ski jumping and luge tickets.

5 Things to Know About the Sochi Olympics

Posted on February 6, 2014

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

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SECURITY: It’s foremost on many minds as Olympic competition begins and thousands stream into the Black Sea resort city. The Russian government says it’s doing all it can to ensure safety, and on Thursday a deputy prime minister went even further. “We can guarantee the safety of the people as well as any other government hosting a mass event,” said Dmitry Kozak.

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TOOTHPASTE: It’s the latest item to fall under scrutiny after the U.S. Homeland Security Department warned airlines flying to Russia that terrorists might try to smuggle explosives on board hidden in toothpaste tubes. The threat was passed onto airlines that have direct flights to Russia, including some that originate in the United States, a law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press.

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SNOWBOARDING: It begins, but without marquee name Shaun White, the world’s most famous snowboarder. He pulled out of slopestyle, a new Olympic event, to concentrate on the halfpipe, where he’ll have a chance to win his third straight title next week. After practice slopestyle runs, White said: “The potential risk of injury is a bit too much for me to gamble my other Olympics goals on.”

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WORLD LEADERS: It’s a record, says the Sochi Olympics’ chief organizer: Sixty-five heads of state and government and international organizations will be attending Russia’s first Winter Games. Dmitry Chernyshenko says that’s more than any other Winter Olympics and three times the number of leaders who attended the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Here’s who you won’t see, though: President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron and German President Joachim Gauck.

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OPENING APPROACHES: Friday night’s opening ceremony will showcase Russia to the world on its own terms — a storyline intended to impress the many nations in attendance and allow President Vladimir Putin to put forth the message he’s been trumpeting for months now: that his country has successfully combined its storied history with modern innovation and is ready for anything. The intended audience is as much Russians as it is the rest of the world.

SOCHI SCENE: Welcome, world _ where are you?

Posted on February 6, 2014February 6, 2014

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Olympic fans of the world, where are you?

Sochi is (more or less) ready for you to come to its Winter Games. Thousands of athletes, soldiers, journalists and herds of smiley volunteers are in place, eager to help.

So far, though, it seems like the only spectators milling about are Russian.

Dina Kobolenko is waiting for you at her tourist information stand near the Sochi train station, armed with maps of this subtropical resort on the Black Sea. She says that as of two days before the Games, she’d seen only a single foreigner — a South Korean. They couldn’t understand each other, though, so had to communicate in sign language.

Fears about terrorism and the hassle of reaching Sochi from points abroad may be keeping some foreigners away — and undermining Vladimir Putin’s plans to transform Sochi into a magnet for international tourism.

A train traveling between Olympic sites and downtown Sochi cheerily announces to visitors in English: “We wish you a pleasant journey!” But on a recent ride, its seats were half empty. And a sweep through four train cars found … not a single foreign fan.

— Angela Charlton — Twitter http://twitter.com/acharlton

Early Start Thursday for Sochi Olympics Events

Posted on February 6, 2014

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Competition at the Sochi Olympics has begun, 32 hours before the opening ceremony.

Early starts are needed because of 12 men’s and women’s medal events added since the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

Men’s snowboard slopestyle qualifying runs — without American star Shaun White, who withdrew Wednesday — got underway Thursday 10 a.m. (0600 GMT) at X-Treme Park in the mountains above Sochi.

Women’s qualifying runs were following in the afternoon, and women’s moguls qualifying was scheduled to start freestyle skiing events at 6 p.m. (1400 GMT).

Men’s slopestyle and women’s moguls are among the first medals to be awarded Saturday.

Down in Sochi, the new team figure skating competition begins 7.30 p.m. (1530 GMT) at the Iceberg Skating Palace.

The men’s short program is to be followed by the pairs.

IOC Urged Not to Pay Sports to Attend Olympics

Posted on February 5, 2014February 5, 2014

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — The IOC has been urged not to pay sports to attend the Olympics during talks on its relations with North American professional leagues.

New Zealand member Barry Maister says “we are on a slippery slope if we start paying people to come to the Olympic Games.” Maister says such payments would be “fundamentally against the Olympic movement.”

The NHL agreed a 16-day pause freeing players for Sochi after long negotiations with the International Ice Hockey Federation.

MLB’s refusal of a midseason break hampers baseball’s attempts to regain Olympic status.

IOC members opened wide-ranging debate Wednesday on future Olympic strategy. They were asked to consider “financial compensation and returns for the stakeholders for their involvement.”

