Sochi Winter Olympics news feed: Day 6
Live updates from the sixth day of 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi
23:08. German ski jumper Carina Vogt wins Olympic gold.
23:04. Swiss snowboarder Iourie Podladtchikov won the gold Olympic medal in men’s halfpipe, showing the best score of 94.75 in the second run.
22:22. Russian figure skating pair Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov leads after short program.
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22:09. Russian women’s curling team has lost 5:7 to Chinese squad in third match at Sochi Olympics.
21:53. German luger Natalie Geisenberger wins gold medal at the Sochi Olympics.
21:16. Russian female hockey team wins 2:1 in match against Japan.
20:57. Russia’s Tatiana Ivanova ranks sixth after three runs in luge competition at Sochi Olympics. The best result showed German Natalie Geisenberger.
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19:44. Russian speed skater Fatkulina wins silver in 500 m race.
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19:31. Belorussian biathlete Darya Domracheva wins women's 10 km pursuit.
17:47 Norway's Ola Vigen Hattestad wins men's sprint free.
17:40 Norway's skier Maiken Caspersen Falla wins women's sprint free.
Norway's skier Maiken Caspersen Falla (C) ITAR-TASS/EPA/ARMANDO BABANI
17:32 Three Russian skiers qualified for men's sprint free semi-finals.
Ola Vigen Hattestad of Norway during the quarter-final of the men's sprint free competition(C) ITAR-TASS/EPA/ARMANDO BABANI
17:18 The Canadian ice hockey team will definitely make its way to the final of the 2014 Winter Games in Russia’s Sochi, but it would be better not to face the Russian squad in the decisive Olympic match, Canada’s Patrick Marleau said on Tuesday.
17:06 Russian men’s curling team lost 8-9 to Norway’s squad in the 3rd Robin Round session at 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
Russian men's curling team (С) EPA/TATYANA ZENKOVICH
16:52 Swedish women’s hockey team defeated German squad 4-0 in the second Group B match at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.
Swedish women's hockey team celebrates victory (C) EPA/ANATOLY MALTSEV
16:39 Russian skiers failed to qualify for women’s sprint free semi-finals.
Russian skier Yevgenya Shapovalova (C) ITAR-TASS/EPA/FILIP SINGER
15:54 Sochi International Airport has serviced 47,420 departing and arriving passengers and around 1,100 flights in the period from February 6 to February 9
15:47 Players of the Russian national ice hockey team are in good shape before the start of their Olympic marathon for medals at the 2014 Winter Games in Russia’s Sochi, the head coach of the team said on Tuesday.
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15:29 Russian skiers Sergey Ustiugov, Alexey Petukhov, Nikita Kriukov and Anton Gafarov qualified for men’s sprint free quarterfinals at the Winter Olympics in the southern Russian city of Sochi on Tuesday.
Bernhard Tritscher of Austria during the qualification of the Men's Sprint Free competition (C) ITAR-TASS/EPA/ARMANDO BABANI
15:07 President of the International Skating Union (ISU) Ottavio Cinquanta highly appreciated the organization of a team figure skating event and Russia's figure skating star Yevgeny Plushenko.
President of the International Skating Union Ottavio Cinquanta (C) EPA/ITAR-TASS
14:50 Russian skier Anastasia Dotsenko has qualified for the Olympics sprint race.
14:17 Canada’s freestyle skier Dara Howell wins gold in women's slopestyle.
Canadian freestyle skier Dara Howell (C) EPA/JENS BUETTNER
14:12 Russian president and prime minister congratulated freestyle skier Alexander Smyshlyaev with his bronze medal victory in men’s moguls at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia’s resort city of Sochi.
13:44 Russian Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko told reporters that he was satisfied with the results of Russian athletes in the first days of the Winter Olympics in the southern Russian city of Sochi.
13:30 Troops stationed in the Krasnodar, Stavropol regions and the Republic of Adygea in the south of Russia have been transferred to a different schedule of service to enable servicemen to watch TV broadcasts from the Olympic Games.
13:02 Inventive acrobats have dived into a swimming pool in Siberia's Novosibirsk - to "skate" on the bottom in support of Russia's Winter Olympics figure skating team in Sochi.
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12:37 Russian freestyler Anna Mirtova failed to qualify in ski-slopestyle finals among 12 best freestylers after the ski-slopestyle qualification round at the Winter Olympics on Tuesday.
Canadian freestylers Dara Howell advanced to the finals with the best results (C) ITAR-TASS/EPA/SERGEY ILNITSKY
11:48 Russia's women's curling team wins in second Olympic match against US squad.
11:37 Russian freestyle skier Anna Mirtova has become 19th after first run in ladies’ ski-slopestyle qualification. Ski-slopestyle finals will be held later on Tuesday.
Katie Summerhayes of Great Britain competes in the women's Freestyle Skiing Slopestyle qualification (C) ITAR-TASS/EPA/SERGEY ILNITSKY
11:11 Russian mogul skier Alexander Smyshlyaev, who won the bronze medal in mogul skiing at the Winter Olympics in the southern Russian city of Sochi, was prepared to fight for Olympic medals technically and psychologically, head coach of Russian freestyle team Alexei Pokashnikov told reporters on Tuesday.
Russian freestyle skier Alexander Smyshlyaev (C) ITAR-TASS/EPA/JENS BUETTNER
10:29 The fifth training session for the ladies’ alpine skiing downhill event during the Sochi Olympic Games at the Rosa Khutor mountain resort has been cancelled over unfavorable weather.
10:15 Check out some interesting facts about the XXII Winter Sochi Olympics in Sochi
9:35 Russian athletes are set to win medals in cross-country individual freestyle sprint, biathlon, speed skating and luge on Tuesday.
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9:11 Eight sets of medals are at stake on Tuesday, February 11, at the XXII Winter Olympic Games at the Russian Black Sea resort city of Sochi.
6:00 Bronze medal at the Olympic Games is a doubtless success for the whole Russian mogul, freestyle skier Alexander Smyshlyaev said in an interview with Itar-Tass.
Russian freestyle skier Alexander Smyshlyaev (C) ITAR-TASS/EPA/JENS BUETTNER
5:18 Canadian ice hockey player PK Subban believes that the organizers of the 22 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi deserve credit for the work they have done.
4:31 Opening ceremony of the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi was the best one throughout the history of Winter Olympics, Hellenic Olympic Committee official spokesman Tassos Papachristou told Itar-Tass.
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