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— Russia’s Evgeni Plushenko’s personal best of 90.66 points gave him a big lead over American Johnny Weir (80.00) after the Olympic men’s figure skating short program. The long program is Thursday.
— The U.S. men’s curling team (2-1) won 10-4 against New Zealand and faces weaker teams from Italy and Germany next.
— The U.S. women’s curling team, silver medalists at the World Championships, lost its third straight match, 6-5, to Japan.
— Just like the U.S. men, the U.S. women fell one place short of getting their first ever luge singles medal. Courtney Zablocki was fourth.
— A few days after predicting he was on the cusp of winning the first U.S. medal in the biathlon, Jay Hakkinen finished 80th.
