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February 24, 2010, Wednesday
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WITH the best ski jumper in the world on the sidelines, the Austrian team soared to the Olympic gold medal on Monday at the Vancouver Games.
The Austrian team of Gregor Schlierenzauer, Thomas Morgenstern, Andreas Kofler and Wolfgang Loitzl defended their title from the 2006 Turin Games by earning 1,107.9 points to easily beat second-place Germany. Norway took bronze.
"We know we have the strongest team," Loitzl said. "So we knew what to do."
Simon Ammann, the Swiss ski jumper who won gold in both the normal hill and large hill individual jumps, didn't compete in the team event because Switzerland didn't have four jumpers.
Norway won the men's team sprint in cross-country skiing, with Petter Northug racing past Axel Teichmann of Germany shortly before the finish. Northug and Oeystein Pettersen won in 19 minutes, 1 second, while Germany was second and Russia third.
"It's like a dream for me to be an Olympic champion," said Northug, who had won only a bronze medal in Vancouver before Monday. "Today was the day."
In the women's team sprint, Claudia Nystad pulled away from Sweden's Anna Haag to give Germany the gold. The German team of Nystad and Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle won in 18:03.7. Haag and Charlotte Kalla took silver, and Russia was third.
"We did everything right and at the right time," Nystad said.
A day after the United States beat Canada in men's hockey - forcing the hosts to play an extra game to reach the quarterfinals - the women's hockey tournament resumed.
The Americans easily beat Sweden 9-1 to reach Thursday's gold-medal game, where they will face Canada, which beat Finland 5-0.
The host nation received more good news later on Monday in ice dancing when Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won the gold medal. The gold was Canada's fifth here and came on the same day that Canadian Olympic Committee chief executive conceded that it won't achieve its bold ambition of finishing atop the medals table.
Germany and the United States each have seven gold medals, but the Americans have four more overall with 25. Canada has 10 overall, with half of them gold.
Shortened game
In curling, Norway reached the semifinals of the men's tournament after routing France 9-2 in a shortened eight-end game.
The Norwegians have been known for their diamond-patterned trousers at the Vancouver Games, and Thomas Ulsrud said he read a report that King Harald V of Norway would be coming to Canada to watch his team play at the Olympics.
The report went on to say the king would be delighted to accept a pair of the team's slacks - a blinding arrangement of red, white, blue and gray diamonds - because "they're the coolest pants I've ever seen."
In other matches, Kevin Martin kept the favored Canadians unbeaten through eight games with a 7-2 victory over the United States after facing an early deficit, Germany held off China 7-6 and Switzerland defeated Sweden 7-3 in nine ends after scoring three in the ninth.
The Canadian women rebounded from their first loss with a surprising 6-2 win over defending gold medalist Sweden.
The Austrian team of Gregor Schlierenzauer, Thomas Morgenstern, Andreas Kofler and Wolfgang Loitzl defended their title from the 2006 Turin Games by earning 1,107.9 points to easily beat second-place Germany. Norway took bronze.
"We know we have the strongest team," Loitzl said. "So we knew what to do."
Simon Ammann, the Swiss ski jumper who won gold in both the normal hill and large hill individual jumps, didn't compete in the team event because Switzerland didn't have four jumpers.
Norway won the men's team sprint in cross-country skiing, with Petter Northug racing past Axel Teichmann of Germany shortly before the finish. Northug and Oeystein Pettersen won in 19 minutes, 1 second, while Germany was second and Russia third.
"It's like a dream for me to be an Olympic champion," said Northug, who had won only a bronze medal in Vancouver before Monday. "Today was the day."
In the women's team sprint, Claudia Nystad pulled away from Sweden's Anna Haag to give Germany the gold. The German team of Nystad and Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle won in 18:03.7. Haag and Charlotte Kalla took silver, and Russia was third.
"We did everything right and at the right time," Nystad said.
A day after the United States beat Canada in men's hockey - forcing the hosts to play an extra game to reach the quarterfinals - the women's hockey tournament resumed.
The Americans easily beat Sweden 9-1 to reach Thursday's gold-medal game, where they will face Canada, which beat Finland 5-0.
The host nation received more good news later on Monday in ice dancing when Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won the gold medal. The gold was Canada's fifth here and came on the same day that Canadian Olympic Committee chief executive conceded that it won't achieve its bold ambition of finishing atop the medals table.
Germany and the United States each have seven gold medals, but the Americans have four more overall with 25. Canada has 10 overall, with half of them gold.
Shortened game
In curling, Norway reached the semifinals of the men's tournament after routing France 9-2 in a shortened eight-end game.
The Norwegians have been known for their diamond-patterned trousers at the Vancouver Games, and Thomas Ulsrud said he read a report that King Harald V of Norway would be coming to Canada to watch his team play at the Olympics.
The report went on to say the king would be delighted to accept a pair of the team's slacks - a blinding arrangement of red, white, blue and gray diamonds - because "they're the coolest pants I've ever seen."
In other matches, Kevin Martin kept the favored Canadians unbeaten through eight games with a 7-2 victory over the United States after facing an early deficit, Germany held off China 7-6 and Switzerland defeated Sweden 7-3 in nine ends after scoring three in the ninth.
The Canadian women rebounded from their first loss with a surprising 6-2 win over defending gold medalist Sweden.
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