By The Associated Press

Day 14 of the Turin Olympics

Thursday, Feb. 23

STARS

Shizuka Arakawa of Japan skated a clean long program and vaulted past Sasha Cohen of the U.S. and Irina Slutskaya of Russia — both of whom fell during their free skates — to win gold in women's figure skating.

Rosey Fletcher broke through in snowboard's parallel giant slalom event, winning a bronze medal for the U.S. after faltering in the last two Olympics.

Anette Norberg, skip of the Swedish women's curling team, knocked away two Swiss stones on the last rock of the 11th end to score a 7-6 gold-medal win for Sweden.

STREAK CONTINUES

For the 11th straight Winter Games, a U.S. woman figure skater is going home with a medal. Sasha Cohen took silver, despite falling twice during her free skate, carrying on a tradition that dates to Peggy Fleming's gold medal at the 1968 Grenoble Games.

SLALOMING SWISS

For the second time in two days, it was Switzerland on top at the end of a snowboarding parallel giant slalom competition, as three-time defending world cup champion Daniela Meuli of Switzerland captured women's gold. On Wednesday, Swiss brothers Philipp and Simon Schoch went gold-silver in the men's event.

ALL EUROPEANS

Today's men's hockey semifinals are an all-European affair, filled with teams and players who know each other well from the NHL and numerous international tournaments. Sweden plays the Czech Republic — a team the Swedes' coach said he didn't want to face earlier this week — while Russia and Finland, who ousted North American powers Canada and the U.S. in the quarters, face off for the other gold-medal berth.

TURIN TALK

"Hey, I don't know where I am going to shoot. How is he going to know?" — Czech hockey star Jaromir Jagr, dismissing the idea that Swedish goalie Henrik Lundqvist would have an advantage over him because the two face each other in practice daily with the New York Rangers.