Team Canada slips past Switzerland in shootout

Canada narrowly escaped another disaster against Switzerland. The Canadians hung on for a 3-2 shootout win when Sidney Crosby wrested a shot past stingy Swiss goalie Jonas Hiller in Crosby's second attempt.

Canada's Nesbitt gets gold in 1,000 speedskating

Christine Nesbitt captured Canada's first speedskating gold medal of the Vancouver Games on Thursday at the Richmond Oval, winning the women's 1,000 metres. The London, Ont., native used a ferocious finish to cross in a time of one minute 16.56 seconds, just 2-100ths of a second ahead of her main World Cup rival, Annette Gerritsen of the Netherlands.

Lysacek topples Plushenko for figure skating gold

Evan Lysacek became the first American man to win figure skating gold in 22 years, showing Evgeny Plushenko a quad isn't needed to take the Olympic title in 2010.

Martin gives Swedes lesson in curling

Canadian skip Kevin Martin took Niklas Edin to school on Thursday, administering a 7-3 lesson that knocked the young Swede from the ranks of the unbeaten in the Olympic men's curling tournament.

Canadian women curlers shade Germany

Canadian curler Cheryl Bernard is getting a lot of practice in close games at the Vancouver Olympics. Bernard missed a pair of critical shots late in her round-robin match with German skip Andrea Schoepp, but rebounded by drawing near the button with her final stone to cap a 6-5 extra-end win.