OLYMPICS NOTES
Day 4 of the Turin OlympicsMonday, Feb. 13STARSTatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin took the pairs figure skating title, keeping one of the Olympics' greatest dynasties going. A Russian or Soviet pair has won the gold medal every year since 1964.Joey Cheek earned the Americans' second speedskating gold of the Turin Games, winning the 500 meters. Chad Hedrick took the 5,000 Saturday.Americans Hannah Teter won gold and Gretchen Bleiler won silver in the halfpipe, adding more hardware to the two snowboarding medals the U.S. men won the day before.
SCARYSeveral Olympians suffered frightening crashes and falls. American Lindsey Kildow was one of four downhill skiers who fell during training, and American Samantha Retrosi was among several lugers who lost control during the first two runs of that event. Retrosi was taken away on a stretcher and is out of the games. Zhang Dan fell in a split during the pairs final, but she and her partner continued after a delay and won the silver medal.
BODE'S BACKBode Miller returns to the slopes in the combined Tuesday after finishing fifth in the downhill, and American Courtney Zablocki goes for a medal in luge.
TURIN TALK"She doesn't remember the crash, which is probably a good thing." — U.S. team leader Fred Zimny after Retrosi's luge mishap.
