Freestyle Skiing

Freestyle skier Nikki Stone nailed a pair of back somersaults in the aerials, grabbing the fourth U.S. gold of the Nagano Games. While she celebrated her triumph, teammate Eric Bergoust added another gold medal in the men’s event.

Three of the five U.S. golds - including the first, won by 22-year-old Jonny Moseley in the moguls - have gone to the freestylers, who made their Olympic debut only six years ago. Bergoust and Stone both competed in Lillehammer in 1994. She finished 13th. He wound up seventh.

Women’s ice hockey

The U.S. women’s team, with an emotional 3-1 victory over archrival Canada, captured the first Olympic hockey gold for women - a hard-fought victory that brought smiles, tears, hugs, handholding and a group rendition of the national anthem.

Gretchen Ulion and Shelley Looney gave the U.S. a 2-0 lead but the victory was in doubt until Sandra Whyte scored an empty-net goal with 8 seconds left. Goaltender Sarah Tueting recorded 21 saves.

Finland won the bronze medal by beating China 4-1.

Alpine skiing

The skiers changed venues as scheduled, but still couldn’t escape the weather. A blizzard dumped 4 feet of snow at Shiga Kogen, wiping out the men’s giant slalom and five-time medalist Alberto Tomba’s 1998 Olympic debut.

Short track speedskating

South Korea claimed its first two medals of the Games, with Kim Dong-sung winning the men’s 1,000-meter race and its relay team taking the 3,000-meter event. China was second and Canada third in the relay; Li Jiajun of China was second in the men’s race, ahead of Canada’s Eric Bedard.

The U.S. women’s 3,000-meter relay team - silver medalists in Albertville, bronze medalists at Lillehammer - failed to make the finals in Nagano, despite the efforts of Cathy Turner, who owns four previous short-track medals.

Men’s hockey

The Olympics are over for Ulf Samuelsson, whose appeal of his ejection from the Games was rejected. The New York Rangers defenseman holds a U.S. passport, which overrides his Swedish citizenship. No penalties were assessed against Sweden’s team.

The single-elimination quarterfinal matchups have the United States (1-2) against the Czech Republic (2-1), played late Tuesday night (Pacific time); the undefeated Canadians, the team to beat, against Kazakstan (0-3); Russia (3-0) against Belarus (0-3); and defending gold medalist Sweden (2-1) against Finland (1-2).

Speedskating

Another day, another world record, another Dutch gold medal - their fourth in eight races in Nagano. Gianni Romme took his second gold of the Games in the men’s 10,000 meters, slicing a stunning 15 seconds off the old world mark.

Romme’s victory capped a Dutch sweep as Bob de Jong and Rintje Ritsma took the next two spots. The Dutch speedskaters have now won 10 medals overall, the Netherlands’ best Olympic showing ever.

Biathlon

Ole Bjorndalen of Norway won the Olympic gold medal in men’s 10-kilometer biathlon with a time of 27 minutes, 16.2 seconds. His teammate, Frode Andresen, won the silver in 28:17.8, and Ville Raikkonen of Finland finished third in 28:21.7.

Men’s cross country relay

Norway’s Thomas Alsgaard stretched his left ski over the finish line in the final stride to win the 40-kilometer cross country relay by a fifth of a second and make teammate and rival Bjorn Dahlie the winningest athlete in Winter Olympic history.

Dahlie, skiing the third leg, got his seventh gold medal and 11th medal overall. His gold-medal total moved him past two other athletes and his overall total broke the record he shared with Raisa Smetanina, a cross country skier from the former Soviet Union.