Fara aur olimpic pe teren propriu inaintea inceperii JO de iarna de la Vacouver, Canada conduce in clasamentul pe medalii, cu doua zile inainte de incheierea competitiei. Tara gazda a adunat 10 medalii de aur, dupa ce vineri Charles Hamelin si stafeta masculina de 5.000m la pista scurta au cucerit cea mai pretioasa medalie.

Rezultate JO de iarna Vancouver, 26.02.2010:

Pista scurta - 500m masculin:

1. Charles Hamelin (Canada) 40.770

2. Si-Bak Sung (Coreea) 40.821

3. Francois-Louis Tremblay 41.326

Pista scurta - 1.000m feminin:

1. Meng Wang (China) 1:29.213

2. Katherine Reutter (SUA) 1:29.324

3. Seung-Hi Park (Coreea) 1:29.379

Pista scurta - 5.000m, stafeta masculina:

1. Canada (Charles Hamelin, Francois Hamelin, Olivier Jean, Francois-Louis Tremblay) 6:43.610

2. Coreea (Yoon-Gy Kwak, Ho-Suk Lee, Jung-Su Lee, Si-Bak Sung) 6:43.845

3. SUA (J.R. Celski, Travis Jayner, Jordan Malone, Apolo Anton Ohno) 6:44.498

Biatlon - 4x7.5km stafeta masculina:

1. Norvegia (Halvard Hanevold, Emil Hegle Svendsen, Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, Tarjei Boe) 1:21:38.1

2. Austria (Simon Eder, Daniel Mesotitsch, Dominik Landertinger, Christoph Sumann) 1:22:16.7

3. Rusia (Ivan Tcherezov, Anton Shipulin, Maxim Tchoudov, Evgeny Ustyugov) 1:22:16.9

Schi alpin - slalom feminin:

1. Maria Riesch (Germania) 1:42.89

2. Marlies Schild (Austria) +0.43

3. Sarka Zahrobska (Cehia) +1:01

Snowboard - slalom urias paralel, feminin:

1. Nicolien Sauerbreij (Olanda)

2. Ekaterina Ilyukhina (Rusia)

3. Marion Kreiner (Austria)

Curling feminin:

Suedia (Anette Norberg, Eva Lund, Cathrine Lindahl, Anna Le Moine, Kajsa Bergstroem) a invins Canada (Cheryl Bernard, Susan O'Connor, Carolyn Darbyshire, Cori Bartel, Kristie Moore) cu 7-6 in finala mare si a obtinut medalia de aur olimpica.

China (Bingyu Wang, Yin Liu, Qingshuang Yue, Yan Zhou, Jinli Liu) a castigat medalia de bronz, dupa ce a invins Elvetia (Mirjam Ott, Carmen Schaefer, Carmen Kueng, Janine Greiner, Irene Schori) cu 12-6.

Bob - 4 persoane, masculin - clasament provizoriu dupa 2 manse:

1. SUA (Steven Holcomb, Steve Mesler, Curtis Tomasevicz, Justin Olsen) 1:41.75

2. Canada (Lyndon Rush, David Bissett, Lascelles Brown, Chris Le Bihan) +0.40

3. Germania (Andre Lange, Kevin Kuske, Alexander Roediger, Martin Putze) +0.44

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15. Romania (Nicolae Istrate, Ioan Danut Dovalciuc, Ionut Andrei, Florin Cezar Craciun) +2.30

Clasament medalii:

1. Canada - 10 aur, 7 argint, 4 bronz - total 21

2. Germania - 9 aur, 11 argint, 7 bronz - total 27

3. SUA - 8 aur, 13 argint, 13 bronz - total 34

4. Norvegia - 8 aur, 6 argint, 6 bronz - total 20

5. Coreea - 6 aur, 6 argint, 2 bronz - total 14

6. Elvetia - 6 aur, 2 bronz - total 8

7. China - 5 aur, 2 argint, 4 bronz - total 11

8. Suedia - 5 aur, 2 argint, 2 bronz - total 9

9. Austria - 4 aur, 5 argint, 6 bronz - total 15

10. Olanda - 4 aur, 1 argint, 2 bronz - total 7