February 2006 in Sports - 14 February 2006 (Tuesday)

14 February 2006 (Tuesday)

• Cricket: 2005–06 VB Series
  • Australia defeat Sri Lanka by 9 wickets at Brisbane Cricket Ground after 45.3 overs.
    • Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat. After being 2–28, Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene put on a 100 run partnership. Jayawardene went on to score 86 of 91 balls. Russel Arnold made 76 off 71. Sri Lanka's final score was 266–9 off 50 overs. In Australia's innings, openers Adam Gilchrist and Simon Katich scored centuries to win the game by 9 wickets. Captain Ricky Ponting was not out with Katich on 28. Australia came from behind in the finals to win 2–1. Andrew Symonds was named man of the series, and Adam Gilchrist man of the match.
• XX Winter Olympic Games, Turin, day four:
  • Biathlon, men's 10-kilometre sprint :
    • Sven Fischer won Germany's second gold medal in biathlon with a perfect day on the shooting range and skiing the 10 kilometres in 26 minutes, 11.6 seconds. As in the men's individual, Norwegians take the two other medals. (CBC.ca)
  • Cross country, men's team sprint, classical style:
    • Thobias Fredriksson and Björn Lind from Sweden wins the gold medal at the men's team sprint, classical style, bringing in Sweden's first medal of the 2006 Winter Olympics. Minutes earlier, Lina Andersson and Anna Dahlberg, also from Sweden, won the women's gold medal in the same event. (BBC Sport)
  • Speed skating, women's 500 metres:
    • 34-year-old Russian Svetlana Zhurova, who left speed skating in 2003 to become a mother, becomes the oldest woman to win a speed skating gold medal by clocking times of 38.23 and 38.34. In the last pair of the second round, she beat Chinese Wang Manli, runner-up in the first round with 38.31, by 0.13 seconds to secure the gold medal. (CBC.ca)
  • Alpine skiing, men's combined:
    • Unheralded 21-year-old Ted Ligety of the USA wins gold by virtue of two nearly-flawless slalom runs. The heavy favorite, Ligety's countryman Bode Miller, was disqualified for straddling a gate in his first slalom run after leading by two full seconds following the downhill segment. Ivica Kostelić of Croatia takes silver, while bronze goes to Rainer Schönfelder of Austria. (CBC.ca)
  • Ice hockey women's group stage
    • Pool "A"
      • Italy 1–5 Russia: After over 128 minutes, the Italians scored their first goal in the Olympics, thanks to Sabina Floran on a two-man advantage.
      • Canada 8–1 Sweden: Gillian Apps scored two goals in the rout of the Swedes.
    • Pool "B"
      • Switzerland 1–2 Germany
      • USA 7–3 Finland: The USA scored six straight times between the late second period and the entire third period to put this game away.
  • SEMIFINALS (Friday February 17): Finland vs. Canada, USA vs. Sweden.