2010 Winter Olympics: Ohno ties USA record with 6th Olympic medal

WHISTLER, British Columbia — Apolo Anton Ohno tied Bonnie Blair for the most medals won by an American athlete in Winter Olympics competitions with a silver medal in the men's short track 1,500 meter race Saturday night.

He pulled into second place when two Korean skaters fell in the last turn. He earned a time of 2:17.976, just behind Korea's gold medalist Lee Jung-Su, who crossed the line in 2:17.611

U.S. skater J.R. Celski earned a bronze medal in the race. Celski came back from a horrific injury in October and has been likened to Ohno for his style and promise.

The silver medal was Ohno's sixth career medal, and he surpasses Eric Heiden for the most winter medals won by an American man. He owns two gold, two silver and two bronze medals.

ALPINE SKIING: Volunteers are working feverishly to fix what the warm weather and rain have done to the alpine course at Creekside Whistler.

"They've got a huge crew of unbelievable volunteers working 24 hours a day, every single one of them enjoying the process of trying to put on the best Games possible," said U.S. head men's alpine coach Sasha Rearick.

He said the weather had provided some "adversity" to both skiers and course workers, but everyone was optimistic and eager to get competition under way today.

One of the difficulties is that they're dealing with three different climate issues. The top of the hill was getting heavy snow, the middle section of the course was being pounded with a mixture of rain and snow and the bottom was being saturated by near-constant rain.

"We've been staying off the bottom of the hill because it's slush right now," said Rearick. Instead of training Saturday, skiers enjoyed a rare day off.

The women's team was scheduled for training today at 11 a.m., while the men were scheduled for downhill competition Monday at 10:30 a.m.

The women's downhill medal event was scheduled for Wednesday at 11 a.m. and the Super Combined was scheduled for Thursday at 10 a.m. with the finals at 1 p.m.

MEN'S LUGE: Tony Benshoof is currently in seventh place after two complete rounds of Luge competition. Germany's Felix Loch and David Moeller, are first and second respectively. Defending World Champion Armin Zoeggeler is fourth. Benshoof's U.S. teammate Chris Mazdzer is in 13th place with two runs to go on Sunday night at the Whistler Olympic Park.

WOMEN'S SPEEDSKATING: Both U.S. women advanced to the semi-finals of the women's 500 meters at Pacific Coliseum Saturday.