This day of competition will further strengthen the primacy of the US Olympic team, which was in the bank at more than four medals, three of which are silver, and one of the higher test.
Yet this day has pleased fans of Belarus team. Minsker Alexei Grishin became the Olympic champion in freestyle. Silver got Jeter Peterson (Jeret Peterson) from the United States, and bronze - a Chinese Chzhuntsin Liu (Liu Zhongqing).
In the men's Nordic combined once the first two places were taken by American athletes Bill Demong (Bill Demong) and Johnny Spillane (Johnny Spillane).
Third place went to Austrian Bernhard Gruber (Bernhard Gruber). Another bronze was won by the Austrians in the women's giant slalom Gergl Elizabeth (Elisabeth Goergl).
Second place went to Slovene Tina Maze (Tina Maze).
Olympic champion in giant slalom became Rebensburg Victoria (Viktoria Rebensburg) from Germany.
In the women's figure skating, quite unexpectedly took priority athletes from Asia. Olympic gold went to Yu-Na Kim (Kim Yu-Na) from South Korea and Mao Asada silver JPY (Asada Mao).
Bronze deservedly received the Canadian Joan Rochette, which before the start of Olympic competition mother died. According to the figure skater, she literally felt the support of his mother, and that she was very helpful.
The last event, which would like to emphasize - a drawing of medals in the women's hockey tournament. Women's Team Canada in the match for the gold medal was stronger than the Americans 2-0. But that's not the point. The fact that the newly minted Olympic champions "annealed" then ... As they say, no comment ...
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