Alpine Skiing: Due to bad weather, the women's Super-G has been
rescheduled until tomorrow.
Bobsled: The Hungarian team of
Márton Gyulai, 26, and
Bertalan Pintér, 32, finished 29th in the
men's two-man bobsled. Those not in the top 20 apparently did not make a fourth run; their combined time of 2:53.01 was based on three runs -- at that point they were 2.39 seconds back.
Cross-country Skiing: In the
men's 4×10-kilometre relay, the
Austrian team of
Roland Diethart, 32,
Johannes Eder, 26,
Jürgen Pinter, 26, and
Martin Tauber, 29, was lapped during the fourth leg, at which point their race was over; they placed 16th as a result.
Now there's a bit of news behind this last-place finish. The Austrian skiers claim that their race was "ruined" because they were subject to
a raid the night before by Italian police looking for evidence of doping, along with late-night doping tests. The raid occurred because of a tip that Walter Mayer was in Torino with the Austrian athletes. Mayer had been banned by the
IOC for ten years for being suspected of conducting blood transfusions at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games after equipment was found in a chalet. Despite the controversy surrounding Mayer, however, he's still head of Austria's cross-country skiing and biathlon program. If the Austrians test positive for anything, they will be stripped of their
DFL according to precedent.
Speed Skating: 25-year-old Romanian skater
Daniela Oltean finished 35th in the
women's 1,000-metre with a time of 1:21.70. That was 5.65 seconds behind the gold medallist. There was one
DNF.
Standings to date: Austria enters the standings near the back, Hungary moves into eighth place, and, due to a smaller contingent than South Korea's, Romania regains the lead.
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