Jean Claude-Killy of France says any proposal to pay Olympic athletes would be “anathema.”

AP WAS THERE: At Last, Winter Gets its Own ‘Games’

Posted on February 3, 2014February 3, 2014

CHAMONIX, FRANCE (AP) — A ragtag parade down the center of town marked the opening ceremonies of the first Winter Olympics.

Looks quaint, doesn’t it? Look closer and you’ll see just how quaint: Many of the athletes — they really were amateurs back in the day — are lugging their own equipment: hockey sticks, skates, skis and such. Then again, by 1924 standards, it was considered quite a pageant.

Ninety years after its original publication, the AP is making its original report on the opening ceremonies of the first Winter Olympics available.

The whole shebang at Chamonix in 1924 cost less than $28 million in today’s dollars, and set the tone for the winter games that followed. Unlike their bigger, brassier and traditionally much more expensive summer counterparts, they’ve been generally modest affairs ever since. But there are oligarch-sized ambitions to flip the script this time around.

When the world gathers in Sochi this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his countrymen better have plans up their sleeves for something with a little more oomph. Otherwise, they’ll have $50 billion — more than has been lavished on any previous Olympics — worth of questions to answer for.

Sochi was known once for the tea grown in the region, and later, as the site of state-run, Neoclassical-styled sanatoriums and Joseph Stalin’s favorite dacha. The plan now is to turn the summer resort town alongside the Black Sea into a staging ground for the most spectacular winter games ever, and in the bargain, turn Sochi into a destination for the ski and private jet-set.

Putin has hinted he will accept nothing less — despite repeated construction delays, reports of widespread corruption, environmental damage and unrelenting criticism over a Russian law banning “homosexual propaganda.” And even those problems seem pale in comparison to security concerns heightened after recent bombings in Volgograd and Dagestan believed to be the work of Islamic insurgents in the nearby Caucasus region.

“The result expected by us,” a defiant Putin said recently, “is a brilliant Games.”

The expectations for those first games, on the other hand, were simply to improve on a winter sports festival that had taken root in Sweden in 1901.

Fans and organizers of the Nordic Games had managed to shoehorn a figure-skating competition into the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, but they kept lobbying for games of their own. The International Olympic Committee finally went along in 1924, granting the French officials who staged the 1924 Summer Games in Paris a chance to try their hand at six winter sports — alpine and cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping and speed skating.

Sixteen events were contested over 11 days, drawing 258 athletes (including just 11 women) from 16 nations and exactly 10,004 paying customers. American speedskater Charles Jewtraw won the opening contest, the 500 meters, prompting the Boston Globe to slap the headline “Our Flag At Top Of Olympic Mast” atop The Associated Press story.

Read a few paragraphs into it and you’ll learn that the swinging-arm style that has become mandatory for sprinters since was considered revolutionary when Jewtraw and U.S. teammate Joe Moore (who finished 8th) unveiled it before a handful of “gaping” Norwegian, Finnish and Swedish coaches.

But it didn’t take long to figure out why those traditional Nordic powers were so eager to get their own Olympics.

Cross-country sensation Thorleif Haug won three golds, enabling Norway to top the medals table with 17 total. In what turned out to be a historical footnote, Haug was also awarded the bronze in the ski jump in 1924; but 50 years later a scoring error was confirmed and the medal was finally delivered — by Haug’s daughter no less — to its rightful owner, American Anders Haugen.

Finland finished second with 11, thanks to Clas Thunberg’s speed-skating haul of three golds, a silver and a bronze. The 28 medals by Norway and Finland were more than all the rest of the competing nations combined. The United States and Britain finished tied for third with four medals each. Canada won only one medal, but served notice it was a hockey power to be reckoned with by scoring 122 goals and allowing just three en route to the gold.

Here is the original dispatch from Chamonix, as reported by The Associated Press on Jan. 25, 1924.

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OLYMPIC ICE GAMES OPEN AT CHAMONIX

The Winter sports of the eighth Olympic Games were officially opened today with the customary Olympic ceremonies, presided over by Gaston Vidal, Under Secretary of State for Physical Education. M. Vidal received the oaths of amateurism by the athletes entered for the competition. The teams of all the nations represented, bearing their national flags and emblems, then paraded from the City Hall to the skating rink, where the actual competitions will begin tomorrow.

