a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/sports/olympics/27speed.html?partner=rssnytemc=rss"img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/02/27/sports/27speed_CA0/27speed_CA0-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/aThe American women eclipsed the world-record holders from Canada in a quarterfinal, and the U.S. men beat the Netherlands in the semifinals. More...