Canada's Hamelins beaten in short-track final

Brothers Charles and Francois Hamelin of Sainte-Julie, Que., were shut out of the medals in the 1,000-metre short-track speedskating final at Pacific Coliseum on Saturday night.

Dutch speedskater Tuitert stuns Davis for gold

Veteran speedskater Mark Tuitert of the Netherlands was an upset winner over Shani Davis in the men's 1,500 at the Richmond Oval on Saturday with former world-record holder Denny Morrison of Canada again suffering disappointment at the Vancouver Games.

Fischbacher upsets Vonn in super-G

Andrea Fischbacher of Austria won the Olympic women's super-giant slalom on Saturday, knocking favourite Lindsey Vonn from the top of the podium and denying the U.S. star a sweep of the speed events at the Vancouver Games.

Canada's Rush crashes on 2nd run

Canada's best hope for an Olympic medal in the two-man bobsleigh competition crashed in the second run Saturday night at the Whistler Sliding Centre. The Canada-1 sled of Lyndon Rush and Lascelles Brown, third after the first run, set a torrid pace on their second run. But too much speed coming out of turn 13 forced the sled to flip over. They finished the run — upside down — but their time of 54.70 seconds, for a two-run total of one minute 46.37 seconds, took them out of the medal hunt.

Funeral held in Georgia for Olympic luger

A nation that had hoped to watch one of its most promising young athletes compete in the Olympics gathered instead Saturday to mourn him, more than a week after the luger was thrown to his death in a practice run at the Vancouver Games. Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, died after slamming into a pole on the luge course hours before the opening ceremony. He lost control of his sled, shot off course and hit the pole at nearly 145 km/h.