On the arrival at the rink Under Secretary Vidal declared the official opening of the sports. His voice, caught up by enormous amplifiers on top of the grand stands, was sent reverberating up the sides of the high mountains which give the Chamonix Valley its magnificent setting. At the words, the 150 athletes, awaiting the announcement, clapped on their skates, jumped on to the immense sheet of ice before them, and the eighth Olympic Games, in their modern revival, were on.

Jewtraw, United States; Gorman, Canada; Thunberg, Finland and Olsen, Norway, four of the fastest skaters here, hooked up in several turns around the rink in an impromptu race that brought the four or five thousand spectators to their feet cheering.

ATHLETES PASS IN REVIEW

Prior to the official opening of the games, when the competing teams with banners and their national emblems flying paraded from the City Hall of Chamonix through the streets of the city to the rink, they were reviewed by Count Clary, President of the French Olympic Committee: the Marquis de Polignac and Mr. Vidal.

The band of the Twenty-seventh Alpine “Blue Devils” played the national anthems of Austria, Belgium, Canada, Esthonia, the United States, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia as the group of athletes passed in that order.

The athletes of Belgium, Canada, the United States and France received the most enthusiastic welcomes. Clarence J. Abel, St. Paul, of the American hockey team, was the bearer of the Stars and Stripes, and Harry Drury, Pittsburgh, carried the American emblem. They took the Olympic oath, administered by Vidal, on behalf of the American athletes. Both swore that the American athletes would be “loyal competitors, and respect the rules and regulations in a chivalrous spirit for the honor of our country and the greater glory of sport.”

Abel stumbled over his French a few times in repeating the oath, but he told M. Vidal that he would rather be tripped up in his French delivery than while shooting for a goal in the hockey competition. This brought a cordial laugh from the Under-Secretary.

The worry over the weather, the mildness of which had threatened to prevent the starting of the games tomorrow, was dissipated today. Clear and cold conditions set in during the day and tonight the prospects are for colder conditions. It is considered certain the competition will commence tomorrow at 11 o’clock with the 500-meter race. At 3 P. M. the 5,000-meter event will be started.

Thousands of visitors have gathered in this small Alpine town on the slopes of Mont Blanc, which today, for the first time in a week, threw off its blanket of thick clouds, the peak glistening in the bright sunshine and providing a wonderful setting for the Olympics.

UNITED STATES STARS IN GOOD SHAPE

The condition of the American skaters who are to compete is all that could be expected after the difficulties they have encountered in training. They will take the ice tomorrow, fit to give stiff battle to the best skaters of any nation entered. Steinmetz, Jewtraw, Donovan, Bialis, Moore and Kaskey all expressed confidence of success today. They look for the most strenuous opposition from the Finnish team.

The American hockey players today got their second real practice since their arrival here Monday — a splendid work-out of an hour, at the end of which Manager William S. Haddock announced his present intention to line up the following team in the opening game against Belgium Monday: Alphonse A. La Croix, Boston, goal; Irving W. Small, Boston, right defense; Clarence J. Abel, St. Paul, left defense; Harry Drury, Pittsburgh, centre; Justin J. McCarthy, Boston, left wing; Willard W. Rice, Boston, right wing.

The players are a little below their best condition, owing to their enforced idleness of the last few days, but with hard work the next two days they expect to take the ice in tip-top form.

The athletes of all the nations took to the ice today with such vim and energy, stored up by reason of their, enforced idleness due to the warm weather, that their managers felt obliged to restrain their ardor. The American hockey players were called off the ice after a few minutes of exercise. William S. Haddock, Pittsburgh, manager of the team, fearing accidents because of the large numbers of skaters on the rink.

Medalists Projected by AP at the Sochi Olympics

Posted on January 27, 2014January 27, 2014

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — A list of medalists projected by The Associated Press for the Sochi Olympics:

