medal. (CBC) Canada used a six-point sixth end to defeat Finland 10–4 in the gold medal match to win the nation's first gold medal in men's curling after winning silver in 1998 and 2002. (CBC) Ice hockey, men's semi finals: Sweden 7 – Czech Republic 3 (CBC) Finland 4 – Russia 0: Antero Niittymäki posted his third shutout of the tournament. (CBC) 23 February 2006 (Thursday) Football: 2005–06 UEFA Cup – Round of 32, second leg, progressing teams shown in bold. Strasbourg 0–0 Litex Lovech Espanyol 0–3 Schalke 04 Steaua Bucharest 0–1 Heerenveen Rapid Bucharest 2–0 Hertha Berlin AS Monaco 1–1 FC Basel AZ Alkmaar 2–1 Real Betis Zenit St. Petersburg 2–1 Rosenborg Levski Sofia 2–0 Artmedia Bratislava Marseille 2–1 Bolton Wanderers Shakhtar Donetsk 0–0 Lille Lens 1–0 Udinese Sevilla 2–0 Lokomotiv Moscow Roma 2–1 Club Brugge Middlesbrough 0–1 VfB Stuttgart Middlesbrough win on the away goals rule. Palermo 1–0 Slavia Prague Palermo win on the away goals rule. Hamburg 2–0 FC Thun (UEFA.com) XX Winter Olympic Games, Turin, day thirteen: Snowboarding, women's parallel giant slalom: Defending world cup champion Daniela Meuli of Switzerland won gold with Germany's Amelie Kober taking the silver and American Rosey Fletcher the bronze. (CBC) Biathlon, women's 4x6-km relay: Despite missing veteran Olga Pyleva, suspended for two years after failing an anti-doping test last week, the Russian team of Albina Akhatova, Anna Bogaliy, Svetlana Ishmuratova and Olga Zaitseva led from start to finish, posting a gold medal-winning time of 1:16:12.5. Two-time defending Olympic gold medallists from Germany finished 50.7 seconds behind for the silver. The French team took the bronze, more than two minutes back. (CBC) Curling: Canada (Glenys Bakker, Amy Nixon, Christine Keshen, Sandra Jenkins and Shannon Kleibrink) wins the bronze medal in women's curling, defeating Norway 11–5 in eight ends. (CBC) The Swedish women's team skipped by Anette Norberg win the gold medal match against Switzerland with a 7–6 double take out on the last stone of the 11th end. (CBC) Freestyle skiing: China's Han Xiaopeng wins gold in men's aerials by just over 2 points over Dmitri Dashinski of Belarus. Vladimir Lebedev of Russia wins Bronze. (CBC) Figure Skating: Shizuka Arakawa of Japan performs a conservative but clean free skate to defeat Sasha Cohen of the United States and Irina Slutskaya of Russia, who both suffer falls and take silver and bronze respectively. Arakawa's win gives Japan their first medal in Turin.