Short track speed skater Jon Eley provides GB's sole realistic chance of adding to Amy Williams' skeleton gold.

BBC: Team GB chiefs defend Olympic tally of one medal

Hometown crowds were overjoyed by gold medals from speed skater Shimizu Hiroyasu, free-style skier Satoya Tae, and ski jumper Funaki Kazuyoshi.

CNN: SPARKS IN THE DARKNESS

Shani Davis, the speed skater -- very cool and very silly.

WHITEHOUSE: First Lady Michelle Obama Q&A with Children

Mr. JOEY CHEEK (Olympic Speed Skater): Going into 2008 in the Beijing Olympics, they're hosting this and they're really looking at this as a coming out party.

NPR: Stars Come Out for Darfur Refugees

The Olympic flame was jointly lit by four Canadian sports heroes - all-time hockey great Wayne Gretzky, skier Nancy Greene, speed skater Catriona Le May Doan and basketball All-Star Steve Nash after being carried into the arena by paralympian Rick Hansen.

BBC: Winter Olympics start despite luge tragedy

Bronze medallist Alex Coomber, the women's bobsleigh team, luger Mark Hatton, speed skater Debbie Palmer - and of course Fiona MacDonald's husband Ewan, were whistling and cheering every time our girls blasted the Swiss stone or added another point to the scoreboard.

BBC: Britain's golden moment

She took a touring gymnastics show to more than 30 US states and graced the sofas of TV superstars Jay Leno, David Letterman and Ellen DeGeneres, before becoming the third Olympic gold medallist to win Dancing With The Stars (the other two being short-track speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno and figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi).

BBC: US gymnast Shawn Johnson seeks focus to succeed in 2012

But Mr. Marsicano, a speed-skater who was a U.S. silver medalist in the 2010 Olympics, will have to appreciate Lady Liberty from afar.

WSJ: Statue Is Alone Until Island Repaired