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ALPINE SKIING

Men

Downhill

Gold — Aksel Lund Svindal, Norway

Silver — Bode Miller, United States

Bronze — Adrien Theaux, France

Super-G

Gold — Aksel Lund Svindal, Norway

Silver — Patrick Kueng, Switzerland

Bronze — Jan Hudec, Canada

Super-Combined

Gold — Aksel Lund Svindal, Norway

Silver — Ted Ligety, United States

Bronze — Alexis Pinturault, France

Giant Slalom

Gold — Ted Ligety, United States

Silver — Marcel Hirscher, Austria

Bronze — Alexis Pinturault, France

Slalom

Gold — Marcel Hirscher, Austria

Silver — Felix Neureuther, Germany

Bronze — Mario Matt, Austria

Women

Downhill

Gold — Maria Hoefl-Riesch, Germany

Silver — Tina Maze, Slovenia

Bronze — Julia Mancuso, United States

Super-G

Gold — Lara Gut, Switzerland

Silver — Anna Fenninger, Austria

Bronze — Tina Weirather, Liechtenstein

Super-Combined

Gold — Maria Hoefl-Riesch, Germany

Silver — Nicole Hosp, Austria

Bronze — Marie-Michele Gagnon, Canada

Giant Slalom

Gold — Jessica Lindell-Vikarby, Sweden

Silver — Tina Weirather, Liechtenstein

Bronze — Mikaela Shiffrin, United States

Slalom

Gold — Mikaela Shiffrin, United States

Silver — Marlies Schild, Austria

Bronze — Frida Handsdotter, Sweden

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BIATHLON

Men

Individual 20K

Gold — Emil Hegle Svendsen, Norway

Silver — Martin Fourcade, France

Bronze — Evgeny Ustyugov, Russia

Sprint 10K

Gold — Martin Fourcade, France

Silver — Simon Schempp, Germany

Bronze — Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, Norway

Pursuit 12.5K

Gold — Emil Hegle Svendsen, Norway

Silver — Anton Shipulin, Russia

Bronze — Jakov Fak, Slovenia

Mass start 15K

Gold — Martin Fourcade, France

Silver — Evgeny Ustyugov, Russia

Bronze — Tarjei Bo, Norway

Relay 4×7.5K

Gold — Russia

Silver — Germany

Bronze — Norway

Women

Individual 15K

Gold — Gabriela Soukalova, Czech Republic

Silver — Tora Berger, Norway

Bronze — Darya Domracheva, Belarus

Sprint 7.5K

Gold — Darya Domracheva, Belarus

Silver — Kaisa Makarainen, Finland

Bronze — Andrea Henkel, Germany

Pursuit 10K

Gold — Tora Berger, Norway

Silver — Kaisa Makarainen, Finland

Bronze — Gabriela Soukalova, Czech Republic

Mass start 12.5K

Gold — Tora Berger, Norway

Silver — Olga Zaitseva, Russia

Bronze — Synnoeve Solemdal, Norway

Relay 4x6K

Gold — Germany

Silver — Russia

Bronze — Ukraine

Mixed

Team Event

Gold — Norway

Silver — Czech Republic

Bronze — Russia

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BOBSLED

Two-man

Gold — Steven Holcomb, United States

Silver — Alexander Zubkov, Russia

Bronze — Beat Hefti, Switzerland

Four-man

Gold — Alexander Zubkov, Russia

Silver — Oskars Melbardis, Latvia

Bronze — Steven Holcomb, United States

Women

Gold — Kaillie Humphries, Canada.

