TURIN, Italy (AP) – The South Koreans waited four years and ganged up on Apolo Anton Ohno, dropping the American star to an Olympic bronze medal in 1,000-meter short track speedskating.

Ahn Hyun-Soo won his second gold medal of these games and teammate Lee Ho-Suk took the silver.

The bronze gave Ohno a complete set of Olympic medals. In 2002, he won a disputed gold in the 1,500 over the South Koreans and took silver in the 1,000.

In his first event earlier in the week, Ohno stumbled while attempting a bold pass on the leader in the 1,500 and failed to get out of the semifinals. Ahn won the 1,500 and Lee finished second.

Jin Sun-yu and Choi Eun-kyung finished 1-2 in the women’s 1,500-meter short track speedskating final, and South Korea missed out on a podium sweep when Byun Chun-sa was disqualified for impeding.

China’s Wang Meng was awarded the bronze following Byun’s disqualification. Wang won gold in the women’s 500 on Wednesday.

Jin, the 2005 world champion, has been impressive all season – finishing in the top three at every World Cup meet.

Hockey

Switzerland stunned defending Olympic champion Canada with a 2-0 victory that shook up the men’s hockey tournament, then the United States lost 2-1 to Slovakia.

Canadian-born Paul DiPietro scored twice and goalie Martin Gerber turned aside 49 shots for the Swiss, who beat the near equivalent of an NHL all-star team with only two NHL players in their lineup.

Cheered on by hundreds of arena-rocking fans who chanted “Hop, Suisse! Hop, Suisse!” – the equivalent of Go Swiss! – the Swiss pulled off one of the biggest upsets in modern Olympic hockey history only two days after doing the same thing by beating the world champion Czech Republic 3-2.

Canada and Switzerland are now 2-1.

Atlanta Thrashers teammates Marian Hossa and Peter Bondra sandwiched goals around one by Brian Rolston to give Slovakia a win. Slovakia (3-0) strengthened its first-place hold in Group B, moving two points ahead of Russia (2-1) and Sweden and three in front of the Americans (1-1-1).

Jaromir Jagr was assisted off the ice with a bloody cut forehead, and the Czech Republic (1-2) suffered a 4-2 loss that kept Finland (3-0) as one of two unbeatens.

Jagr, the NHL’s leading scorer, was helped to the locker room in the second period. His status is unknown.

Evgeni Nabokov made 24 saves in his second straight shutout and Alexander Kharitonov snapped a scoreless tie midway through the second period in Russia’s 1-0 victory over Kazakhstan (0-3).

Peter Forsberg set up two goals in his first game of the tournament, helping the Swedes (2-1) beat Latvia (0-2-1) 6-1. Forsberg had been out with a groin problem.

Christian Borgatello scored a short-handed goal with 1:32 left that put Italy (0-2-1) on the brink of victory, but Marcel Goc answered 15 seconds later for Germany (0-2-1), forcing a 3-3 tie that probably means neither team will advance out of group play.

Alpine skiing

Janica Kostelic won an Olympic medal again, and of course it was gold.

The 24-year-old Croatian became the first woman to win four Olympic Alpine gold medals when she fought off illness to successfully defend her championship in the combined event.

Her five Olympic medals overall – she also has one silver – tied Kostelic for the most by a woman in Alpine skiing with Swiss great Vreni Schneider and German Katja Seizinger. Kostelic is entered in three more medal races these games.

Kostelic’s total time between the downhill and two slalom runs Friday night was 2:51.08, beating Austrian Marlies Schild by a half-second and leaving rival Anja Paerson of Sweden in third.

This after Kostelic had said she might not be able to race because of sickness.

Kostelic’s medal was the second for her family these games. Her brother, Ivica, won silver in the men’s Alpine combined. It’s the first time since 1980 in Lake Placid that a brother and sister have won medals at the same Olympics.

Ski jumping

Austria’s Thomas Morgenstern had the longest jump of the day, edging compatriot Andreas Kofler to win the gold medal in large hill ski jumping.

