TURIN, Italy (AP) – At last, a figure skating medal for the United States – in ice dancing, of all things. And yet another Olympic gold for Russia.

Tanith Belbin and partner Ben Agosto snapped the U.S. medals drought in figure skating with a silver. They were behind Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov, who gave Russia a gold medal hat trick – pairs, men’s and dance. No nation has swept the four skating events in one games, and Russian Irina Slutskaya is favored in the women’s competition.

“I am extremely proud that we’ve been able to achieve this for our country,” said the Canadian-born Belbin, who became a U.S. citizen on Dec. 31.

Belbin and Agosto won the first dance medal for the United States since a bronze in 1976 – and only the second medal of any kind. It also is the only medal for American figure skaters at these Olympics.

Elena Grushina and Ruslan Goncharov of Ukraine won the bronze.

All three couples performed with poise and style. Even better, nobody crashed to the ice.

Sunday’s original dance was marred by falls and an injury that forced the top Canadians out of the free dance. Italian favorites Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio were back, friends again, after their flop and subsequent venomous staredown.

Not only were they clean, but they kissed and made up after four minutes of tense skating featuring some intricate lifts and carries. She put her arm around his shoulder as they sat next to each other this time – observing the mediocre scores that placed them sixth.

Alpine skiing

Austrian Michaela Dorfmeister won her second gold medal of the Turin Games and Janica Kostelic of Croatia became the most decorated woman in Olympic Alpine skiing history with a silver in the super-G.

Dorfmeister, the last of the top 30 skiers to race, overcame a course softened by the sun to edge Kostelic by .27 seconds in a time of 1 minute, 32.47 seconds.

The 24-year-old Kostelic’s silver was her sixth Olympic medal – four of them gold – and her second these games. No other woman Alpine skier has more than five.

Austria’s Alexandra Meissnitzer won the bronze, .59 behind the 32-year-old Dorfmeister, who is retiring after this season.

Lindsey Kildow was the top American finisher, in seventh place. Julia Julia Mancuso was 11th and veteran Kirsten Clark, from Raymond, Maine, finished 14th.

Hockey

No more Swedish surprises. Hockey is Canada’s game, and their gold-medal win was a fitting finale for the most dominant women’s team ever assembled.

The Canadians scored with pinpoint passes and dazzling pirouettes, soft wrist shots and firm tip-ins. The 4-1 victory wasn’t the rematch with the U.S. everyone expected, but Canada still sent upstart Sweden home with the same thrashing it had planned for its American archrivals.

Behind Kim Martin, its 19-year-old wall of a goalie, Sweden managed a 3-2 semifinal shootout win over the U.S. on Friday.

But Gillian Apps’ goal on a surreal backhand just 3:15 in, showed Canada was on its game. The Canadians’ relentless forechecking, heady passing and sturdy defense – improbably questioned by the cocky Swedes beforehand – were practically flawless in a game just as one-sided as every other in their 46-2 march through Italy.

In the bronze-medal game, the U.S. women hustled to loose pucks, finished their checks and showcased their superior talent, jumping to an early lead and dominating Finland, 4-0.

Katie King scored two of her three goals in the first period to give the Americans a three-goal lead, and they glided to a 4-0 victory over Finland on Monday, playing in the third-place game they would’ve rather watched on TV from their dressing room.

Ski jumping

Thomas Morgenstern and Andreas Kofler carried over their success from the large hill competition, leading Austria to the Olympic gold medal in the ski jumping team event.

Morgenstern, who won individual gold Saturday on the large hill, landed a jump of 140.5 meters in the final round to secure Austria’s third ski jumping medal of the Turin Olympics.

Large hill silver medalist Kofler had a jump of 130 meters in the last round as Austria finished with 984 points.

Finland took the silver medal with 976.6 points. Norway got the longest jump of the final round from veteran Roar Ljoekelsoey – 141 meters – but had to settle for the bronze.

Bobsled

Shauna Rohbock got pushed aside four years ago, forced to stand at the finish line and cheer when Vonetta Flowers and the U.S. team slid to Olympic bobsled history.

Now, Rohbock is on the edge of making a little of her own.

Rohbock, who was replaced by Flowers just before the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, and brakeman Valerie Fleming are in third place following the first two heats of women’s bobsled, trailing a pair of German sleds.

The Americans, desperate for a boost to what has so far been a disappointing stay in the Alps, barely trail Germany-1, piloted by Sandra Kiriasis, and Germany-2, driven by Susi-Lisa Erdmann.

Kiriasis leads with a time of 1 minute, 54.93 seconds down the 19-turn course. Erdmann is .08 seconds behind that, while Rohbock trails by a mere .09 seconds.

Freestyle skiing

Jeret “Speedy” Peterson was the lone American of four to advance to finals in men’s aerials, a disappointing effort for a U.S. freestyle team considered one of the best in the world.

While Peterson made it, Joe Pack, Ryan St. Onge and Eric Bergoust all failed to advance to Wednesday night’s 12-man finals. Pack, the defending Olympic silver medalist, is ranked eighth in the world and St. Onge is ranked fourth.

Xiopeng Han of China led the qualifying, followed by Dmitri Dashinki of Belarus and Warren Shouldice of Canada, who has dual citizenship in the United States.