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Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto finished behind Russians Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov. Russians have won gold in all figure skating events at Turin.

Women's two-man bobsled
Shauna Rohbock got pushed aside four years ago, forced to stand at the finish line and cheer when Vonetta Flowers and the U.S. team slid to Olympic bobsled history.

Now, Rohbock is on the edge of making a little of her own.

Rohbock, who was replaced by Flowers just before the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, and brakeman Valerie Fleming are in third place following the first two heats of women’s bobsled, trailing a pair of German sleds.

The Americans, desperate for a boost to what has so far been a disappointing stay in the Alps, barely trail Germany-1, piloted by Sandra Kiriasis, and Germany-2, driven by Susi-Lisa Erdmann.

Kiriasis leads with a time of 1 minute, 54.93 seconds down the 19-turn course. Erdmann is .08 seconds behind that, while Rohbock trails by a mere .09 seconds.

The third and fourth runs are scheduled for Tuesday.

Men's freestyle skiing aerials
Jeret “Speedy” Peterson was the lone American of four to advance to finals in men’s aerials, a disappointing effort for a U.S. freestyle team considered one of the best in the world.

While Peterson made it, Joe Pack, Ryan St. Onge and Eric Bergoust all failed to advance to Wednesday night’s 12-man finals. Pack, the defending Olympic silver medalist, is ranked eighth in the world and St. Onge is ranked fourth.

Xiopeng Han of China led the qualifying, followed by Dmitri Dashinki of Belarus and Warren Shouldice of Canada, who has dual citizenship in the United States.