short track speed skating

20Km W's Cross-country Skiiing 

Estonia's Kristina Smigun opened the medal count for the former-Soviet, Baltic countries with a Gold in 15km pursuit Cross-Country (the race in which Canada's Beckie Scott finished 6th).  Katerina Neumannova from Czech Republic took Silver finishing about a second behind while Russia's Evgenia Medvedeva-Abruzova scored the Bronze medal.  Beside Beckie's 6th, Canada's Sara Renner of Canmore, AB., finished 16th in a discipline which saw numerous competetitors already suspended for 5 days for high blood hempglobin levels or something.