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Thursday, February 23, 2006 10:11 AM EST

ALPINE SKIING
Women

Slalom

Anja Paerson finally won her Olympic gold medal and beat her longtime rival in the process with a pair of dominant runs through floodlit fog in the women's slalom.

Janica Kostelic of Croatia, whose six medals in two Olympics are the most by any women's Alpine skier, failed to win a medal for the first time in her last seven events.

SPEEDSKATING

Women

1,500 Meters

Cindy Klassen added a gold medal to the bronze and two silvers she's already earned at the Olympics.

CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING

Women

Sprint

Chandra Crawford pulled off an upset in the women's 1.1km sprint, skating across the finish for Canada's first cross-country gold medal of the Turin Games.

Men

Sprint

Bjoern Lind of Sweden easily skied to an Olympic gold medal in the men's 1.3km cross-country sprint race, taking advantage of rival Tor Arne Hetland's fall in the semifinals.

CURLING

Men

Semifinals

Canada 11, United States 5

Finland 4, Great Britain 3

Pete Fenson couldn't lead the United States to the Olympic gold medal game, losing to Canada in the curling semifinals.

Women

Semifinals

Switzerland 7, Canada 5

Sweden 5, Norway 4

FREESTYLE SKIING

Women

Aerials

Evelyne Leu of Switzerland beat her Chinese rival to win the gold medal in Olympic aerials, adding the last missing piece to an already stellar career.

SNOWBOARD

Men

Parallel Giant Slalom

It was only a matter of which Schoch would take the title this time, and defending Olympic champion Philipp Schoch pulled it out, defeating older brother Simon.

SHORT TRACK

Women

3,000-Meter Relay

The team of Byun Chun-sa, Choi Eun-kyung, Jeon Da-hye and Jin Sun-yu won South Koreas fourth short track gold.

BIATHLON

Women

4x6K relay

Russia upset two-time defending Olympic champion Germany in the women's 4x6km biathlon relay Thursday, and they did it without banished star Olga Pyleva. Anna Bogaliy started in place of Pyleva, the only athlete caught so far in the tightest drug net in Winter Olympics history. Bogaliy gave her team a big lead at the first exchange and the Russians never trailed.

- Wire reports

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