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With great difficulty, after the second series of shootouts, the Russian national hockey team beat the Swedes and reached the final of the Olympic tournament, where they will play on Sunday with the Finns. Regular time and overtime ended with the score 1:1.
In the final discipline in figure skating, the Chinese Wenjin Sui and Cong Han lead by a tiny 0.16 ahead of Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov.
Another Russian couple who have already become Beijing Olympic champions in the team competition, Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Gallyamov, scored 82.76. The third duo representing Russia, Aleksandra Boikova and Dmitry Kozlovsky, are in fourth place with 78.59 points.
And now about all the other events of the last half-day of the Olympiad.
Freestyle. Ski halfpipe. Women
1. Gu Ailing (China), 2. Cassie Sharp, 3. Rachel Carker (both Canada).
Biathlon. Mass start, 12.5 km. Women
1. Justine Brezaz-Bouchet (France), 2. Tiril Eckhoff, 3. Marte Ulsbu-Røiseland (both Norway).
Freestyle. Ski cross. Men
1. Ryan Regez, 2. Alex Fiva, 3. Sergey Ridzik.
Skating. 1000 m Men
1. Thomas Krol (Netherlands), 2. Laurent Dubreuil (Canada), 3. Howard Lorenzen (Norway). Our Viktor Mushtakov is the eighth, multiple world champion Pavel Kulizhnikov is only the 11th.
Biathlon. Mass start, 15 km. Men
1. Johannes Be (Norway), 2. Martin Ponsiluoma (Sweden), 3. Vetle Shostad Christiansen (Norway).
Curling. Men. Match for 3rd place.
Canada – USA – 8:5.
Source: Rosbalt
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