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February 23, 2010, Tuesday
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IT was indeed "Miller Time" - as the beer slogan goes - for the US Olympic team on Sunday after skier Bode Miller snatched his first Olympic gold medal and ice hockey goalie Ryan Miller stopped Canada in a heartbreaking loss for the hockey-crazed host nation.
Miller the skier, in a remarkable comeback after quitting last year, slalomed from off the pace to grab the men's super combined, adding gold to his haul of a silver and bronze at these Winter Games.
At night, all eyes turned to ice hockey, where the United States beat Canada 5-3 in Olympic men's qualifying Group A on a day packed with three matches between historic rivals.
Miller the goalie, who sported "Miller Time" on his helmet last week before Olympic officials forced him to remove the slogan, recorded 42 saves at the net.
Day nine of competition also brought a third gold for the Netherlands' speedskating team, the second gold for German biathlete Magdalena Neuner and the first bobsleigh gold for experienced German pilot Andre Lange.
Up on Whistler Mountain, the US team, already the leader of the Games' Alpine competitions, sealed its dominance with Miller's stunning come-from-behind win.
Aksel Lund Svindal, who won gold for Norway in the men's super G, had led after the downhill round and Miller trailed a distant seventh. But the 32-year-old, silver medalist behind Svindal in the super G, set the pace with a blistering slalom and Svindal was unable to finish after missing a gate.
The Americans top the medals table with seven golds, ahead of Germany with six and Norway and Switzerland with five apiece.
In speedskating, Ireen Wust of the Netherlands upgraded her 2006 Olympic bronze in the 1,500 meters to gold in Vancouver. The 23-year-old had become her country's youngest Olympic gold medalist ever in 2006 with her win in the 3,000 in Turin.
Germany's Neuner won her second gold medal of the Games with a storming finish in the women's biathlon 12.5-kilometer mass start. Switzerland's Michael Schmid took the gold medal in the crash-filled debut of men's ski cross.
In the two-man bobsleigh, the peerless Lange proved his total domination of the sport, hardly scraping a wall during four smooth drives on a course that has produced several high-speed crashes on Saturday. Lange has now won the last four Olympic bobsleigh golds, two-man and four, dating back to Salt Lake City in 2002.
The hockey grudge matches started with Russia winning its faceoff against the Czech Republic 4-2 in a rematch of the 1998 Nagano Olympic final.
They turned the ice over to neighbors Canada and the US, who played for gold in 2002 at Salt Lake City. Brian Rafalski put the US ahead in the first minute of the game and scored again in the opening period. It is not the end for Team Canada, but it is now forced to play and win another match to progress to the next round, while the US advances with a 3-0 record at the top of Group A.
Nordic rivals Sweden and Finland closed out the day's action in a rematch of the 2006 Turin final, the Swedes easing to a 3-0 win.
Miller the skier, in a remarkable comeback after quitting last year, slalomed from off the pace to grab the men's super combined, adding gold to his haul of a silver and bronze at these Winter Games.
At night, all eyes turned to ice hockey, where the United States beat Canada 5-3 in Olympic men's qualifying Group A on a day packed with three matches between historic rivals.
Miller the goalie, who sported "Miller Time" on his helmet last week before Olympic officials forced him to remove the slogan, recorded 42 saves at the net.
Day nine of competition also brought a third gold for the Netherlands' speedskating team, the second gold for German biathlete Magdalena Neuner and the first bobsleigh gold for experienced German pilot Andre Lange.
Up on Whistler Mountain, the US team, already the leader of the Games' Alpine competitions, sealed its dominance with Miller's stunning come-from-behind win.
Aksel Lund Svindal, who won gold for Norway in the men's super G, had led after the downhill round and Miller trailed a distant seventh. But the 32-year-old, silver medalist behind Svindal in the super G, set the pace with a blistering slalom and Svindal was unable to finish after missing a gate.
The Americans top the medals table with seven golds, ahead of Germany with six and Norway and Switzerland with five apiece.
In speedskating, Ireen Wust of the Netherlands upgraded her 2006 Olympic bronze in the 1,500 meters to gold in Vancouver. The 23-year-old had become her country's youngest Olympic gold medalist ever in 2006 with her win in the 3,000 in Turin.
Germany's Neuner won her second gold medal of the Games with a storming finish in the women's biathlon 12.5-kilometer mass start. Switzerland's Michael Schmid took the gold medal in the crash-filled debut of men's ski cross.
In the two-man bobsleigh, the peerless Lange proved his total domination of the sport, hardly scraping a wall during four smooth drives on a course that has produced several high-speed crashes on Saturday. Lange has now won the last four Olympic bobsleigh golds, two-man and four, dating back to Salt Lake City in 2002.
The hockey grudge matches started with Russia winning its faceoff against the Czech Republic 4-2 in a rematch of the 1998 Nagano Olympic final.
They turned the ice over to neighbors Canada and the US, who played for gold in 2002 at Salt Lake City. Brian Rafalski put the US ahead in the first minute of the game and scored again in the opening period. It is not the end for Team Canada, but it is now forced to play and win another match to progress to the next round, while the US advances with a 3-0 record at the top of Group A.
Nordic rivals Sweden and Finland closed out the day's action in a rematch of the 2006 Turin final, the Swedes easing to a 3-0 win.
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