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...women half-pipe snowboarders almost missed their final runs--the most important moment of their athletic lives--because they had crept away to an off-limits slope to sneak in some extra rides. Hannah Teter, 19, and Gretchen Bleiler, 24, returned in time to take home gold and silver, respectively. In the finals of the snowboard cross, a new, Roller-Derby-on-snow Olympic event in which four boarders twist and fly down a mountain to the finish, favorite Seth Wescott, 29, should have panicked, trailing Slovakia's Radoslav Zidek late in the race. (It's the Olympics...
Snowboarding's carefree psyche does have its faults. For instance, it might actually help to pay attention to the competition. Snowboard crosser Lindsey Jacobellis was cruising last week to the team's fourth straight snowboard gold, which would have given the U.S. a clean sweep. Her lead was so big she could have snowshoed to the finish. But on the second- to-last jump she hot-dogged it, clutching the rail of her board in mid-air, and botched the landing so badly she fell and got silver instead. Going for show is totally in keeping with the snowboard...
...held the position on her third-and-final lap, and Scott began the final loop a nose behind Finland's Virpi Kuitunen, neck-and-neck with Sweden's Lina Andersson. The race came down to the final stretch, when Andersson broke a stride clear of Scott to win the gold medal with Anna Dahlberg in 16 minutes 36.9 seconds. Scott, 31, and Renner, 29, finished 0.6 seconds behind for the silver. Finland won the bronze, 2.3 seconds off the pace, and Norway finished fourth...
...Renner and Scott have raced against and with each other in Alberta since childhood days. "I said to Sara when we were finishing our warmup today, 'We've come a long way baby,'" said Scott, who almost retired after winning a gold medal in Salt Lake City, and almost certainly will stop ski racing after this World Cup season. "To finish it with an Olympic medal...well, I'm not going to say it's surreal," Scott said. "We promised each other that we wouldn't get to get too fruity at the end of this...
...Brydon was the top Canadian, finishing 20th, followed by Kelly VanderBeek of Chilliwack, B.C., in 24th, Shona Rubens (26th) of Canmore, Alberta and Sherry Lawrence (27th) of Calgary. The winner was Austrian Michaela Dorfmeister who just weeks away from retirement capped a remarkable career with her first Olympic gold medal. Dorfmeister won in one minute 56.49 seconds, 0.37 seconds clear of silver medalist Martina Schild of Switzerland. Anja Paerson of Sweden took the bronze...