Winter Olympics Day 15 Results: USA and Canada will play for hockey gold; Ohno, Vonn fail to finish

After Day 15 of the Winter Olympic Games, we know that the American and Canadian hockey teams will face off in the gold medal event. Sunday’s game will be a rematch of the 2002 Olympic face-off between the two teams, which Canada won 5-2. On Friday, USA beat Finland by a decisive 6-1 score, and Canada held off Slovakia for a 3-2 win.

Elsewhere in Vancouver, Apolo Ohno was disqualified after a crash in the short-track medal event. Canada won gold and silver medals in the event.

Day 14 belonged to Kim Yu-Na. The 19-year old from South Korea turned in a world-record on her way to winning gold in Women’s Figure Skating, turning the competition into a one-woman show. Canadian Joannie Rochette gave a courageous performance for the bronze medal. America was left off the podium for the first time since 1964.

Two powers met for the gold medal in women’s hockey, and it was Canada coming out on top, blanking the United States 2-0 for their third straight Olympic title. Earlier in the day, Finland beat Sweden for the bronze.

Men’s Hockey quarterfinals took center stage Wednesday at the Olympics. Team USA got two goals from Zach Parise in a 2-0 win over Switzerland, America’s first shutout since the 2002 games. Next up for the Americans: the winner of Finland-Czech Republic. Good news, by the way: that U.S. game on Friday will be shown live, in ALL time zones.

In the second quarterfinal, Canada reasserted their dominance with a dismantling of Russia, 7-3. The host country gets the winner of Sweden-Slovakia in the semifinals on Friday.

Day 12 began where most days at Vancouver have started: on the slopes of Whistler. Tuesday was the Men’s Giant Slalom, and it was the first Alpine event in these Olympics in which an American has not medaled. A pre-race U.S. favorite, Ted Ligety, managed just a ninth-place finish, while Bode Miller missed a gate on his first run and failed to finish.

In Men’s Speed Skating, Holland’s Sven Kramer raced out to the fastest time in the 10,000m Tuesday afternoon, blowing everyone else away by a full four seconds. And then he was disqualified. Kramer, the world record holder and three-time world champion in the event, turned in the fastest time, but failed to switch lanes after the midway point of the race, and as a result, was disqualified. He was a tad bit upset after the race.

History was made on the ice rink Monday. Well, Ice Dance history was made at least. Canada’s team of Virtue and Moir became the first ever North American team to win gold in ice dancing at the Olympics, holding of Americans Davis and White, who took home the silver medal.

In Women’s Hockey, Team USA advance to its third gold medal final, routing Sweden, 9-1. On Thursday, the Americans will face the Canadian women in the gold medal match. The host country advanced with their 5-0 win over Finland Monday night.

The highlight of Day 10 in Vancouver came at night. It was not the second coming of the Miracle on Ice (or anything even remotely close to it) but Team USA did beat Canada, 5-3, led by a pair of Brian Rafalski goals. Canada now has to play an extra game in qualification, while the U.S. receives a bye, and what should be an easier quarterfinal game. Read plenty more at SB Nation’s game stream.

In the third men’s alpine skiing event of the Winter Games, American Bode Miller won his third medal. And in Sunday’s Super Combined, it was his first ever Olympic gold. Miller was in seventh place after the morning’s downhill run, but then vaulted himself atop the medal stand with one of the fastest slalom runs. Bode’s total of five career Olympics medals is two more than any other U.S. skier.

At the end of Saturday, the United States is still leading all countries with a whopping 23 medals, with Germany and Norway a distant second and third, respectively. For the full tally, check out SB Nation’s medal tracker.

Apolo Ohno set the record for most medals in the history of U.S. winter olympians, and he just missed setting an internet record on Twitter.

By the end of Friday, the eighth day of the Vancouver Olympic Games, the United States still possessed its lead in the medal count. America now holds 20 total medals (six gold, six silver, and six bronze) and is well on its way to surpassing the 25-medal effort in 2006. For the full tally, check out our medal tracker.

After losing their first four matches, the USA curling team decided to bench skip John Shuster. The move paid off for the Americans, who finally notched their first win with a 4-3 triumph over France.

Evan Lysacek was the start of the show in Vancouver on Day 7. The American upset the might Russian and defending gold medalist Evgeni Plushenko in Men’s Figure Skating with the best routine of his life. “It was definitely my best, and that’s what I came here to do,” Lysacek said.

The American’s success on the halfpipe continued Thursday night, with Hannah Teter wining silver and Kelly Clark taking the bronze. But the real story was Australia’s Torah Bright rallying back after a fall on her first run in the finals to win the gold medal.

Sorry, World, but Day 6 in Vancouver belonged to America.

The United States won three gold medals on Wednesday, something it has only done once before (Feb. 13 in the 2002 Games), and took home six medals overall, which is the most ever won in a single day in U.S. Olympic Winter Games history. Everyone together now:

Day 5 at the 2010 Winter Olympics began with what else: a weather delay. At least this time though, Vancouver got creative: Tuesday’s men’s super combined was postponed because of too MUCH snow. So at least they’re heading in the right direction. It will now be skied on Sunday, Feb. 21; men’s giant slalom will be moved to Tuesday, Feb. 23.

Then, the highlight of the Winter Games begin, a sport so pure that not even Vancouver could mess it up: Curling. (In fact, everyone agrees this is some of the best ice the Olympics has seen in recent time.) Both the U.S. Men and Women got off to a disappointing start in round robin play, but both can rebound win a win in late-night action. Best part: there’s another six hours of the soothing sport scheduled for Wednesday.

Alpine Skiing finally got underway on Monday after two delays because of slushy snow, with the Men’s Downhill. American Bode Miller won bronze, while Switzerland’s Didier Defago took home gold. In perhaps its worst display of broadcasting so far these games, NBC decided to show just roughly 38 minutes on the event (literally just six of the 64 skiers), hours after it had finished and the results were already plastered online. And all this after they introduced it as a “marquee event.”

In Men’s Snowboard Cross, Seth Wescott defended his gold medal from 2006 with a wild, come-from-behind win to overtake Canada’s Mike Robertson.

History was made in two events on Day 3 of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

First, American Johnny Spillane captured silver in the Men’s Nordic Combined (NH/10km), giving the United States its first medal ever in the sport. Amazingly, it was almost two medals, but fellow countryman Todd Lodwick missed a bronze by just 0.7 seconds.

Here are the results from Day 2’s medal rounds. Entering Sunday, the United States leads the Vancouver Winter Olympics with four medals (one gold, one silver, and two bronze). Canada has earned one silver medal.

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Gold: Simon Ammann (Switzerland)

Silver: Adam Malysz (Poland)

Bronze: Gregor SChlierenzauer (Austria)

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