Curling
The American women finally won at curling.
"Whoop whoop!" Nicole Joraanstad tweeted. "Felt great to win today. It is now time to start the winning streak!"
U.S. skip Debbie McCormick, feeling the pressure after an 0-3 start, led her team past Russia 6-4 Friday in the round-robin portion of the schedule. The American men also earned their first win, 4-3 over France. The men are 1-4.
The women won with a deuce in the final end. McCormick nailed her last rock and bumped out a Russian stone.
Skeleton
Amy Williams finished off a surprising run to the women's skeleton gold medal, giving Britain its first individual Winter Olympics title since figure skater Robin Cousins prevailed at Lake Placid in 1980.
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Williams finished four runs at the Whistler Sliding Center in 3minutes 35.64 seconds. Germans took silver and bronze, with Kerstin Szymkowiak finishing 0.56 of a second off Williams' pace and Anja Huber coming in third.
American Noelle Pikus-Pace finished fourth in her final race before retirement, missing bronze by 0.10 of a second.
• Canada's Jon Montgomery won gold in men's skeleton, edging Latvia's Martins Dukurs.
Montgomery completed his four runs down the Whistler Sliding Center track in 3 minutes 29.73 seconds. After finishing his last run, he waited at the finish area and watched as Dukurs bumped the wall after the final curve. Russia's Alexander Tretyakov was third in 3:30.75.
Figure skating
World champions Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin of Russia won the compulsory portion of ice dance.
Their 9.0 interpretation mark helped give them 43.76 points for an expressive program to the tango romantica. That is 1.02 points ahead of Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir heading into Sunday's original dance, the second of three parts in the ice dancing event.
Two-time American champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White are third with 41.47 points, followed by 2006 Olympic silver medalists Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto of the United States with 40.83.
Ice dance competition concludes Monday night with the free dance.
Women's cross-country skiing
Marit Bjoergen of Norway became the first double gold-medal winner of the Vancouver Olympics after a dominant victory in the women's 15-kilometer cross-country skiing pursuit.
Bjoergen pushed the pace much of the way, pulling away from her rivals midway through the freestyle portion of the race, and was never threatened over the last kilometers.
The Associated Press
Outta this world!
The crews of the linked space shuttle Endeavour and ISS staged their own Olympic events, including skiing, luge and figure skating.
Americans win two more medals
The United States won silver and bronze in the men's Super-G, increasing its leading medals total to 20. Germany is second with 13.
Race for gold extremely close
71.3mph - Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal was clocked skiing that fast in the Super-G.
