介绍:
In mens hockey quarterfinal action,
Russians watched in silent shock as their team crashed out of the running for a medal with a 3-1 loss to Finland.
The bitterly disappointed Russian fans had to slink out of the stadium as the smaller group of Finnish fans chanted "Olympic gold, Olympic gold".
"This is a tough situation. Always the home team has a lot of pressure and I just said that once it is the 3rd period we are going to hear when 11-thousand people are totally silent. And we got it."
Finland moves on to face Sweden, who crushed Slovenia 5-0 yesterday. The score doesn't communicate it, but Slovenia actually put up a good fight in the first part of the game, holding Sweden scoreless until the end of the first period.
And when one considers that Slovenia is making their Olympic quarterfinal debut against a two-time Olympic champion team, has just seven ice rinks throughout the country, and only 150 registered players to select from.. one can say not bad Slovenia.
The other semifinal matchup will be between Canada, who survived an upset with a 2-1 win over Latvia, and the USA, who beat the Czech Republic 5-2.
Ladies individual figure skating is in full swing.
South Korea's Kim Yuna took the lead after scoring a 74.92 in the short program, and Russia's Adelina Sotnikova is right behind in second place with 74.64 points.
A 15 year old skater from Russia, Julia Lipnitskaia, is sitting in third, and she's definitely one to watch. She and Kim are among the few women in the competition who can consistently throw a triple lutz-triple toeloop, a very tricky combination.
Chinese skaters Li Zijun and Zhang Kexin both qualified for today's free skating after placing 11th and 14th in the short program.
In speedskating, Czech skater Martina Sablikova defended her Vancouver title in the womens 5000 meter event.
In womens curling, Canada and Sweden will face each other in today's final. The Canadians advanced after defeating the Brits 6-4 yesterday, and are considered the favorites to win after a flawless 9-0 record in the round-robin stage.
Up at the slopes,
USA's world champion alpine racer Ted Ligety backed up the expectations and won the men's giant slalom yesterday. He held a pretty significant one second lead after the first run.
"It's not actually necessarily the easiest mental position to be in because you'd look pretty silly if you mess it up and don't win or if you come down going too easy and getting second place. Ninety percent of the course I was going as hard as I possibly could and there were a couple to turns here and there where I knew I should give up some time just to be on the safe side. So it gives you that little bit of a buffer, but it's still not the kind of thing you can cruise all the way down and just expect to win.”
Over at the park, Russia's Vic Wild won the men's snowboard parallel giant slalom.
"Incredible, man... Right now it's really hard for me to put stuff into words. It's just like... before like, I guess, but it's just an incredible day and I've put so much into my sport, ever since I was about seven years old, so to finally have it pay off... it's just incredible. I'm so happy that Russia gave me the opportunity to continue snowboarding."
Wild was born in America, but represents his adopted country Russia at the games. His wife Alena Zavarzina is also an Olympic snowboarder for Russia, and took bronze earlier in the womens event.
Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse of Canada defended their womens bobsled title.
Norway's Ole Einar Bjoerndalen helped his country win the biathlon mixed relay title and became the most-medaled winter Olympian in history with 13 medals.
The 40 year old athlete also had the honor of breaking the record in front of his monarch, King Harald V.
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