The Sun /Sunday, February 16, 2014 www.sunnewspapers.net SP Page 5


 TODAY'S BEST BETS
 S | MEN'S SUPER-G ICE DANCING WOMEN'S SNOWBOARD CROSS
 Bode Miller would like to repeat his silver The U.S. will certainly medal in this discipline and Lindsey Jacobellis became an instant legend Steve I
 performance in Vancouver. Aksel Lund Svindal that medal probably will be gold. Meryl Davis and in 2006 in Turin when she was far ahead and world,
 of Norway is the defending Olympic champion Charlie White have five straight wins, including hotdogged a move on the final jump, crashed four-n
 and likely to be near the top again. Ted Ligety last week in the team competition. Their toughest and finished second. She couldn't avenge it in couple
 skied too conservatively in the combined so competition is Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Vancouver, where she was disqualified. This is a Russia
 SOCHI 2014 you can expect him to be more aggressive. Canada, the reigning Olympic champions, final chance for her to make the victory stand, the

 C)CO^ U *MEN'S SPEEDSKATING:


 DAILY
 U PDATE"E

Medals table
 (51 of 98 total events)
Nation G S B Tot
Russia 4 6 5 15
Netherlands 4 4 6 14
United States 4 3 7 14
Norway 4 3 6 13
Germany 7 3 2 12
Canada 4 5 3 12
Sweden 1 5 2 8
Switzerland 5 1 1 7
Austria 2 4 1 7
China 3 2 0 5

Today's schedule
 ALPINE SKIING
Men's Super G, 2 a.m.
 BIATHLON
Men's 15km Mass start, 10 a.m.
 BOBSLEIGH
Men'sTwo -Man (Run 1), 11 :15 a.m.
Men'sTwo-Man (Run 2),1250 p.m.
 CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING
Men's 4x1 0km Relay (Classic/Free), 5 a.m.
 CURLING
 Men
United States vs. Canada, Mid.
Britain vs. Norway, Mid.
Sweden vs. Russia, Mid. .
 Women
Denmarkvs. South Korea,5 a.m.
Japan vs Switzerland,5 a.m. AP PHOTO
Sweden vs. Russia, 5 a.m.
United States vs Canada, am Shani Davis of the U.S. looks at the scoreboard after racing in the men's 1,500-meters at Adler Arena Skating Center on Saturday in
 Men
Norway vs. Switzerland, 10 a.m. Sochi, Russia. Davis finished 11th.
China vs. Canada, 10 a.m.
Germanyvs. Denmark, 10 a.m.
United StatesIvs.1Sweden,l10tam.
 FIGURE SKATING
Ige Dancing short dance, 10 a.m.
 Ice Hockey

 Gru ARssavsSovka,70a .S w tches Suitlu
Group B: Austria vs N ra y, 3 a.m. b
Group A: Russia vs. Sova kia, 7:30 a.m.
Group A Slovenia vs United States, 7:30
am.



 SNOWBOARD
Women's Snowboard Cross Seeding, 2 a.m.
Women's Snowboard Cross Quarterfinals, By MICHELLE KAUFMAN Turns out, the ward- the board; the U.S. is un- going on around me out
4:15 a.m. MIAMI HERALD robe change made no derperforming compared of my control that could
Women's Snowboard Cross Semifinals, 4:30
a.m. SOCHI, Russia --The difference. to where we could be," possibly have affected the
Women's Snowboard Cross Finals,4:45a.m. s In fact, the dAmericans Hansen said. "Statistically, things I did have in my
 S SPEEDSKATING U.S. speedskating teamfct, t e t wer e cu be p by h the
Women's 1500,9 a .m. soul-searching and did worse Saturday than that's a fact." control.the energy was
 desperate to recover from they had in previous Zbigniew Brodka of really bad. I really try hard
Today on TV what has been a disas- days. Shani Davis, who Poland took gold in to not make excuses, but I
 NBC trous Olympics, ditched owns the world record in 1:45.006, KoenVerweij think if we could eliminate
3-6 p.m. Men's CrossCountry 415km its much-hyped high-tech the event and won the of the Netherlands silver all those distractions and
Relay Gold Medal Final; Women's Snow- suits and reverted to past two Olympic silver in 1:45.009 and Denny I could have just put that
boarding- Snowboard Cross Competition Dinn Ju st pu t
7-11 p.m. Figure Skating Ice Dancing familiar proven attire for medals, finished Ith. His Morrison of Canada energy into performing and
Short Dance;,Men's Alpine Skiing- Super-G Saturday's 1,500 meters. teammate Brian Hansen bronze in 1:45.22. skating, it would have been
Gold Medal Final; Women's Snowboarding
- Snowboard Cross Gold Medal Final;Wom- World-class athletes are was four spots ahead in Neither Davis nor a totally different outcome.
en's Speedskating- 1500 Gold Medal Final; creatures of habit, and seventh place. Hansen blamed the suit di- U.S. coach Kip