Silver — Elana Meyers, United States

Bronze — Jamie Greubel, United States

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CROSS COUNTRY

Men

Individual Sprint

Gold — Petter Northug, Norway

Silver — Sergei Ustiugov, Russia

Bronze — Marcus Hellner, Sweden

Skiathlon

Gold — Petter Northug, Norway

Silver — Martin Johnsrud Sundby, Norway

Bronze — Maxim Vylegzhanin, Russia

15-kilometer Classic

Gold — Martin Johnsrud Sundby, Norway

Silver — Alexey Poltoranin, Kazakhstan

Bronze — Johan Olsson, Sweden

50-kilometer Freestyle

Gold — Alexander Legkov, Russia

Silver — Martin Johnsrud Sundby, Norway

Bronze — Petter Northug, Norway

4×10-kilometer relay

Gold — Norway

Silver — Russia

Bronze — Sweden

Team Sprint

Gold — Russia

Silver — Norway

Bronze — Sweden

Women

Individual Sprint

Gold — Kikkan Randall, United States

Silver — Marit Bjoergen, Norway

Bronze — Denise Herrmann, Germany

Skiathlon

Gold — Marit Bjoergen, Norway

Silver — Justyna Kowalczyk, Poland

Bronze — Therese Johaug, Norway

10-kilometer Classic

Gold — Justyna Kowalczyk, Poland

Silver — Marit Bjoergen, Norway

Bronze — Therese Johaug, Norway

30-kilometer Freestyle

Gold — Marit Bjoergen, Norway

Silver — Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen, Norway

Bronze — Justyna Kowalczyk, Poland

4×5-kilometer relay

Gold — Norway

Silver — Russia

Bronze — Finland

Team Sprint

Gold — Norway

Silver — Sweden

Bronze — Finland

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CURLING

Men

Gold — Canada

Silver — Sweden

Bronze — Norway

Women

Gold — Britain

Silver — Sweden

Bronze — Canada

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FIGURE SKATING

Men

Gold — Patrick Chan, Canada

Silver — Yuzuru Hanyu, Japan

Bronze — Javier Fernandez, Spain

Women

Gold — Yuna Kim, South Korea

Silver — Mao Asada, Japan

Bronze — Julia Lipnitskaia, Russia

Dance

Gold — Meryl Davis and Charlie White, United States

Silver — Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, Canada

Bronze — Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat, France

Pairs

Gold — Tatiana Voloshozhar and Maxim Trankov, Russia

Silver — Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy, Germany

Bronze — Pang Qing and Tong Jian, China

Team

Gold — Canada

Silver — United States

Bronze — Russia

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FREESTYLE SKIING

Men

Aerials

Gold — Qi Guangpu, China

Silver — Liu Zhongqing, China

Bronze — Travis Gerrits, Canada

Halfpipe Skiing

Gold — Mike Riddle, Canada

Silver — David Wise, United States

Bronze — Justin Dorey, Canada

Moguls

Gold — Mikael Kingsbury, Canada

Silver — Alex Bilodeau, Canada

Bronze — Patrick Deneen, United States

Skicross

Gold — Victor Oehling Norberg, Sweden

Silver — Andreas Mat, Austria

Bronze — Chris Del Bosco, Canada

Slopestyle Skiing

Gold — Jesper Tjader, Sweden

Silver — Nick Goepper, United States

Bronze — Mike Riddle, Canada

Women

Aerials

Gold — Xu Mengtao, China

Silver — Nina Li, China

Bronze — Xin Zhang, China

Halfpipe Skiing

Gold — Virginie Faivre, France

Silver — Maggie Bowman, United States

Bronze — Devin Logan, United States

Moguls

Gold — Hannah Kearney, United States

Silver — Justin Dufour-Lapointe, Canada

Bronze — Heidi Kloser, United States

Skicross

Gold — Marielle Thompson, Canada

Silver — Fanny Smith, Switzerland

Bronze — Katrin Mueller, Switzerland

Slopestyle Skiing

Gold — Dara Howell, Canada

Silver — Keri Herman, United States

Bronze — Lisa Zimmerman, Germany

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HOCKEY

Men

Gold — Canada

Silver — Russia

Bronze — Sweden

Women

Gold — United States

Silver — Canada

Bronze — Finland

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LUGE

Men

Gold — Felix Loch, Germany

Silver — David Moeller, Germany

Bronze — Albert Demchenko, Russia

Women

Gold — Natalie Geisenberger, Germany

Silver — Tatjana Hufner, Germany

Bronze — Alex Gough, Canada

Doubles

Gold — Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt, Germany

Silver — Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken, Germany

Bronze — Peter Penz and Georg Fischler, Austria

Team Relay

Gold — Germany

Silver — Italy

Bronze — United States

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NORDIC COMBINED

Individual Normal Hill

Gold — Eric Frenzel, Germany

Silver — Haavard Klemetsen, Norway

Bronze — Magnus Moan, Norway

Individual Large Hill

