March 12, 2002

2002 Winter Olympics

Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze win GOLD!
Photo by Sergey Grachev for, St. Petersburg Times

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pairs Figure Skating: Berezhnaya, Sikharulidze Men's Figure Skating: Alexei Yagudin Biathlon Women's 10 km: Olga Pyleva Women's 5 km Free Pursuit: Olga Danilova 1.5 cross-country: Julija Tchepalova	Women's 15 km Free Mass Start: Larissa Lazutina Women's 10 km Classical: Olga Danilova Men's Figure Skating: Evgeni PLushenko Women's 5 km: Larissa Lazutina Ice Dancing Irina Lobacheva, Illia Averbukh Ladies's Figure Skating Irina Slutskaya Men's 50 km Classical Mikhail Ivanov	Biathlon Men's 20 km Individual: Victor Maigourov Women's 10 km Classical: Julija Tchepalova Women's 4x7.5 km Olga Pyleva, Galina Koukleva Svetlana Ishmouratova Albina Akhatova Men's Ice Hockey

In Men's Ice Hockey, Russia meets the US in the semifinals on Friday, February 22, 4:15 pm MST.

Olympic News

Russia slaps away
Belarus for bronze

Putin Calls Games
'Flop'; Bias Protest
Denied

ISU rejects Russian
skating protest

First 2002 Hockey
Gold Arrives 10
Years Late

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1990: Soviet Union officially established diplomatic relations with South Korea and upgraded relations with Israel, just short of full diplomatic relations.

1986: United States released Soviet physicist Gennady Zakharov one day after the Soviet Union released journalist Nicholas Daniloff. Both were accused of espionage.

1971: The British Government reveals that Oleg Lyalin defected from the Soviet Union and has exposed dozens of Russians alleged to be spying in the UK.

1963: Soviet Union declared itself on the side of India in the dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir.

1949: First powered flight of the 346-2 rocketplane

1933: Ilya Kabakov, painter, born

1917: Yuri Lyubimov, director, born

1808: Treaty of Erfurt renewed Russia's strained alliance with Napoleonic France

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