ON THE SLOPES: Fittingly enough, three Austrians were the last men standing in the final Alpine event.
Benjamin Raich earned his second gold medal of the Games and led an Austrian sweep in the men's slalom to complete that country's most successful Olympic Alpine competition ever.
Reinfried Herbst was second and Rainer Schoenfelder third to give Austria a record 14 Alpine medals.
It was the first time one nation swept all medals in an Olympic slalom race.
The Austrians' dominant performance came under floodlights after favorite Giorgio Rocca of Italy crashed and top American hopes Ted Ligety and Bode Miller also were eliminated in a brutal first of the two runs.