Tswo-Man Bose Competitio
Two-Man Bobsled -Competition this was one variable they For the seventh time this rectly for the U.S. woes, but Carpenter dispelled the
11:35 pm.-12:35 a.m. Men's Biath te y C d
Ion 15km Mass Start Gold Medal Final; could control, they figured. Olympics, U.S. skaters left both suggested the fuss and suggestion that the suits
Figure Skating-SIce Dancing Short Dance So, they voted during Adler Arena without any controversy surrounding were to blame for the
Postgame
12:35-4:30 a.m. Primetime Encore a Friday night meeting medals. They are 0 for 21 in the suit was a distraction. team's poor performances.
 NBCSN to discard the suits that possible medals and have Instead of relaxing and 'A skater does not lose
3-5 a.m. Men's Curling- United Statesth
avs.Canada were years in the making no top-six finishes. They focusing on their upcoming a second (in the 1,000)
5-7:15 a.m. Men's Cross-Country and specially designed by won 19 medals in the past race Friday night, they were because of a skinsuit," he
4xlOkm Relay Gold Medal Final (LIVE) Under Armour and engi- three Olympics, were ex- debating about what to said after training Friday.
7:15-10a.m.- Men's Hockey- Slovenia vs.
United States (LIVE) neers at Lockheed Martin pected to win at least a half wear. By the time the de- 'Anyone who thinks that
10 a.m.-2 p.m. Figure Skating Ice Aeronautics. Skaters had dozen medals here, and are cision was made to dump does not know speed
Dancing Short Dance (LIVE)
2-3 p.m. Men's Biathlon 15km Mass begun to second-guess in danger of being shut out the suits, the damage was skating. In my opinion,
Start Gold Medal Final the suits, which had never for the first time since the done, Davis said. the Dutch are just sitting
3- p.m. Hockey Encoreb e 9 "h dt io t n hd
5-7 p.m.-Game of the Day Hockey been tested in race condi- 1984 Sarajevo Games. "The distractions took deeper and pushinghard-
 MSNBC tions before this Olympics "There is absolutely a toll on me," Davis said. er. They are just skating
5-8 a.m. Women's Curling United began. something wrong across "There werealotofthings better than us."
States vs. Canada (LIVE)
 CNBC
4-7 p.m. Men's Curling -United States
vs. Sweden UBOBSLED:
 USA
3-5:30 a.m. Men's Hockey Austria vs.
Norway (LIVE)A-h t
7:30-10 a.m. Men's Hockey Russia vs.
Slovakia (LIVE) Americans try again to snap drought
Noon-2:30 p.m. Men's Hockey- Finland
vs. Canada (LIVE)
 By TIM REYNOLDS
Sat urday's ASSOCIATED PRESS Don't miss
medalists KRASNAYA POLYANA, Dallas Robinson will compete in
 ALPINE SKIING Russia on Another the two man bobsled competition,
 Women Olympics, another chance t- which starts today, with driver Nick
GOLD--Anna Fenninger, Austria tO end the drought for the Cunningham.
SILVER--Maria Hoefi-Riesch, Germany U bobsled pro gram that Robinson is the son of
BRONZE--Nicole Hosp, Austria US rga
 has lasted 62 years. an Mike Robinson, who resides in
 CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING And the one the team Englewood. The yugrRobinson
 Womenyone
 4xSkm Relay really wants to address spent part of the summer in 2012
GOLD--Sweden (Ida Ingemarsdotter, goes back 78 years. 1 working out in Englewood.
Emma Wiken, Anna Haag, Charlotte Kalla) h attm nH sas ceue ob
SILVER--Finland (Anne Kylloenen, Telstiea... Hisloscdudtoea
AinoKaisa Saarinen, Kerttu Niskanen Kris American two-man part of the fourman competition,
ta Lahteenmaki( bobsled won an Olympwhich is being held next weekend.
BRONZE--Germany (Nicole Fessel, Ste-Oymi
fanie Boehler, Claudia Nystad, Denise Her- medal was 1952, and the AP PHOTO Today's first two runs are
rmann) last time one claimed the scheduled to be televised on
 SHORTTRACK SPEEDSKATING gold was 1936. Both of The U.S. two-man team, piloted by Steven Holcomb, speeds down tape delay during NBC'S prime
 Men those numbers have been the track during Olympic training in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. time broadcast, which starts at 1
 GODVitr0n0Rsi very much on the mind Vancouver Games four with something that's a p.m. Monday's final two runs are
SILVER--Vladimir Grigorev, Russia of the U.S. contingent years ago --ending, little bit better that usually scheduled to air on tape delay
BRONZE--Sjinkie Knegt, Netherlands for many years and will you guessed it, a 62-year costs a heck of a lot for during NBC's late-night broadcast
 1500r~ surely be again today span between American just small increments of (1 a~m.)
G.OLD -Zhou Yan~g,..hina :... when Steven Holcomb, victories in bobsled's time, usually less than a


