Speedskating: South Korea won another stunning gold at the Olympic speedskating oval Tuesday as Lee Sang-hwa knocked off two favorites in the women's 500 meters. German world-record holder Jenny Wolf and China's Wang Beixing came in expecting to battle for top spot on the podium, having swept all eight 500 races during the World Cup season. But Lee held off Wolf by five-hundredths of a second, winning with a total time of 1 minute, 16.09 seconds. Wang took the bronze in 1:16.63. The top American was Olympic rookie Heather Richardson, an impressive sixth in 1:17.17. . . . For the men, American Shani Davis, whose best finish is 12th in two races so far, faces pandora style beads a tough battle today in the 1,000-meter race against Mo Tae-bum of South Korea, who already has a gold medal in the 500.
Luge: Tatjana Huefner added yet another layer to her country's magnificent run of dominance in the fastest sliding sport, giving Germany its ninth women's singles luge gold in 13 Olympic competitions. Her four-run time of 2 minutes, 46.524 seconds was 0.490 seconds better than Austria's Nina Reithmayer, while Germany's Natalie Geisenberger claimed the bronze. American Erin Hamlin, the 2009 women's world champion, couldn't adjust to the new starting point on the Whistler Sliding Track and finished well back in 16th. "A winner is a winner, and the top people are still doing well," said Hamlin. "So you can't really take anything away from them."
Biathlon: Bjorn Ferry of Sweden won the men's 12.5-kilometer biathlon pursuit for wholesale colthing his first Olympic medal. Ferry took the lead on the final lap after his fourth shoot and had a winning time of 33 minutes, 38.4 seconds, 16.5 seconds faster than silver medalist Christoph Sumann of Austria. France's Vincent Jay took bronze . . . In the 10K biathlon pursuit, Magdalena Neuner of Germany won a second medal.
Curling: The U.S. men dropped their Olympic opener to Germany, 7- 5, missing many scoring chances while skip John Shuster and two of his three teammates struggled with their shotmaking against Andy Kapp's experienced German squad. . . . Japan scored three points in both the fifth and seventh ends to rally back from a three-point deficit and spoil U.S. skip Debbie McCormick's Olympic return, beating the Americans, 9-7, in a dramatic finish that brought out an official measurement, where it was determined that Chanel Replica Handbags Japan's rock was a hair closer in the innermost scoring circle.
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