Written by admin on 22 February 2010
Feb. 21 at the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, drawn six sets of awards:
Authorities in Vancouver have limited the sale of alcohol the day before the next Olympics. The reason for this became at once the three key hockey match between Russia and the Czech Republic, Canada and the USA, Finland and Sweden. In the center of the city liquor can be bought in stores only until 7 pm, and entertainment establishments will work until two o’clock in the morning.
in alpine skiing men (supercombination) - 1. Bode Miller (USA) 2:44.92, 2. Ivica Kostelic (Croatia) 0.33 3. Sylvain Zurbriggen (Switzerland) 0.40.
in biathlon men (mass start, 15 km) - 1. Eugene Ustyugov (Russia) 35 minutes 35.7 seconds, with no misses, 2. Martin Fourcade (France) 10.5, 3 misses, 3. Hurayt Pavol (Slovakia) 16.6, no misses.
Ukrainian Sergei Sednev and Andrei Deryzemlya lost-time leader of the 1 minute 27 seconds (21 th) and 2 minutes 8 seconds (26 th).
in biathlon women (mass-start, 12,5 km) - 1. Magdalena Neuner (Germany) 35 minutes 19.6 seconds, 2 missed 2. Olga Zaitseva (Russia) 5.5, 1 missed 3. Simon Hausvald (FRG) 7.3, 2 misses.
Ukrainki Elena Podgrushnaya, Valya Partridge and Oksana Khvostenko lost time leader 1:03.2 (12 th), 1:52.9 (19 th) and 3:51.4 (29 th).
Ski Crosse men - 1. Michael Schmid (Switzerland), 2. Andreas Matt (Austria) 3. Audun Grönwohld (Norway).
in speed skating for women (1500 m) - 1. Irene Wust (Netherlands) 1 minute 56.89 seconds 2. Kristina Groves (Canada) 0.25 3. Martin Sáblíková (Czech Republic) 1.07.
Bobsleigh in men (two) - 1. Andre Lange and Kevin Kuske (Germany) 3 minutes 26.65 seconds 2. Thomas Florshyutts and Richard Adjei (Germany) 0.22; Alexander Zubkov and Alexey Voevoda (Russia) 0.86.