watches as all the remaining skaters finish behind her. Renate Groenewold beats Canadian Cindy Klassen in their pair, but the two end up taking silver and bronze. Anni Friesinger, who was, along with Klassen, considered a favourite by CBC, finished outside the podium. (CBC.ca) Cricket: 2005–06 VB Series – Second Final Australia defeat Sri Lanka to level the best of three final 1 all. Australia scored 368/5 off their fifty overs after being 10/3 at the start of the third over. Both Ricky Ponting and Andrew Symonds scored centuries. Muttiah Muralitharan finished the innings with figures of 99/0 off 10 overs, the most expensive in ODI history for a 10 over spell. In reply, Sri Lanka ended all out on 201, with Mahela Jayawardene and Russel Arnold scoring half centuries. The series will now be decided on 14 February at the Brisbane Cricket Ground. Andrew Symonds was named man of the match. Australia won the match by 167 runs. 11 February 2006 (Saturday) Cricket : Indian cricket team in Pakistan in 2005–06 India level the 5 match ODI series 1–1. Pakistan win the toss and bat, setting India 266 to win at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium. Shoaib Malik scored 95 before being run out. India chased down the total with 6.5 overs left, for a 7 wicket victory. Yuvraj Singh made 83 not out. XX Winter Olympic Games, Turin, opening day: Biathlon, men's 20 km individual: Michael Greis of Germany wins gold in the time of 54:23.0, despite missing one of his 20 shots, in what NBC describes as an "upset". Defending Olympic champion Ole Einar Bjørndalen clinches silver, 16 seconds behind Greis, after missing two shots, while 1998 gold medallist Halvard Hanevold records his second medal on an Olympic 20 km, pipping Russia's Sergei Tchepikov to the medal by 0.8 seconds. (NBC Olympics) Nordic combined, Gundersen: Georg Hettich of Germany defends his lead after the ski jumping portion with a race of 39:44.6 to record Germany's second gold medal at the Olympics, after two events. Silver medallist Felix Gottwald of Austria and bronze medallist Magnus Moan of Norway both managed to beat Hettich by more than a minute in the cross-country leg, but after eleventh and ninth place respectively in the ski jumping leg, their cross-country skiing is not enough to take them to the very top of the podium. Moan beats compatriot Petter Tande in a dash for