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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.

U.S. skier Bode Miller won the gold medal in the men's super combined at the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Sunday. It is the first Olympic gold medal of Miller's career and fifth medal overall. He already has three silvers and a bronze. It is his third medal of the Vancouver Games, a U.S. alpine skiing record, and it is the U.S. team's eighth medal at these Games, also a U.S. record.

Bronze medalist Scott Lago apologized to U.S. officials and volunteered to leave the Olympic Games after racy pictures of him, his medal and a female fan showed up on the Internet, a spokesman for the U.S. ski and snowboard team confirmed Saturday.

An overnight snowstorm forced ski officials to postpone Tuesday's Olympic men's super-combined race and call off women's downhill training, the latest events to fall victim to the problematic weather at the games....