ROUNDUP Saturday's events



Hockey
The Czech Republic shut out Russia in a match-up worthy of a gold medal. Too bad they were only playing for the bronze. Tomas Vokoun, filling in for Dominik Hasek, made 12 of his 28 saves in the third period and the Czech Republic skated off with a 3-0 victory over Russia. Russia had its offense bolstered by the return of teenager Evgeni Malkin, but lost Ilya Kovalchuk -- its second-leading scorer -- after he was ejected for an elbow to the face of Pavel Kubina behind the Czech net in the second period. Marek Zidlicky made Russia pay when he ripped a shot in from the blue line off a pass from NHL-leading scorer Jaromir Jagr at 6:36. Martin Straka sealed it with eight seconds left with an empty-net goal on the Czech's 15th and final shot.
Short-track speedskating
South Korea's Jin Sun-Yu won the women's 1,000-meters, earning her second gold of the Winter Games. China's Wang Meng, the 500 Olympic champion, earned the silver. Yang Yang of China took the bronze. Jin's teammate, Choi Eun-Kyung, was disqualified for impeding in the four-woman final.
Speedskating
Canada's Clara Hughes passed Claudia Pechstein with two laps to go to win the gold medal in women's 5,000 meters, keeping the German from becoming the first Winter Olympian to win the same event four times. Hughes' teammate Cindy Klassen took the bronze for her fifth medal of the games. Hughes, who won two bronze medals in cycling at the 1996 Atlanta Games, trailed Pechstein for 10 of the 12 1/2 laps before coming back with a devastating kick to finish in 6 minutes, 59.07 seconds. Pechstein was 1.01 seconds back, while Klassen skated poorly over the final two laps and finished with a time of 7:00.57. She still became Canada's most-decorated Winter Olympic athlete. Catherine Raney, the only American in the race, finished seventh with a time of 7:04.91.
Bobsled
Andre Lange slipped into history. Behind him, Todd Hays simply slipped away. Germany's Lange won his second gold medal of the Turin Games, stacking a four-man bobsled title atop the one he won in two-man to complete a seldom-seen Olympic medal sweep. Lange and teammates Rene Hoppe, Kevin Kuske and Martin Putze finished in 3 minutes, 40.42 seconds. Lange defeated Russian's Alexander Zoubkov (3:40.55) and Switzerland's Martin Annen (3:40.83), who won his second bronze after finishing third in two-man.
Biathlon
*Germany's Michael Greis completed the shutout of Ole Einar Bjoerndalen by winning his third gold medal of the Turin Games with a win in the 15km mass start. Bjoerndalen led for most of the race but settled for the bronze, 12.3 seconds behind Greis, who crossed the finish 6.3 seconds ahead of silver medalist Tomasz Sikora of Poland.
*Anna Carin Olofsson of Sweden took advantage of a weeklong rest and a mid-race cushion to win gold in the women's 12.5km mass start. Olofsson, in her first Olympics as a biathlete after competing in cross-country skiing at Salt Lake City, finished 18.8 seconds ahead of Kati Wilhelm and 41.9 in front of Uschi Disl, both of Germany.
Associated Press