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...hill three days later, Ammann's confidence couldn't get any higher. After the first jump of the medal round, he was tied on points with Hannawald. On his second and final attempt, Hannawald jumped short and fell on landing, which pushed him back to fourth place behind Finland's Matti Hautamaeki. With Malysz in silver- medal position, Ammann knew he had to pull out a good jump. He did, launching the competition's longest jump, 133 m, for his second gold. "I knew immediately that this was the jump," he said. "It was such a good feeling...
...surprise of no one, the U.S., Canada, Finland and Sweden filled out the women’s hockey Olympic semifinals after each team upped its record to 2-0 for the tournament...
...destroyed China 12-1 last night, and Canada outmatched Russia 7-0 on Wednesday morning. Since Finland and Sweden each won their second games as well, each of the four teams clinched first or second place in their preliminary round-robin pools and advanced to the medal round...
...next plays Finland at 1 p.m. tomorrow to determine the winner of Pool B. The closest the Fins have come to beating the U.S. was in the 2000 World Championships when they blew a 3-1 lead to the U.S. en route to a 4-3 loss...
National teams such as Sweden and Finland have, by contrast, allowed their players to continue to play in Divison I colleges this year, which could make the U.S. and Canada even more dominant...