2010 Winter Olympic Medal Count as of Thursday, Feb. 25



By Tyler Maltbie
Contributor, CSMonitor

(AXcess News) - South Korea's 16-year winning streak in the 3000-meter short track speed skating relay came to a screeching halt last night. The Korean women tasted gold only to have it taken away for nicking skates with China. In a sport defined by careful jostling, the Koreans came a hair's breadth too close to China, breaking the "no blade contact" rule. In the end, China won gold, Canada silver, and the US bronze.

Canadians women competed well elsewhere yesterday, winning both gold and silver in the two-woman bobsled and a bronze in the 5000-meter speed skating final.

In women's aerials, Lydia Lassila of Australia performed a gold medal-winning double twisting triple somersault, besting the aerial powerhouse that is team China. Finally, Sweden raced ahead of Norway in the men's 4x10-kilometer cross-country relay race, intensifying the teams' rivalry that has been stoked the past couple weeks by Sweden's surprisingly strong performance at the Vancouver Games.

Here's the medal list for gold, silver, and bronze in each event as of today. We'll update each morning.

Alpine Skiing
Top American skier Bode Miller crashes during a preliminary round in the men's Giant Slalom; Switzerland’s Carlo Janka takes gold.

Men's Giant Slalom: Carlo Janka (SUI), Kjetil Jansrud (NOR), Aksel Lund Svindal (NOR)

Men's Super Combined: Bode Miller (USA), Ivica Kostelic (CRO), Silvan Zurbriggen (SUI)

Women's Super-G: Andrea Fishbacher (AUT), Tina Maze (SLO), Lindsey Vonn (USA)

Men's Super-G: Aksel Lund Svindal (NOR), Bode Miller (USA), Andrew Weibrecht (USA)

Women's Super-Combined Slalom: Maria Riesch (GER), Julia Mancuso (USA), Anja Parson (SWE)

Women's Downhill: Lindsey Vonn (USA), Julia Mancuso (USA), Elisabeth Goergl (AUT)

Men's Downhill: Didier Defago (SUI), Aksel Lund Svindal (NOR), Bode Miller (USA)

Biathlon
Germany's Magdalena Neuner comes up big in her first Olympic appearance, winning two gold medals and one silver.

Women's 4x6 km Relay: Russia, France, Germany

Women's 12.5 km Mass Start: Magdalena Neuner (GER), Olga Zaitseva (RUS), Simone Hauswald (GER)

Men's 15 km Mass Start: Evgeny Ustyugov (RUS), Martin Fourcade (FRA), Pavol Hurajt (SVK)

Men's 20km Individual: Emil Hegle Scendsen (NOR), Ole Einar Bjorndalen (NOR), Sergey Novikov (BLR)

Men's 12.5 km Pursuit: Bjorn Ferry (SWE), Christoph Sumann (AUT), Vincent Jay (FRA)

Women's 10 km Pursuit: Magdalena Neuner (GER), Anastazia Kuzmina (SVK), Marie Laure Brunet (FRA)

Men's 10 km Sprint: Vincent Jay (FRA), Emil Svendsen (NOR), Emil Svendsen (CRO)

Women's 7.5 km Sprint: Anastazia Kuzmina (SVK), Magdalena Neuner (GER), Marie Dorin (FRA)

Boblsed
Team Canada takes gold and silver in the women's bobsled. The final boblseding event -- the four-man -- takes place Saturday, Feb. 27.

Women's Bobsled: Canada, Canada, USA

Two-man Bobsled: Germany, Germany, Russia

Cross-Country Skiing
Norwegian powerhouse Petter Northug Jr. claimed his first gold medal in the team sprint event after an otherwise disappointing Olympic appearance for the four-time world champion.

Men's 4x10 km Relay: Sweden, Norway, Czech Republic

Men's Team Sprint: Oeystein Pettersen and Petter Northug Jr. (NOR), Tim Tscharnke and Axel Teichmann (GER), Nikolay Morilov and Alexey Petukhov (RUS)

Women's Team Sprint: Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle and Claudia Nystad (GER), Charlotte Kalla and Anna Haag (SWE), Irina Khazova and Natalia Korosteleva (RUS)

Men's 30 km Pursuit: Marcus Hellner (SWE), Tobias Angerer (GER), Johan Olsson (SWE)

Women's 15 km Pursuit: Marit Bjorgen (NOR), Anna Haag (SWE), Justyna Kowalczyk (POL)

Men's Individual Sprint: Nikita Kriukov (RUS), Alexander Panzhinskiy (RUS), Petter Northug Jr. (NOR)

Women's Individual Sprint: Marit Bjorgen (NOR), Justyna Kowalczyk (POL), Petra Majdic (SLO)

Men's 15 km free: Dario Cologna (SUI), Pietro Piller Cottrer (FRA), Lukas Bauer (CZE)

Women’s 10 km free: Charlotte Kalla (SWE), Kristina Smigun-Vaehi (EST), Marit Bjoergen (NOR)

Curling
(first medal event scheduled for Feb. 26)

Figure Skating
Canadian ice dancing duo Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won gold at home to prove for the first time in Olympic history that a team this side of the Atlantic can dance with the best of them.

Ice Dancing: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir (CAN), Meryl Davis and Charlie White (USA), Oksana Domnina and Maksim Shabalin (RUS)

Men's Free Skate, Short Program: Evan Lysacek (USA), Yevgeny Plushenko (RUS), Daisuke Takahashi (JPN)

Pairs, free skate: Xuen Shen / Hongbo Zhao (CHN), Qing Pang / Jian Tong (CHN), Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy (GER)

Freestyle Skiing
Lydia of Lassila of Australia landed a double twisting triple somersault to win gold in the women's aerials final.

Women's Aerials: Lydia Lassila (AUS), Nina Li (CHN), Xinxin Guo (CHN)

Women's Ski Cross: Ashleigh McIvor (CAN), Hedda Berntsen (NOR), Marion Josserand (FRA)

Men's Ski Cross: Michael Schmidt (SUI), Andreas Matt (AUT), Audun Groenvold (NOR)

Men's Moguls: Alexandre Bilodeau (CAN), Dale Begg-Smith (AUS), Bryon Wilson (USA)

Women's Moguls: Hannah Kearney (USA), Jennifer Heil (CAN), Shannon Bahrke (USA)

Ice Hockey
The United States faces Switzerland in the men's quarterfinal on Wednesday while the American and Canadian women will compete in the gold medal match on Thursday.

(first medal event scheduled for Feb. 25)

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