The World Competes » skeleton http://www.worldcompetes.com/blog Olympic News and Information Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:33:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Vancouver Day 8 http://www.worldcompetes.com/blog/2010/02/vancouver-day-8/ http://www.worldcompetes.com/blog/2010/02/vancouver-day-8/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:03:00 +0000 Lorren http://www.worldcompetes.com/blog/?p=226 Today, the men’s Super G was exciting to watch. The US’s Andrew Weibrecht took the lead with several strong competitors to go. One by one, they failed to live up to his performance, until Bode Miller came down the hill and beat him by only hundredths of a point. Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway came along and beat them both. Swiss skier Didier Cuche, who had been skiing well all season, failed to reach the podium. So the results were Svindal, Miller, and Weibrecht for gold, silver, and bronze.

In cross-country, the women had their 15 km pursuit. Marit Bjørgen once again wins gold for Norway, while Sweden’s Anna Haag, who came in fourth in the 10 km individual race, ended up with the silver medal.

The ice dancers had their compulsive dance program. Unlike pairs and singles skating, ice dancing has three nights of competition. The Russian team of Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin are first after the first day, but don’t count out Charlie White and Meryl Davis, or Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto, just yet. They came in third and fourth, with two evenings of competition to go. The third US team came in 14th.

Skeleton finished its final day of competition. Jon Montgomery of Canada took the gold for the men, and Great Britain’s Amy Williams won the ladies’ event. Noelle Pikus-Pace of the United States came in fourth, only one tenth of a second away from the bronze.

The ski jumping quals for the large hill occurred today. Nicholas Alexander and Peter Frenette of the United States made it to tomorrow’s event.

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