31.   Alexei Yagudin collected the gold with a stellar performance while world champion Evgeni Plushenko took the silver.

32.   American Sondra Van Ert took the silver ahead of French world champion Karine Ruby.

33.   American diver Troy Dumais, competing in his first world championship, took the silver and German Holger Schlepps the bronze.

34.   Andrea Henkel of Germany won the gold in her first Winter games, and Liv Grete Poiree of Norway took the silver at the Soldier Hollow course.

35.   At one point, Hackl appeared to be slipping back into the bronze medal position but quickened in the late stages to take the silver.

36.   Australia took the silver at Sydney, the third-ranked Brazilians won bronze while the French are rated fifth-best in the world.

37.   Blyth Tait won the individual three-day event, and teammate Sally Clark took the silver.

38.   Bruny Surin, who took the silver, was born in Haiti.

39.   China took the silver and Canada got the bronze, the same order as in the Nagano Games four years ago.

40.   Christian Reich and Steve Anderhub of Switzerland took the silver and Martin Annen and Beat Hefti of Switzerland won the bronze.