Reuters Winter Olympics Schedule at 0600 GMT on Friday Feb 19

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Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:00am EST

Feb 19 (Reuters) - Reuters Winter Olympics schedule at 0600 GMT on Friday (all times GMT):

VANCOUVER - American Evan Lysacek glided to Olympic gold in men's figure skating on Thursday in a stunning upset of Russian Yevgeny Plushenko's pursuit of back-to-back gold medals, first at Turin and now Vancouver. (OLYMPICS/ WRAPUP6/, moving shortly, by Mary Milliken, 650 words)

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FIGURE SKATING

VANCOUVER - American Evan Lysacek stunned his rivals, including reigning champion Yevgeny Plushenko, with a spell-binding free skate on Thursday to win the Olympic men's figure skating gold. (OLYMPICS-FIGURE SKATING, pix, moved, by Pritha Sarkar and Sonia Oxley, 500 words)

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ALPINE SKIING

WHISTLER - World champion Didier Cuche starts favourite in the second men's Alpine skiing event of the Vancouver Games, the super-G, with fellow Swiss Didier Defago, who won the downhill here, and Carlo Janka also in contention. (OLYMPICS-ALPINE SKIING/MEN-SUPER-G (PIX), race scheduled to start at 1930 GMT, Alan Baldwin, Simon Evans and Patrick Vignal report, 450 words)

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FIGURE SKATING

VANCOUVER - The ice dance gets underway with the compulsory Tango Romantica, with world champions Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin likely to set the pace in the first of the competition's three dances. (OLYMPICS-FIGURE SKATING/, pix, expect by 0500, by Pritha Sarkar and Sonia Oxley, 500 words)

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CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING

WHISTLER - Norway's Marit Bjoergen, winner of the women's 1.4km sprint classic on Wednesday, seeks her third medal of the Vancouver Winter Olympics in the 15km pursuit at Whistler Olympic Park. (OLYMPICS-CROSS COUNTRY/WOMEN-MEDALS (PIX, TV), expect by 2150 on Friday, by Steve Ginsburg, 400 words)

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SKI JUMPING

WHISTLER - Swiss gold medallist jumper Simon Ammann expected to react to Austria's threat to launch formal protest about his use of modified bindings; Austria says bindings give him unfair advantage (OLYMPICS-SKI JUMPING/AMMANN, expect by 1930 Saturday, by David Ljunggren, 400 words)

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(Duty Editor, Miles Evans, Winter Olympics desk, +17783739753)

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