Tuesday's Favorites

MEN'S CURLING (games begin at noon)
GOLD: Canada
SILVER: Great Britain
BRONZE: Norway

MEN'S ALPINE COMBINED (1:00-downhill; 4:30-slalom)
GOLD; Ivica Costelic, CRO
SILVER: Bode Miller, USA
BRONZE: Aksel Lund Svindal, NOR
Defago could win another medal and Benjamin Raich, AUT could take his third career gold. American Ted Ligety is the defending champion.

WOMEN'S SNOWBOARD CROSS (1:00-qualifying; 3:15-finals)
GOLD: Lindsay Jacobellis, USA
SILVER: Maelle Ricker, CAN
BRONZE: Helene Olafsen, NOR

WOMEN'S BIATHLON PURSUIT (1:30)
GOLD: Magdalena Neuner, GER
SILVER: Helena Jonsson, SWE
BRONZE: Anastasiya Kuzmina, SVK

MEN'S ICE HOCKEY (games begin at 3:00)
GOLD: Canada
SILVER: Russia
BRONZE: Sweden

WOMEN'S LUGE (3:00)
Tatjana Hufner remains the woman to beat.

MEN'S BIATHLON PURSUIT (3:45)
GOLD: Emil Heglen Svendsen, NOR
SILVER: Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, NOR
BRONZE: Bjorn Ferry, SWE

WOMEN'S 500 METER SPEED SKATING (4:00)
GOLD: Jenny Wolf, GER
SILVER: Wang Beixing, CHN
BRONZE: Lee Sang-Hwa, KOR

WOMEN'S CURLING (games begin at 5:00)
GOLD: Canada
SILVER: China
BRONZE: Sweden

MEN'S FIGURE SKATING (7:15)
What an event this should be, the defending Olympic champion, four World Champions, seven men who have captured medals at Worlds.
GOLD: Yevgeny Plushenko, RUS
SILVER: Evan Lysacek, USA
BRONZE: Nobunari Oda, JPN
Also in contention: Stephane Lambiel, SUI; Brian Joubert, FRA; Patrick Chan, CAN; Jeremy Abbott, USA; Daisuke Takahashi, JPN; Tomas Verner, CZE; Johnny Weir, USA; Michael Breznia, CZE
This promises to be the most competitive events in figure skating history; although remember the 1994 Olympics when it was a showdown between Boitano, Petrenko and Browning and Alexei Urmanov won the Gold ahead of Elvis Stojko and Philippe Candeloro.