VANCOUVER (Reuters) – A little known skier emerged from a foggy giant slalom course to snatch gold for Germany on Thursday and put her country on top of the Olympic medal table, one notch above the United States and hosts Canada.

After weather forced the postponement of the second run on Wednesday, Viktoria Rebensburg weaved her way to the front from a sixth place position after the first leg in another upset for the once all-conquering Austrian ski team at these Winter Games.

VANCOUVER (Reuters) – The Canadian men restored order in their Olympic ice hockey house on Wednesday and headed to the semi-finals after a 7-3 rout of Russia that eased the pain of a demoralizing loss to the Americans.

Hockey-crazed Canadians celebrated the redeem team across the Winter Games host nation, but especially in Olympic venue Vancouver where Maple leaf-clad fans went wild in the stadium and on the streets.

VANCOUVER, Feb 24 (Reuters) – The Canadian men restored
order in their Olympic ice hockey house on Wednesday and headed
to the semi-finals after a 7-3 rout of Russia that eased the
pain of a demoralising loss to the Americans.

Hockey-crazed Canadians celebrated the redeem team across
the Winter Games host nation, but especially in Olympic venue
Vancouver where Maple leaf-clad fans went wild in the stadium
and on the streets.

VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Canadian skier Ashleigh McIvor wrote an essay for her college English class back in 2003 — a hypothetical letter to the International Olympic Committee about why ski cross should be in the Winter Games.

Now she can put two footnotes on that essay:

1. The IOC made ski cross an Olympic sport for the 2010 Games.

2. I won the gold medal.

Talk about writing your own destiny.

“I am beginning to think that everything that has happened in my life has happened for a reason and I was just meant to be here at this point and racing on this course,” the 26-year-old McIvor told Reuters after winning her gold medal on Tuesday.

VANCOUVER, Feb 23 (Reuters) – Canadian skier Ashleigh McIvor
wrote an essay for her college English class back in 2003 — a
hypothetical letter to the International Olympic Committee about
why ski cross should be in the Winter Games.

Now she can put two footnotes on that essay:

1. The IOC made ski cross an Olympic sport for the 2010
Games.

2. I won the gold medal.

Talk about writing your own destiny.

“I am beginning to think that everything that has happened
in my life has happened for a reason and I was just meant to be
here at this point and racing on this course,” the 26-year-old
McIvor told Reuters after winning her gold medal on Tuesday.

VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Germany surged to the top of the Winter Games medals table alongside the United States on Monday while host nation Canada struggled with a demoralizing ice hockey defeat and diminishing medal hopes.

Germany won gold in the women’s cross country team sprint to go level with the high-flying Americans at seven gold medals apiece in 10 days of Olympic competition.

VANCOUVER, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Germany surged to the top of
the Winter Games medals table alongside the United States on
Monday while host nation Canada struggled with a demoralising
ice hockey defeat and diminishing medal hopes.

Germany won gold in the women’s cross country team sprint to
go level with the high-flying Americans at seven gold medals
apiece in 10 days of Olympic competition.

WHISTLER (Reuters) – Only once Rachel Crook got off the ski course did she realize that millions of people had watched her do what she had done hundreds of times before in relative obscurity — rescue a fallen skier.

The skier is “a patient who needs our help,” but he is also an Olympic athlete on race day, thrusting Crook and her fellow mountain medical team members on to the world stage.

WHISTLER, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Only once Rachel Crook got off
the ski course did she realise that millions of people had
watched her do what she had done hundreds of times before in
relative obscurity — rescue a fallen skier.

The skier is “a patient who needs our help,” but he is also
an Olympic athlete on race day, thrusting Crook and her fellow
mountain medical team members on to the world stage.

VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Bode Miller of the United States, for so long the nearly man of the Winter Olympics, slalomed from deep in the pack to snatch gold in the men’s super combined on Sunday as Vancouver reveled in three historic ice hockey rivalries.

Day nine of competition at the Winter Games also brought a third gold for the Netherlands’ speedskating team, this time for the women, and the second gold for German biathlete Magdalena Neuner.