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LINDSEY Vonn and Shani Davis, two of the performers who helped rescue the Vancouver Olympics from a slew of bad publicity, were relegated to bit-part roles on a day of upsets and drama at the Winter Games on Saturday.
Vonn was beaten into third place by Austrian Andrea Fischbacher in the women's super-G while Davis had to settle for silver behind flying Dutchman Mark Tuitert in the men's 1,500-meter speedskating final.
Norwegian world champion Petter Northug finished out of the medals in the men's 30-kilometer cross country pursuit as Sweden's Marcus Hellner snatched the title, and Chinese teenager Zhou Yang burst through the pack to win the women's 1,500 short-track speedskating gold.
Only Swiss ski jumper Simon Ammann and South Korean short-track speedskater Lee Jung-su won gold as expected on the day where the Games reached the halfway stage.
"We are pleased after eight days," IOC Executive Director for the Games Gilbert Felli said. "Of course there are eight days left but there is no reason to believe that those eight days will not continue as normal."
Fischbacher unleashed the finest performance of her life to upstage Vonn and her other big-name rivals and win the first major title of her career.
"I like a tight course and I like a difficult race," said the 24-year-old, a distant cousin of retired double Olympic champion Hermann Maier.
Treacherous course
Vonn could only manage third, adding a bronze to the gold she won in the downhill last Wednesday after defying injury and a treacherous course in one of the real fairytale moments of the opening week.
Slovenia's Tina Maze snatched the silver.
Ammann's victory in the ski jump came after Austrian team officials withdrew a threat to protest against his modified boot bindings which they thought gave him an unfair advantage.
Unfazed by the saga, Ammann became the first man to win four individual ski jump gold medals when he added the large hill title to his two golds from the 2002 Salt Lake City Games and his win in the normal hill earlier in the week.
He won easily after two massive leaps with Poland's Adam Malysz taking the silver and Austria's Gregor Schlierenzauer the bronze in a repeat of the placings of the normal hill.
Davis was an overwhelming favorite to win the speedskating after successfully defending his 1,000 earlier in the week but could not match the powerful effort of Tuitert of the Netherlands. Third place went to Norway's Havard Bokko.
Hellner produced a stunning late burst to win his lung-busting event, charging clear of a tight bunch of four skiers on the final loop. He crossed the line first ahead of Germany's Tobias Angerer and Swede Johan Olsson. Northug faded over the last kilometer to come home in 11th.
Vonn was beaten into third place by Austrian Andrea Fischbacher in the women's super-G while Davis had to settle for silver behind flying Dutchman Mark Tuitert in the men's 1,500-meter speedskating final.
Norwegian world champion Petter Northug finished out of the medals in the men's 30-kilometer cross country pursuit as Sweden's Marcus Hellner snatched the title, and Chinese teenager Zhou Yang burst through the pack to win the women's 1,500 short-track speedskating gold.
Only Swiss ski jumper Simon Ammann and South Korean short-track speedskater Lee Jung-su won gold as expected on the day where the Games reached the halfway stage.
"We are pleased after eight days," IOC Executive Director for the Games Gilbert Felli said. "Of course there are eight days left but there is no reason to believe that those eight days will not continue as normal."
Fischbacher unleashed the finest performance of her life to upstage Vonn and her other big-name rivals and win the first major title of her career.
"I like a tight course and I like a difficult race," said the 24-year-old, a distant cousin of retired double Olympic champion Hermann Maier.
Treacherous course
Vonn could only manage third, adding a bronze to the gold she won in the downhill last Wednesday after defying injury and a treacherous course in one of the real fairytale moments of the opening week.
Slovenia's Tina Maze snatched the silver.
Ammann's victory in the ski jump came after Austrian team officials withdrew a threat to protest against his modified boot bindings which they thought gave him an unfair advantage.
Unfazed by the saga, Ammann became the first man to win four individual ski jump gold medals when he added the large hill title to his two golds from the 2002 Salt Lake City Games and his win in the normal hill earlier in the week.
He won easily after two massive leaps with Poland's Adam Malysz taking the silver and Austria's Gregor Schlierenzauer the bronze in a repeat of the placings of the normal hill.
Davis was an overwhelming favorite to win the speedskating after successfully defending his 1,000 earlier in the week but could not match the powerful effort of Tuitert of the Netherlands. Third place went to Norway's Havard Bokko.
Hellner produced a stunning late burst to win his lung-busting event, charging clear of a tight bunch of four skiers on the final loop. He crossed the line first ahead of Germany's Tobias Angerer and Swede Johan Olsson. Northug faded over the last kilometer to come home in 11th.
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