Morgenstern soared 140 meters on his second jump on the large hill to come from behind and beat first-round leader Kofler by one tenth of a point.

Morgenstern, who was second after a first jump of 133 meters, finished with 276.9 points to become the first Austrian to win on the big hill in 30 years.

Kofler had jumps of 134 and 139.5 meters to finish second with 276.8 points. Normal hill gold medalist Lars Bystoel of Norway took the bronze.

Cross country skiing

Evgenia Medvedeva-Abruzova made up a 12-second deficit on the leading Germans with her final leg to lift Russia to the Olympic gold in the women’s 4x5km cross-country relay.

After taking over the lead, Medvedeva-Abruzova skated all alone through the final stretch to finish in a time of 54 minutes, 47.7 seconds.

Claudia Kuenzel of defending champion Germany dropped out of the top three after giving up the lead, but fought back to cross second for the silver, 10 seconds behind Russia.

Italy came in 1 second after Germany to take the bronze, keeping the favored Norwegians off the podium. Sweden was fourth and Norway fifth.

Bobsled

Americans Todd Hays and Pavle Jovanovic were in sixth place following the first two runs of the two-man bobsled competition.

Hays, a former college linebacker and kickboxing champion from Del Rio, Texas, piloted USA-1 down the tricky 19-turn track in 1 minute, 51.53 seconds, .52 seconds behind Germany’s Andre Lange.

Lange, the defending four-man Olympic champion, nearly made a solo trip on his second run when brakeman Kevin Kuske slipped getting into the sled and was briefly dragged. But Lange, who set a track record (55.28 seconds) on his first run, made up for the mishap and has a .06-second lead.

Biathlon

Norway’s Ole Einar Bjoerndalen was denied gold again when France’s Vincent Defrasne sped past him on the final straightaway to win the men’s 12.5K biathlon pursuit.

Bjoerndalen won another silver to go with the one he took in the 20km race.

Sven Fischer of Germany, who started in the lead, won the bronze, 15.6 seconds back.

Bjoerndalen swept all four gold medals at the Salt Lake City Games and was expected to challenge for the gold in all five races in Italy. He still has a shot in the relay, where Norway is a favorite, and in the mass start.

The worst of conditions brought out the best in Germany’s Kati Wilhelm, who convincingly won the Olympic gold medal in the women’s 10K biathlon pursuit in a snowstorm and swirling winds.

Curling

Pete Fenson’s U.S. curling team beat Germany 8-5 in nine ends, pulling away to victory with three points in the eighth and boosting its chances of advancing to the medal round. Italy pulled a stunning 7-6 upset over curling power Canada (4-3), winning in an extra end.

At 5-2, the Americans are in good position to at least qualify for a tiebreaker at the end of the nine-game round-robin. Germany (1-5) has been all but eliminated from medal contention.

Italy, which had never before fielded an Olympic curling team, improved to 4-3.

and is also in contention to make the semifinals. The curling venue in Pinerolo was near its capacity for Saturday’s afternoon session, coming alive as the host Italians faced the 29-time world champions.

Britain (6-1) beat Switzerland (3-4) and Finland (5-2) beat defending champion Norway (3-4).

The U.S. women’s curling team waited until it was virtually out of the running to have its best game of the Olympics, beating Italy 11-3 in just six ends.

A regulation curling match is 10 ends, but a team will concede when it is so far down it cannot come back. The eight-point margin of victory ties an Olympic record for the women’s tournament.

In other games during the night session, first-place Sweden needed an extra end to beat Japan and improve to 7-1.

Norway beat Britain in nine ends to improve to 5-2, tied for second with Switzerland.

Britain (4-3) is tied with Canada. Denmark, Japan and Russia are 2-4.

The Americans (2-5) avoided taking sole possession of last place by beating Italy (1-6), a country with no curling tradition to speak of. Although the United States is not mathematically eliminated, it is expected to need at least five wins in the nine-game round-robin to qualify for the semifinals.