Hockey
Switzerland stunned defending Olympic champion Canada with a victory that shook up the men’s hockey tournament, then the United States lost to Slovakia.

Canadian-born Paul DiPietro scored twice and goalie Martin Gerber turned aside 49 shots for the Swiss, who beat the near equivalent of an NHL all-star team with only two NHL players in their lineup.

Cheered on by hundreds of arena-rocking fans who chanted “Hop, Suisse! Hop, Suisse!” — the equivalent of Go Swiss! — the Swiss pulled off one of the biggest upsets in modern Olympic hockey history only two days after doing the same thing by beating the world champion Czech Republic 3-2.

Canada and Switzerland are now 2-1.

Atlanta Thrashers teammates Marian Hossa and Peter Bondra sandwiched goals around one by Brian Rolston to give Slovakia a win. Slovakia (3-0) strengthened its first-place hold in Group B, moving two points ahead of Russia (2-1) and Sweden and three in front of the Americans (1-1-1).

Jaromir Jagr was assisted off the ice with a bloody cut forehead, and the Czech Republic (1-2) suffered a loss that kept Finland (3-0) as one of two unbeatens.

Elsa / Getty Images Martin Brodeur of Canada fails to stop the second goal by Switzerland during second period of the the men's ice hockey game. The Swiss pulled off a stunning upset of the Canadians on Saturday. The United States lost to Slovakia later in the day.

Jagr, the NHL’s leading scorer, was helped to the locker room in the second period. His status is unknown.

Evgeni Nabokov made 24 saves in his second straight shutout and Alexander Kharitonov snapped a scoreless tie midway through the second period in Russia’s victory over Kazakhstan (0-3).

Peter Forsberg set up two goals in his first game of the tournament, helping the Swedes (2-1) beat Latvia (0-2-1). Forsberg had been out with a groin problem.

Christian Borgatello scored a short-handed goal with 1:32 left that put Italy (0-2-1) on the brink of victory, but Marcel Goc answered 15 seconds later for Germany (0-2-1), forcing a tie that probably means neither team will advance out of group play.

Alpine skiing
Kjetil Andre Aamodt of Norway successfully defended the men’s super-G title for his record eighth Olympic Alpine medal.

Aamodt, who was unable to defend his combined title earlier this week after hurting his knee in the Olympic downhill, covered the sun-drenched course in 1 minute, 30.65 seconds, just .13 in front of heavy favorite Hermann Maier of Austria, the World Cup super-G leader.

Switzerland’s Ambrosi Hoffmann took the bronze, .33 back.

It was the third super-G gold medal for the 34-year-old Aamodt, who also won in 1992 at Albertville. He already was the all-time Olympic Alpine medal winner, and he became the first skier — man or woman — to successfully defend the super-G, which was first included in the Winter Games at Calgary in 1988.

American Bode Miller’s Olympic struggles continued. Miller was already .46 back at the first interval when he failed to take a turn properly and veered off his line straight into a gate. He remained upright on one ski with the other flailing wildly at odd angles behind him, striking the ground and threatening to knock him off balance, but he managed to get his ski back on the ground and braked.

The race was restarted under sunny skies after an initial attempt in the morning was abandoned because the first racers down had trouble skiing through snow and fog.

Janica Kostelic won an Olympic medal again, and of course, the moment was gold.

The 24-year-old Croatian became the first woman to win four Olympic Alpine gold medals when she fought off illness to successfully defend her championship in the combined event.

Her five Olympic medals overall — she also has one silver — tied Kostelic for the most by a woman in Alpine skiing with Swiss great Vreni Schneider and German Katja Seizinger. Kostelic is entered in three more medal races these games.

Kostelic’s total time between the downhill and two slalom runs Friday night was 2:51.08, beating Austrian Marlies Schild by a half-second and leaving rival Anja Paerson of Sweden in third.

This after Kostelic had said she might not be able to race because of sickness.

Kostelic’s medal was the second for her family these games. Her brother, Ivica, won silver in the men’s Alpine combined. It’s the first time since 1980 in Lake Placid that a brother and sister have won medals at the same Olympics.

Ski jumping
Austria’s Thomas Morgenstern had the longest jump of the day, edging compatriot Andreas Kofler to win the gold medal in large hill ski jumping.

Morgenstern soared 140 meters on his second jump on the large hill to come from behind and beat first-round leader Kofler by one tenth of a point.

Morgenstern, who was second after a first jump of 133 meters, finished with 276.9 points to become the first Austrian to win on the big hill in 30 years.

Kofler had jumps of 134 and 139.5 meters to finish second with 276.8 points. Normal hill gold medalist Lars Bystoel of Norway took the bronze with 250.7 points after jumps of 127.5 and 131.5 meters.

Cross-country skiing
Evgenia Medvedeva-Abruzova made up a 12½-second deficit on the leading Germans with her final leg to lift Russia to the Olympic gold in the women’s 4x5km cross-country relay.

After taking over the lead, Medvedeva-Abruzova skated all alone through the final stretch to finish in a time of 54 minutes, 47.7 seconds.

Claudia Kuenzel of defending champion Germany dropped out of the top three after giving up the lead, but fought back to cross second for the silver, 10 seconds behind Russia.

Italy came in 1 second after Germany to take the bronze, keeping the favored Norwegians off the podium. Sweden was fourth and Norway fifth.

Bobsled
Americans Todd Hays and Pavle Jovanovic were in sixth place following the first two runs of the two-man bobsled competition.

Hays, a former college linebacker and kickboxing champion from Del Rio, Texas, piloted USA-1 down the tricky 19-turn track in 1 minute, 51.53 seconds, .52 seconds behind Germany’s Andre Lange.

Lange, the defending four-man Olympic champion, nearly made a solo trip on his second run when brakeman Kevin Kuske slipped getting into the sled and was briefly dragged. But Lange, who set a track record (55.28 seconds) on his first run, made up for the mishap and has a .06-second lead.

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