Winter Olympics open tonight

Vonn course: Lindsey Vonn skied for the first time since badly bruising her right shin last week, and said the injury was “finally progressing a bit.” Vonn is an overwhelming favorite to win the downhill and super-G – and perhaps other medals.

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Whistler weather: First came fears of not enough snow at Cypress Mountain, the freestyle and snowboarding venue. That area got 4 inches of snow Wednesday, but rain and fog Thursday hampered moguls training. The fog and rain on the Olympic downhill course in Whistler also forced a halt to the women’s training session after American Stacey Cook slammed into the safety netting. Temperatures there hovered above freezing – making the course soft.

Raise the roof: Today’s opening ceremony will be held indoors for the first time, with lots of guessing on which Canadian will light the cauldron inside the 60,600-seat domed BC Place arena.

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First doping case: Russian hockey player Svetlana Terenteva has been reprimanded for the first doping violation of the Vancouver Olympics, although she remains eligible to compete. The IOC said she tested positive for a stimulant prohibited in competition but not out of competition. She admitted using a prescription drug for a cold last month but stopped using it Feb. 3, a day before Olympic drug-testing began.

Basketball history on display at GU

Basketball: For the first time, Gonzaga University archives and Gonzaga athletics have teamed up to offer the public a free exhibition titled “Hoop It Up: Gonzaga’s Basketball Heritage.”

The exhibition, which includes items dating from 1906 to the present, is on display in the Cowles Rare Book Reading Room in Gonzaga’s Foley Center Library and will remain through April 30.

More than 150 items depicting the history of men’s and women’s basketball at Gonzaga are on display. The exhibition includes rare photographs, Josh Heytvelt’s size 18 basketball shoe, trophies, uniforms, news clippings, tickets, signed basketballs, even the championship surfboard from the 2009 Maui Invitational, among other rarely seen Gonzaga athletics memorabilia.

The exhibition viewing hours are 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. The exhibition is open on Saturdays from 1 to 4 p.m.