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Lindsey Vonn is sure to compete in the final women's Alpine ski race of the Vancouver Olympics despite fracturing her little finger on Wednesday, the U.S. team's head coach said.

Lindsey Vonn crashed and failed to finish the first run of the fog-shrouded Olympic giant slalom race Wednesday and broke her right pinkie.

Zach Parise scored twice in the third period as the United States survived a scare Wednesday, beating Switzerland 2-0 in their quarterfinal men's hockey game Wednesday.

Holland's Sven Kramer was as certain a gold medalist in the 10,000 meters as any contestant in any event at these Games. The world-record holder had been on his way to an Olympic record with eight laps to skate, holding a steadily expanding lead of more than six seconds over Lee Seung-Hoon of South Korea. That's when Kramer's coach, Gerard Kemkers, called out "inner lane!"

With breathtaking, seamless moves that made them appear to be floating, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won the free dance to clinch the first gold medal in ice dancing for a non-European team.

The American team avenged its 2006 Olympic loss against Sweden Monday with a 9-1 victory, and reached its third gold medal game in three Olympic tournaments.

Terrible day for the United States Olympic team yesterday: It won only four medals.

Lindsey Vonn lived up to her billing as the golden girl of the Winter Olympics with a dominant victory in the women's downhill at Whistler Creek on Wednesday.

US short track skater Apolo Anton Ohno has been portrayed as unworthy of a medal in a worrying echo of the bitter resentment which erupted between America and South Korea at the controversial 2002 Olympics.

There was no way he should have been on that medal stand. Going into the final turn of Saturday night's 1,500-meter short-track speed skating final, J.R. Celski was fifth.