Vancouver Games: Day 8

Vancouver Games: Day 8

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Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway won the super-G title, denying Ameican Bode Miller his first Olympic gold medal. Svindal won in one minute 30.34 seconds on a tough, icy track that gave many racers problems staying within the painted blue lines guiding the course. Miller was second, trailing by 0.28 seconds, and Andrew Weibrecht of the United States was 0.31 behind Svindal in third.

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Bode Miller (left) picked up his second medal of the Olympics by earning a silver in the super-G.

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Andrew Weibrecht, of Lake Placid, N.Y., never before fared better than 10th in a significant race, but wound up only 0.03 of a second slower than Bode Miller and took bronze in the super-G.

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Henrik Zetterberg (8) and his teammates jumped to a 3-0 lead over Belarus and held on for a 4-2 victory as backup goalie Jonas Gustavsson made 17 saves.

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Gold medalists at the 2006 Olympics, Sweden plays archrival Finland in it's next group game.

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Amy Williams won the women's skeleton to give Britain an individual gold medalist at the Winter Games for the first time since figure skater Robin Cousins at Lake Placid in 1980.

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Norway has the second-most golds with five, boosted by victories in two events. Aksel Lund Svindal won the super-G and Marit Bjoergen (No. 6) won the women's 15-kilometer pursuit. Bjoergen also became the first winner of multiple gold medals in Vancouver and the first with three medals.

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Jon Montgomery, the redhead with the scruffy beard and penchant for speed, won the Olympic gold medal in men's skeleton, snatching it away from Latvia's Martins Dukurs, who had been nearly flawless during three heats but made a critical mistake within feet of the finish.

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It takes two to tango, and the best at the Olympics were world champions Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin. The couple won the compulsory dance, an exercise -- some say it's monotonous -- to repetitive music that began the ice dancing competition.

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The U.S. men's and women's curling teams responded to the arrival of their honorary captain -- San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis -- by winning for the first time. Vice skip Jason Smith threw the the last rock in USA's 4-3 victory over France.

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The women were 0-3 until skip Debbie McCormick bumped out a Russian stone with her last rock, giving the U.S. a 6-4 victory.