Apolo Anton Ohno threw up his arms in a what-can-I-do gesture and smiled.
The American short track speedskater had just been disqualified in the 500 meters, but he wasn’t leaving the Vancouver Olympics empty-handed Friday night.
Ohno returned later and anchored the United States to a bronze-medal finish in the chaotic 5,000 relay, giving him his [...]

So these won’t be remembered as the Vonn-couver Olympics after all. It’s looking like they will belong to the entire U.S. delegation instead.
The Americans reached 34 medals with a silver and a bronze in short track speedskating Friday night, and two more were clinched with the men’s hockey team and men’s team pursuit in [...]

South Korea’s Kim Yuna shrugged off the weight of expectation from her homeland to win figure skating gold on Thursday but Canada’s Joannie Rochette won most hearts by overcoming heavy personal grief to claim a bronze medal.
An extraordinary day of raw human emotion and unrelenting drama at the Vancouver Winter Olympics also saw Norwegian cross [...]

Canada defeated United States 2-0 in Thursday’s Vancouver Winter Olympics women’s ice hockey gold medal final, giving the hosts their third consecutive crown. The Americans, reigning world champions, settled for a silver medal while Finland took the bronze with an earlier 3-2 over-time triumph over Sweden.
Marie-Philip Poulin scored twice in [...]

South Korea’s Kim Yu-na has won the women’s figure skating gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics – and did it by setting a record.
Kim shattered her own world mark by scoring 228.56 points, more than 18 higher than her previous record. She is the winner of South Korea’s first Olympic medal in the sport.
Mao Asada [...]

Gold Medal for KIM Yu-Na in figure skating

The Olympic women’s Alpine skiing giant slalom will be decided on Thursday after mountain fog forced Wednesday’s second run to be postponed.
After repeated delays due to poor visibility, and skiers huddled for two hours at a lowered start point in the hope that conditions might improve, officials gave up on attempts to complete the race [...]

Here what the Los Angeles Times writes about this super-star:
Kim Yuna of South Korea leads after the short program of the women’s figure skating event on Tuesday at the Vancouver Olympics. Yuna, who skated to a James Bond medley, scored 78.50 points.
Mao Asada of Japan is in second place with 73.78 points after she skated [...]

Ursula Andress, Jane Seymour, Halle Berry – they’ve got nothing on the newest Bond Girl.
Nobody does it better than Kim Yu-na.
The South Korean skater delighted fans and judges alike with a playfully sexy and sophisticated James Bond medley Tuesday night in the women’s short program, shrugging off the enormous expectations that come with being the [...]

Russia won the women’s relay biathlon gold medal on Tuesday ahead of second-placed France while Germany – minus star performer Magdalena Neuner – finished with bronze.
The Russian team’s winning time was 1hr 9min 36.3sec as France’s Sandrine Bailly produced a brilliant effort on the final leg to beat Germany to the silver as the French [...]