BEIJING (AP) The Finns are finally flying home with Olympic hockey gold. Finland knocked off the favored Russians 2-1 Sunday to win the tournament without NHL players at the Beijing Games, capturing an Olympic gold medal for the first time in the nation’s history.
Finland knocked off the favoured Russians 2-1 Sunday to win the tournament without NHL players at the Beijing Games, capturing an Olympic gold medal for the first time in the nation's history.
<p>New Zealand's Nico Porteous goes for gold in the men's freeski halfpipe, winning his second gold of these Games.</p><p></p><p>The Americans Wise and Ferreira round out the silver and bronze medals respectively.</p><p></p><p>Elsewhere, due to wind gusts at nearly 40 mph (65 kph), the Alpine mixed team parallel event has been postponed with plans to resume at 9 a.m. local time Sunday in Beijing.</p><p></p><p>Mikaela Shiffrin has had a frustrating time at the Olympics thus far, but the gold-medalist will have to wait for conditions to stabilize before seeing her final shot at a medal in the mixed team parallel slalom competition. Shiffrin, who has two individual golds and a silver from the past two Winter Olympics, had three "did not finishes" and no medals in her five individual events.</p><p></p><p>As for the two-woman bobsled, Elana Meyers Taylor
<p>New Zealand's Nico Porteous goes for gold in the men's freeski halfpipe, winning his second gold of these Games.</p><p></p><p>The Americans Wise and Ferreira round out the silver and bronze medals respectively.</p><p></p><p>Elsewhere, due to wind gusts at nearly 40 mph (65 kph), the Alpine mixed team parallel event has been postponed with plans to resume at 9 a.m. local time Sunday in Beijing.</p><p></p><p>Mikaela Shiffrin has had a frustrating time at the Olympics thus far, but the gold-medalist will have to wait for conditions to stabilize before seeing her final shot at a medal in the mixed team parallel slalom competition. Shiffrin, who has two individual golds and a silver from the past two Winter Olympics, had three "did not finishes" and no medals in her five individual events.</p><p></p><p>As for the two-woman bobsled, Elana Meyers Taylor