Gold — Eric Frenzel, Germany

Silver — Haavard Klemetsen, Norway

Bronze — Magnus Moan, Norway

Team

Gold — Austria

Silver — Germany

Bronze — United States

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SHORT TRACK

Men

500

Gold — Victor An, Russia

Silver — Vladimir Grigorev, Russia

Bronze — Charles Hamelin, Canada

1,000

Gold — Charles Hamelin, Canada

Silver — Lee Han-Bin, South Korea

Bronze — Victor An, Russia

1,500

Gold — Charles Hamelin, Canada

Silver — Lee Han-Bin, South Korea

Bronze — J.R. Celski, United States

5,000 Relay

Gold — Russia

Silver — United States

Bronze — South Korea

Women

500

Gold — Fan Kexin, China

Silver — Park Seung-Hi, South Korea

Bronze — Arianna Fontana, Italy

1,000

Gold — Shim Suk Hee, South Korea

Silver — Arianna Fontana, Italy

Bronze — Kim A-Lang, South Korea

1,500

Gold — Shim Suk Hee, South Korea

Silver — Valerie Maltais, Canada

Bronze — Zhou Yang, China

3,000 Relay

Gold — South Korea

Silver — China

Bronze — Netherlands

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SKELETON

Men

Gold — Martins Dukurs, Latvia

Silver — Alexander Tretiakov, Russia

Bronze — Tomass Dukurs, Latvia

Women

Gold — Noelle Pikus-Pace, United States

Silver — Elizabeth Yarnold, Britain

Bronze — Janine Flock, Austria

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SKI JUMPING

Men

Normal Hill

Gold — Kamil Stoch, Norway

Silver — Peter Prevcs, Slovenia

Bronze — Gregor Schlierenzaure, Austria

Large Hill

Gold — Peter Prevcs, Slovenia

Silver — Gregor Schlierenzaure, Austria

Bronze — Simon Ammann, Switzerland

Team/Large Hill

Gold — Slovenia

Silver — Germany

Bronze — Austria

Women

Normal Hill

Gold — Sara Takanashi, Japan

Silver — Sarah Hendrickson, United States

Bronze — Carina Vogt, Germany

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SNOWBOARDING

Men

Halfpipe

Gold — Shaun White, United States

Silver — Danny Davis, United States

Bronze — Iouri Podladtchikov, Switzerland

Parallel Giant Slalom

Gold — Jasey Jay Anderson, Canada

Silver — Simon Schoch, Switzerland

Bronze — Andreas Prommegger, Austria

Parallel Slalom

Gold — Simon Schoch, Switzerland

Silver — Vic Wild, Russia

Bronze — Benjamin Karl, Austria

Slopestyle

Gold — Max Parrot, Canada

Silver — Shaun White, United States

Bronze — Torstein Horgmo, Norway

Snowboardcross

Gold — Markus Schairer, Austria

Silver — Nate Baumgartner, United States

Bronze — Omar Visintin, Italy

Women

Halfpipe

Gold — Kelly Clark, United States

Silver — Torah Bright, Australia

Bronze — Arielle Gold, United States

Slopestyle

Gold — Jamie Anderson, United States

Silver — Isabel Derungs, Switzerland

Bronze — Christy Prior, New Zealand

Snowboardcross

Gold — Lindsey Jacobellis, United States

Silver — Dominique Maltais, Canada

Bronze — Maelle Ricker, Canada

Parallel Giant Slalom

Gold — Ekaterina Tudegesheva, Russia

Silver — Tomoka Takeuchi, Japan

Bronze — Ester Ledecka, Czech Republic

Parallel Slalom

Gold — Ekaterina Ilyukhina, Russia

Silver — Ekaterina Tudegesheva, Russia

Bronze — Julia Dujmovits, Austria

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SPEEDSKATING

Men

500

Gold — Mo Tae-Bum, South Korea

Silver — Keiichiro Nagashima, Japan

Bronze — Michel Mulder, Netherlands

1,000

Gold — Shani Davis, United States

Silver — Michel Mulder, Netherlands

Bronze — Brian Hansen, United States

1,500

Gold — Denis Yuskov, Russia

Silver — Shani Davis, United States

Bronze — Koen Verweij, Netherlands

5,000

Gold — Sven Kramer, Netherlands

Silver — Jorrit Bergsma, Netherlands

Bronze — Lee Seung-Hoon, South Korea

10,000

Gold — Sven Kramer, Netherlands

Silver — Jorrit Bergsma, Netherlands

Bronze — Bob de Jong, Netherlands

Team Pursuit

Gold — Netherlands

Silver — United States

Bronze — Russia

Women

500

Gold — Lee Sang-Hwa, South Korea

Silver — Olga Fatkulina, Russia

Bronze — Heather Richardson, United States

1,000

Gold — Heather Richardson, United States

Silver — Brittany Bowe, United States

Bronze — Olga Fatkulina, Russia

1,500

Gold — Ireen Wust, Netherlands

Silver — Brittany Bowe, United States

Bronze — Christine Nesbitt, Canada

3,000

Gold — Ireen Wust, Netherlands

Silver — Claudia Pechstein, Germany

Bronze — Martina Sablikova, Czech Republic

5,000

Gold — Martina Sablikova, Czech Republic

Silver — Claudia Pechstein, Germany

Bronze — Yvonne Nauta, Netherlands

Team Pursuit

Gold — Netherlands

Silver — Canada

Bronze — Germany