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Salt Lake City
GER 12 16 7 35
USA 10 13 11 34
NOR 11 7 6 24
CAN 6 3 8 17
RUS 6 6 4 16
AUT 2 4 10 16
ITA 4 4 4 12
FRA 4 5 2 11
SUI 3 2 6 11
NED 3 5 0 8

Quick silver
All that glitters is not gold — and for the United States Olympic Team, silver was twice as nice Saturday. Team USA struck silver twice, winning a pair of second-place medals in Saturday events of the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Games.
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Taiwan flags in S.L. ruffle a few feelings
The residents of a downtown condominium complex didn't intend to spark Olympic controversy when they hung the flags of more than 90 nations from their balconies. To them, it was just another way to welcome the world.
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1st medals bash of '02 heats up downtown
Utah threw a party Saturday night. A big one. And it was just the first of 16. Some 20,000 revelers heated up a cold night at Saturday's inaugural celebration at the Olympic Medals Plaza.
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We're not in Utah anymore
We're not in Utah anymore. Main Street Salt Lake City has turned into New York, complete with ticket hawkers, tourist traps, coffee stands and foreign accents.
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Games' flame heats up mayor's party
At the last minute, Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson decided to toss the salad that is Salt Lake City — and at first the flavors didn't quite blend.
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Russians are nearly flawless in taking the early pairs lead
From the opening minutes of Saturday's Olympic pairs figure skating competition, two things became clear: Spectators needed to allow extra time to get through the security checks, and the judges weren't giving away any free points.
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Utah gives media easy shots
As one British newspaper headlined recently: More fun than a trip to Salt Lake City? Your last Tupperware party. Well, we wanted the world to notice us, didn't we?
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U.N.'s Annan Meets With Pres. Hinckley
The Secretary General of the United Nations paid a visit to the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. News Specialist Carole Mikita reports.
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Long-track silver: Parra, then Dutchman, set new records
With four laps to go, Derek Parra could hear the crowd chanting, "USA! USA!"
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Freestyle skier gives up goodies, tastes gold
Norway's Kari Traa might have given up chocolate and butter, but now she has an Olympic gold medal instead.
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Cross-country skiing: Wild West results
On a course that whips around a Wild West replica complete with American Indian tepees and horse-drawn sleighs, a young American surprised his own team Saturday with the best men's U.S. Olympic cross country finish in a decade.
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Slovakian team misses its NHL players in loss to Germany; Belarus and Latvia win
Going in, Slovakia's men's hockey team knew it would disadvantaged. Now that it may be going out much sooner than anticipated, it's not at all happy with just how handicapped it is.
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Delivering the goods
For years they have trained, pushing themselves to exhaustion as they toiled, pursuing perfection in each painstaking detail.
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Restaurants gearing up, too
Most of the Salt Lake County restaurants specializing in nearly two dozen international cuisines said they were not doing anything exceptional to prepare for the Olympic Winter Games besides stocking up their freezers and pantries.
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Scalpers striking gold in S.L.
Salt Lake's Olympic organizers thought they had the perfect solution to a problem they knew would accompany the 2002 Winter Games — ticket scalping.
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Boutiette's Olympic career likely ends on day protege wins silver

Joyful Bahrke races to a silver — first 2002 medal for U.S.

Germany's Hackl set to make luge history

Food for the Games

Drivers avoiding gridlock — so far

Sports can help promote peace, U.N. official says

An Olympic choice

S.L. becomes party central

Olympians awed by opening ceremonies

Olympian E. Neumann dies

Schools vie in food drive

Some Utahns fleeing Oly revelry

Post office opens in S.L. plaza

Games to leave (post)marks

Dream of gold fades, but teen shines anyway

Avenues-Capitol Hill residents open dinner tables to visitors

Welcome to Utah: Hope ya like it — and us

Quick thinking turns Oly badge into gift from sheriff to Bush

Leno's 'Olympic Tonight Show' airing from Burbank? He should have come to S.L.

Long waits for media at venues is a worry

Protesters deride rodeo spectators

Pole favored to win K90

Ogden athlete is new man on bobsled team

Face-off fodder: Men's hockey — preliminary round

Queen of U.S. halfpipe no stranger to bruises

U.S. halfpipers face a strong challenge

Klug: no excuses

U.S. curling squads are feeling optimistic

U.S., Canada rule women's hockey

Olympic sound—off question

Osmonds will host KBYU Oly updates

Ankle bracelet notes some biathlete times

Saturday's medalists

Nordic combined results

Ski jumping: K90 individual results

Men's downhill skiing results

Snowboarding: Women's halfpipe results

Speedskating: women's 3000 meters results

Al Roker's Monday morning weather

Luge men's single results after two runs

February 10, 2002




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