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Aussie skiers advance

Aussie skiers advance

02/23/2010 08:45:14 PM

Australian pair Jenny Owens and Katya Crema have both progressed from the qualification stage of the 2010 Winter Olympics ladies' freestyle skiing event at Cypress Mountain in Vancouver on Tuesday morning (local time).

Owens qualified 15th fastest with a time of one minute 19.80 seconds while Crema was two spots further back in 17th after clocking 1:20.19.

New Zealand's Michelle Greig also made it through with the 30th fastest time of 1:22.52.

Sweden's Anna Holmlund (1:17.15) was the quickest competitor, Canadian Ashleigh McIvor (1:17.17) was second and Switzerland's Fanny Smith (1:17.38) rounded out the top three.

The next stage of the competition will take place at 8am on Wednesday morning (AEDT).

Meanwhile, Bode Miller's chance to make Olympic history by becoming the first man to win four alpine skiing medals at the same Games looked to have gone when he skied out of the first run of the giant-slalom.

Miller had already bagged three medals in Whistler after taking gold in the super combined competition as well as silver in the super-G and bronze in the blue riband downhill.

But Miller slipped and slid off course midway through his run on Tuesday (local time).

Miller will get a final chance to win his fourth medal when he competes in the slalom on Saturday but it is his less-favoured event.

Switzerland's Carlo Janka led the field after the first run in a time of 1:17.27, 0.02 seconds ahead of Austria's Romed Baumann in silver medal position and super-G gold medallist Aksel Svindal a further 0.14 seconds behind.

The second run was scheduled for 8am on Wednesday morning (AEDT).

As the women's curling round robin competition came towards its close, Switzerland and China chalked up wins to join host Canada and Sweden in the semi-finals.

Switzerland beat Germany 4-2 and China edged out the USA 6-5.

Table-topper Canada beat Great Britain 6-5 on the extra end and Sweden beat Japan 10-6.

And Finland led from the USA and Austria after the competition round of the Nordic Combined event with the relay to follow later in the day.

 
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