Canada set up Russia clash
Canada will take on Russia in the quarter-finals of the Olympic ice hockey competition after thrashing Germany 8-2 in the play-off.
Last Updated: 24/02/10 6:47pm
Canada will take on Russia in the quarter-finals of the Olympic ice hockey competition after thrashing Germany 8-2 in the play-off.
Joe Thornton set the hosts on course for the last eight as they defeated the Germans for a 12th successive time.
The Canadians stepped up a gear in the second period, goals coming from defenceman Shea Weber and Jarome Iginla twice, his first on a power play.
The Germans got on the board when Marcel Goc beat a prone Luongo with a wrap-around shot from behind the goal line with less than four minutes of the second period to go.
Sidney Crosby scored 70 seconds into the final period as the Canadians took a 5-1 lead. It was 6-1, five and a half minutes later as Mike Richards blasted past Greiss.
Canada captain Scott Niedermayer scored his team's seventh goal, shooting between the legs of Greiss and Rick Nash swept in from the right and slashed the puck past Greiss for goal number eight.
Switzerland booked their place in the last eight and a clash with USA after beating Belarus 3-2.
Figure skating's undoubted queen Korean Kim Yu-Na, a hot favourite for Olympic gold, underlined why as she dazzled the judges with her short programme.
Kim scored 78.50 to lead from Japan's Mao Asada (73.78) while Canadian Joannie Rochette was third after bravely opted to compete despite the sudden death of her mother Therese from a heart attack.
Rochette fought back the tears as she took her starting pose and then produced a moving performance that left her lying third with a score of 71.36.
In the biathlon 4x6km relay event the Russian quartet of Anna Bogaliy-Titovets, Olga Medvedtseva, Olga Zaitseva and Svetlana Steptsova claimed the gold medal with France taking the silver and Germany the bronze.