SILVER-Shim Suk Hee, South Korea :I
BRONZE-Arianna Fontana, Italy0 Cory Butner and Nick signature race. Improved tenth of a second," said finished fourth in the
 SKELETON Cunningham drive their four-man sled technology U.S. men's bobsled coach World Cup standings, and
 Men :sesit h is w a
 GOLD-AlexanderTreov, Russia sleds into the first two was a huge part of that Brian Shimer, a former Cunningham won a silver
GOLD--Alexa nder Tretia kov, Russia
SILVER-Martins Dukurs, Latvia runs of the two-man event golden ride, and the U.S. Olympic driver, and two bronzes on tour
BRONZE-Matt Antoine, Prairie du Chien, at the Sochi Games. is hoping the same holds The results this year winter ust about ever
Wis. ris winter. just about every
 SKI JUMPING "I'd say it's time," true at the Sochi Games. would suggest the weekend the BM sleds
 SKI JMPINGweekend, the BMW sleds
 Men Holcomb said. A fleet of new sleds Americans finally have a
 K1r20te which the Americans
GOLD Kamil t i ld Fortunately for the designed by BMW are real chance of getting the
GOLD-Kamil Stoch, Poland *',i .i ii i are still learning certain
SILVER-Noriaki Kasai,Japan medal-starved U.S. crew, what American two-man Olympic breakthrough are still learning certain
BRONZE-Peter Prevc, Slovenia drought-snapping is one pilots drive now, with they've wanted for nuances about, given that
 SPEEDSKATING
 Men of Holcomb's specialties, much early success, generations, they've had them for a
 1500 He was at the controls "You see the evolution Holcomb won five relatively short period of
GOLD-Zbigniew Brodka, Poland
SILVER-KoenVerweij,Netherlands of USA-I when it won of the technology and of the eight two-man time -were near, or at, the
BRONZE-Denny Morrison, Canada four-man gold at the every year you come up races this season. Butner top of the two-man heap.


 TWO-MAN BOBSLED
Holcomb of the U.S. is ranked No.1 in the
but his chances for gold are better in the
ian. The Germans are expected to have a
of strong sleds. And Alexander Zubkov of
is a clear contender. Zubkov had carried
Russian flag in the opening ceremony.


