March 12, 2002

2002 Winter Olympics

by Linda DeLaine

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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Notable events on this day in Russian history

1994: The European Union and Russia signed a landmark accord in Corfu, Greece, designed to stabilize the ex-Soviet power and bring it ever closer to its former rivals.

1985: Natalia Solzhenitsyn, wife of exiled Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, became a United States citizen in Rutland, Vermont.

1948: Berlin Blockade began. Joseph Stalin blocked all ground and water access, as well as cut electricity to the Western sector. Within a few days, the Berlin Airlift began. United States planes dropped up to 13,000 tons of goods per day for the next 10 month

1877: Aleksei Remizov, writer, born (died 1957)

1812: Napoleon invaded Russia. Ironically, almost three years to the day (on June 22, 1815), Napoleon abdicated after his defeat at Waterloo.

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