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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.

The U.S. Olympic team that parades into the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Games in Vancouver on Friday will bear, for the first time ever, the look and swagger of a winter sports powerhouse.