21.   Teemu Selanne compares the upcoming hockey season with a long, cold swim under a sheet of Olympic ice.

22.   The injury forced Kwan out of the NHK Trophy event on the Olympic ice in Nagano, but she was given a waiver into the series final.

23.   The marks were very good for Olympic champion ice dancers Oksana Gritschuk and Evgeny Platov of Russia.

24.   The Nations Cup was just the second in the series, but the title winners here have already staked out their patch of Olympic ice.

25.   The Russians almost always win Olympic ice dancing.

26.   They won all three disciplines to become the first couple to repeat as Olympic ice dance champions.

27.   Canadians accustomed to smaller NHL rinks found themselves out of position on wider Olympic ice and victimized by long passes to opposing blue lines not allowed in the NHL.

28.   Deal-making among judges is inbred in the Olympics, two-time Olympic ice dance medallist Alexander Zhulin of Russia claimed on Thursday.

29.   Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat won the first ever Olympic ice dance title for France late Monday as a doping case clouded the Winter Games.

30.   Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat of France danced their way around the recent voting scandal to claim the Olympic ice dance gold here on Monday.