 SATURDAY'S
 HEADLINES

 Skicross racer's surgery
 successful after spine frac-
 ture: Olympic skicross racer Maria
 Komissarova of Russia underwent a
 626-hour operation on her fractured
 spine following a training accident.
 Russian freestyle ski federation
 spokesman Mikhail Verzeba said
 Komissarova fractured the 12th dorsal
 vertebrae in her lower-middle back and
 was taken to a hospital near the Rosa
 Khutor Extreme Park for emergency
 surgery.
 "The operation is over ... it's been
 successful,"Verzeba said.
 The Russian presidential website
 said Vladimir Putin visited Komissarova
 in the hospital.
 Medical staff briefed Putin on the
 surgery and further treatment and
 the president"wished her a speedy
 recovery/said the statement, which
 gave no update on Komissarova's
 condition.
 The 23-year-old was practicing for
 Friday's contest on a sunny morning on
 the 1,200-meter course, which has nine
 banked turns and 25 jumps.
 She was taken by sled to the medical
 services tent, and from there to the
 hospital. Team doctors decided to do
 the surgery immediately instead of
 transporting Komissarova down to Sochi.

 Austrian alpine dominance:
 Anna Fenninger became the third
 straight Austrian woman to win a gold
 medal in the Olympic super-G. Maria
 Hoefl-Riesch of Germany won the silver
 and Nicole Hosp of Austria the bronze.
 Skiers from Austria have dominated
 the event since it began at the 1988
 Calgary Games. Austrian skiers have
 now won eight of a possible 24 medals
 in the super-G.

 Sweden wins cross-country on
 furious rally: Charlotte Kalla erased
 a 25-second deficit on the final leg
 to give Sweden the gold in the relay.
 Finland finished second to win silver,
 and Germany took bronze. Norway was
 well behind in fifth. The Norwegian
 Women had not lost a 4x5-kilometer
 relay since 2009 and entered the race
 as huge favorites, with a team that
 featured the top four skiers in the
 overall World Cup standings.

 China, Russia earn short
 track gold: Zhou Yang of China
 won her second consecutive short
 track speedskating gold medal in the
 women's 1,500 meters a race that
 included a three-skater crash involving
 500-meter gold medalist Li Jianrou of
 China. Viktor Ahn of Russia won gold
 in the men's 1,000, with teammate
 Vladimir Grigorev taking the silver. It
 was Ahn's second medal at Sochi.

 "Russian Rocket" wins skeleton:
 Alexander Tretiakov won gold in men's
 skeleton. Known as the "Russian
 Rocket,"Tretiakov finished well ahead
 of Latvia's Martins Dukurs after hurtling
 down a track he's trained on more than
 anyone else. Matt Antoine of the United
 States won bronze, the first skeleton
 medal for the U.S. since Jimmy Shea
 won gold in 2002.

 Poland's Stoch sweeps ski jump
 events: Polish ski jumper Kamil Stoch
 completed a gold medal sweep of the
 normal and large hills. Noriaki Kasai
 of Japan won the silver on the large
 hill and Peter Prevc of Slovenia took
 bronze. Stoch joins Simon Ammann
 and Matti Nykanen as the only men to
 win both individual events at the same
 Winter Games.

 Canada women first through
 to semis: Canada became the first
 team to qualify for the semifinals in
 the women's curling by beating Russia
 and Japan. Sweden has the next best
 record, one game ahead of China,
 Britain and Switzerland. In the men's
 tournament, China and Sweden earned
 wins to stay at the top of the qualifying
 round standings. Canada and Britain
 are a game behind in the race for the
 four playoff spots.


 Sweden stays unbeaten;
Slovenia upsets Slovkia: Undefeated
Sweden beat Latvia 5-3 to become the
first men's team to advance to next
week's quarterfinals. Slovenia, playing
in its first Olympic hockey tournament,
surprised Slovakia 3-1. In the women's
tournament, Sweden upset Finland 4-2
and Switzerland beat Russia 2-0, setting
up next week's semifinals: Sweden vs.
the U.S. and Canada vs. Switzerland.


The Sun /Sunday, February 16, 2014


www.sunnewspapers.net SP Page 5