By The Associated Press

Day 6 of the Turin Olympics

Wednesday, Feb. 15

STARS

Michaela Dorfmeister, competing in her final Olympics, became the first Austrian to win the women's downhill since 1980.

Dale Begg-Smith won the gold in moguls skiing for Australia's first medal of the Turin Games. Finn Mikko Ronkainen took the silver, and American Toby Dawson finished third.

MORE OF THE SAME

The list of American stars struggling at these Olympics grew even longer. Moguls skier Jeremy Bloom finished sixth, Chad Hedrick and his team were knocked out in the quarterfinals of speedskating pursuit, and Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin crashed in the luge. Then, the U.S. men's hockey team tied Latvia 3-3. Somehow, the United States still leads all nations with five gold medals.

NO PAIN, NO GAIN

American Lindsey Kildow, skiing 48 hours after a horrific crash in a training run put her in a hospital overnight, managed to return for the women's downhill. She tied for eighth, 1.29 seconds behind the winner.

CRASH

Ukrainian lugers Oleg Zherebetskyy and Roman Yazvinskyy smashed into an upper wall near the bottom and flipped. The impact severed the front right runner of their sled, and Yazvinskyy was taken by helicopter to a hospital with an unspecified head injury. Austrian brothers Andreas and Wolfgang Linger won the gold.

NO CONTEST

Second-place Johnny Weir admits there's little chance of anyone catching Russian Evgeni Plushenko in Thursday night's men's figure skating final. Weir will try to hold on to at least a silver.

TURIN TALK

"I had a chance to look up and I found my wife and kids. It almost made me cry having my family watch me out there in this game, in this setting." — Italian hockey player Jason Cirone, who scored early in the second period against gold-medal favorite Canada to tie the game at 1. Canada went on to win 7-2.