OLYMPICS ROUNDUP | Saturday's other events

Speedskating
Jin Sun-yu and Choi Eun-kyung finished 1-2 in the women's 1,500-meter short track speedskating final, and South Korea missed out on a podium sweep when Byun Chun-sa was disqualified for impeding. China's Wang Meng was awarded the bronze following Byun's disqualification.
Men's hockey
Switzerland stunned defending Olympic champion Canada with a 2-0 victory. Paul DiPietro scored twice and goalie Martin Gerber turned aside 49 shots for the Swiss, who beat the near equivalent of an NHL all-star team with only two NHL players in their lineup. Jaromir Jagr was assisted off the ice with a bloody cut forehead, and the Czech Republic (1-2) suffered a 4-2 loss that kept Finland (3-0) as one of two unbeatens. Evgeni Nabokov made 24 saves in his second straight shutout and Alexander Kharitonov snapped a scoreless tie midway through the second period in Russia's 1-0 victory over Kazakhstan (0-3). Peter Forsberg set up two goals in his first game of the tournament, helping the Swedes (2-1) beat Latvia (0-2-1), 6-1. Christian Borgatello scored a short-handed goal with 1:32 left that put Italy (0-2-1) on the brink of victory, but Marcel Goc answered 15 seconds later for Germany (0-2-1), forcing a 3-3 tie that probably means neither team will advance out of group play.
Alpine skiing
Janica Kostelic won an Olympic medal again, and of course it was gold. The 24-year-old Croatian became the first woman to win four Olympic Alpine gold medals when she fought off illness to successfully defend her championship in the combined event. Kostelic's total time between the downhill and two slalom runs Friday night was 2:51.08, beating Austrian Marlies Schild by a half-second and leaving rival Anja Paerson of Sweden in third.
Nordic skiing
Austria's Thomas Morgenstern had the longest jump of the day, edging compatriot Andreas Kofler to win the gold medal in large hill ski jumping. Morgenstern soared 140 meters on his second jump on the large hill to come from behind and beat first-round leader Kofler by one tenth of a point. Normal hill gold medalist Lars Bystoel of Norway took the bronze with 250.7 points after jumps of 127.5 and 131.5 meters.
Cross-country skiing
Evgenia Medvedeva-Abruzova made up a 12 1/2-second deficit on the leading Germans with her final leg to lift Russia to the Olympic gold in the women's 4x5km cross-country relay. After taking over the lead, Medvedeva-Abruzova skated all alone through the final stretch to finish in a time of 54 minutes, 47.7 seconds. Claudia Kuenzel of defending champion Germany dropped out of the top three after giving up the lead, but fought back to cross second for the silver, 10 seconds behind Russia. Italy came in 1 second after Germany to take the bronze.
Bobsled
Americans Todd Hays and Pavle Jovanovic were in sixth place following the first two runs of the two-man bobsled competition. Hays piloted USA-1 down the tricky 19-turn track in 1 minute, 51.53 seconds, .52 seconds behind Germany's Andre Lange.
Biathlon
Norway's Ole Einar Bjoerndalen was denied gold again when France's Vincent Defrasne sped past him on the final straightaway to win the men's 12.5km biathlon pursuit. Bjoerndalen won silver and Sven Fischer of Germany, who started in the lead, won the bronze, 15.6 seconds back.
In the women's 10km biathlon pursuit, the worst of conditions brought out the best in Germany's Kati Wilhelm, who convincingly won the Olympic gold medal, 1 minute, 13.6 seconds ahead of teammate Martina Glagow. Russia's Albina Akhatova took the bronze.
Men's curling
Pete Fenson's U.S. curling team beat Germany, 8-5, boosting its chances of advancing to the medal round. At 5-2, the Americans are in good position to qualify for a tiebreaker at the end of the nine-game round-robin. Italy, which had never before fielded an Olympic curling team, shocked Canada 7-6, Britain beat Switzerland 6-5 and Finland beat Norway 7-3.
Women's curling
The U.S. waited until it was virtually out of the running to have its best game of the Olympics, beating Italy 11-3 in just six ends. In other games, first-place Sweden defeated Japan 8-7 and Denmark 10-5, Norway beat Britain 8-4, Switzerland beat Russia 7-4, Japan beat Canada 5-2 and Britain beat Italy 9-5.
Associated Press