updated 1:43 p.m. ET Feb. 23, 2006

TURIN, Italy - Apollo Anto Ohno advanced while the U.S. men's hockey team was bounched out of the Games on Day 12.

A rundown of notable events:

Men's hockey

Shot after shot slid through Rick DiPietro’s pads, caromed in off his body and bounced the U.S. men’s hockey team out of the Olympics.

Olli Jokinen scored two power-play goals in the second period for Finland, which recovered after blowing an early two-goal lead and beat the United States in an Olympic quarterfinal game.

The U.S. team never got going in Turin and DiPietro wasn’t nearly as steady as he had been in the preliminary rounds, while Finnish goalie Antero Niittymaki made 15 of his 25 saves in the third period to hold off the United States’ final push.

The Finns (6-0) will play Russia in the semifinals on Friday while the Americans (1-4-1) will try to figure out why they managed only one win after capturing the silver medal four years ago in Salt Lake City.

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Canada-Russia made for the best hockey game in the Turin Olympics so far, and once again, Canada (3-3) couldn’t beat Russia (5-1) when it counted.

Alexander Ovechkin, an NHL player for only a few months, scored the pivotal first goal 90 seconds into the third period and Russia rode goaltender Evgeni Nabokov’s superb game to victory over the gold medal favorites.

Alex Kovalev sealed the tensely played game by scoring with 23 seconds remaining with Russia on a power play, after Nabokov stood up to the increasingly frantic Canadians by making big save after big save over the final five minutes. He stopped all 27 shots he faced.

It was the Russians’ eighth win in nine Olympic games against Canada. When Kovalev scored to put it away, a disgusted Wayne Gretzky, Canada’s executive director, headed to the exit.

Sweden (4-2) claimed a spot in the other semifinal with a win over Switzerland (2-2-2), justifying coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson’s suggestion that his team would be better off facing the Swiss than Canada or the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals.

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It didn’t take Sweden long to demonstrate its superiority over Switzerland, which boasted just three NHL players on its roster. The Swedes scoring four quick goals after Switzerland’s Mark Streit tied the score 1-1 midway through the first period.

Sweden will face the Czech Republic (3-3), which ousted “little brother” Slovakia (5-1) from the tournament in a lively border battle. Martin Rucinsky scored a short-handed goal and third-string goalie Milan Hnilicka made 20 saves as the Czechs rebounded impressively after a mediocre preliminary round.

The loss was crushing to the previously unbeaten Slovaks, who had more than Olympic glory riding on their game against the elite, star-studded half of the former Czechoslovakia.

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