Day 4

After day three in which the U.S. exerted continued dominance in a sport it created (snowboarding) and Russia earned gold in pairs figure skating even though China had a magnificent showing coming up with the silver, bronze, and fourth place I wonder interesting stories the Olympics had to bring today. Here are the results for today’s medal events:

Alpine Skiing
Men’s Combined
Gold Ted Ligety (United States)
Silver Ivica Kostelic (Croatia)
Bronze Rainer Schoenfelder (Austria)

Biathlon
Men’s 10km Sprint
Gold Sven Fischer (Germany)
Silver Halvard Hanevold (Norway)
Bronze Frode Andresen (Norway)

Cross-Country Skiing
Women’s Team Sprint
Gold Anna Dahlberg & Lina Andersson (Sweden)
Silver Sara Renner & Beckie Scott (Canada)
Bronze Aino Kaisa Saarinen & Virpi Kuitunen (Finland)

Cross-Country Skiing
Men’s Team Sprint
Gold Thobias Fredriksson & Bjoern Lind (Sweden)
Silver Jens Arne Svartedal & Tor Arne Hetland (Norway)
Bronze Ivan Alypov & Vassili Rotchev (Russia)

Luge
Women’s Singles
Gold Sylke Otto (Germany)
Silver Silke Kraushaar (Germany)
Bronze Tatjana Huefner (Germany)

Speed Skating
Women’s 500m
Gold Hui Ren (China)
Silver Svetlana Zhurova (Russia)
Bronze Sang Hwa Lee (South Korea)

And here are the medal standings, by country, and the end of day four.


Norway
11 medals total
1 Gold
5 Silver
5 Bronze




Russia
9 medals total
4 Gold
3 Silver
2 Bronze




United States
7 medals total
5 Gold
2 Silver
0 Bronze




Germany
7 medals total
4 Gold
1 Silver
2 Bronze




China
5 medals total
0 Gold
2 Silver
3 Bronze




Netherlands
3 medals total
1 Gold
2 Silver
0 Bronze




Canada
3 medals total
1 Gold
1 Silver
1 Bronze




South Korea
3 medals total
1 Gold
1 Silver
1 Bronze




Italy
3 medal total
1 Gold
0 Silver
2 Bronze




Austria
3 medals total
0 Gold
2 Silver
1 Bronze




Finland
3 medals total
0 Gold
1 Silver
2 Bronze




Sweden
2 medals total
2 Gold
0 Silver
0 Bronze




France
2 medals total
1 Gold
0 Silver
1 Bronze




Estonia
1 medal total
1 Gold
0 Silver
0 Bronze




Croatia
1 medal total
0 Gold
1 Silver
0 Bronze




Czech Republic
1 medal total
0 Gold
1 Silver
0 Bronze




Latvia
1 medal total
0 Gold
0 Silver
1 Bronze




Switzerland
1 medal total
0 Gold
0 Silver
1 Bronze