updated 11:29 p.m. ET Feb. 20, 2006

TURIN, Italy - Silver medals on the ice produced different emotions for U.S. athletes on Day 10 of the games.

Americans ended a 30-year drought in ice dancing, but the women's hockey team skated to a somewhat disappointing bronze. A rundown of events:

Ice dancing
At last, a figure skating medal for the United States — in ice dancing, of all things. And yet another Olympic gold for Russia.

Tanith Belbin and partner Ben Agosto snapped the U.S. medals drought in figure skating with a silver. They were behind Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov, who gave Russia a gold medal hat trick — pairs, men’s and dance. No nation has swept the four skating events in one games, and Russian Irina Slutskaya is favored in the women’s competition.

“I am extremely proud that we’ve been able to achieve this for our country,” said the Canadian-born Belbin, who became a U.S. citizen on Dec. 31.

Belbin and Agosto won the first dance medal for the United States since a bronze in 1976 — and only the second medal of any kind. It also is the only medal for American figure skaters at these Olympics.

Elena Grushina and Ruslan Goncharov of Ukraine won the bronze.

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All three couples performed with poise and style. Even better, nobody crashed to the ice.

Sunday’s original dance was marred by falls and an injury that forced the top Canadians out of the free dance. Italian favorites Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio were back, friends again, after their flop and subsequent venomous staredown.

Not only were they clean, but they kissed and made up after four minutes of tense skating featuring some intricate lifts and carries. She put her arm around his shoulder as they sat next to each other this time — observing the mediocre scores that placed them sixth.

Men's giant slalom
Austria’s Benjamin Raich ended his 10-day struggle at the Olympics with a win in the men’s giant slalom.

American Bode Miller, who was just 12th after the opening leg, tied for sixth in 2:36.06 with Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal, after a red-hot second run.

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Raich, who won the last two World Cup giant slalom races before the games, was only fifth after the opening leg but vaulted onto the top step of the podium with a brilliant second effort, crossing with a two-run combined time of 2 minutes, 35.00 seconds.

Joel Chenal of France, ranked only 17th in the World Cup GS standings but second after the first run, showed remarkable nerve and won the silver, .07 behind. Hermann Maier of Austria won the bronze, .16 back, to go with his silver in the super-G.

Raich was once known as a choker but earned the nickname “Mr. Consistency” last season by finishing all 38 races he entered. However, he’s been a more up-and-down skier this season.

With eight career World Cup giant slalom wins, Raich is the reigning World Cup champion in the discipline and was silver medalist in the event at the world championships in Bormio last winter.

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