Overanxious Ohno comes through in end

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Women's 1,000 meters
South Korea’s Jin Sun-Yu won the women’s 1,000-meter short track speedskating Saturday night, earning her second gold of the Winter Games.

China’s Wang Meng, the 500 Olympic champion, earned the silver. Yang Yang of China took the bronze.

Jin’s teammate, Choi Eun-Kyung, was disqualified for impeding in the four-woman final.

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The Chinese led through the early stages of the nine-lap race. The South Koreans made their move late, with Jin overtaking Wang on next-to-last turn and holding on.

Men's skiing
Fittingly, three Austrians were the last men standing in the final Alpine event of the Turin Olympics.

Benjamin Raich earned his second gold medal of the games and led an Austrian sweep in the men’s slalom to complete that country’s most successful Olympic Alpine competition ever.

Reinfried Herbst was second and Rainer Schoenfelder third to give Austria a record 14 Alpine medals. The Americans, who had talked of challenging the Austrians, leave with two.

It was the first time one nation swept the medals in an Olympic slalom race and only the fifth sweep in any Alpine event. Austria has three of them.

“This is the greatest Olympics ever for us,” Austrian Alpine director Hans Pum said.

So much for this being the Olympics where the United States would challenge Austria’s supremacy in the mountains.

Top American hopes Ted Ligety and Bode Miller were eliminated, along with local favorite Giorgio Rocca of Italy, in a brutal first of the two runs.

When it was over, Herbst and Schoenfelder hoisted Raich on their shoulders in celebration in the finish area.

Raich won with a combined two-run time of 1 minute, 43.14 seconds. He had the fastest times in both runs to add the slalom gold to the one he won in the giant slalom on Monday. Herbst was a distant .83 seconds behind and Schoenfelder 1.01 seconds back.

Kalle Palander of Finland, second-fastest in the first run, appeared to have taken the lead but was disqualified for straddling a gate, the same fate that befell Ligety in the first run. Palander slammed one ski pole to the snow after realizing what had happened.

CONTINUED : Czech skate to bronze medal

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