Main news of February 13

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WINTER OLYMPICS

- * Switzerland's Simon Amman has won the Olympic Gold medal in the men's individual Normal Hill ski jumping competition, with 108.0-meter jump, and overall score of 276.5 points

- * More than 200 people have taken to the streets in downtown Vancouver to protest against the Winter Olympics, CBC television reported

- * The technical committee and jury of the Olympics bobsleigh competition have decided to move the starting line for the men's competition to a lower elevation, the secretary general of the International Luge Federation said

- * Experts from the International Luge Federation have concluded that there was nothing wrong with the track where a Georgian luger died in a training accident, saying the crash was the athlete's fault

- * Georgia's team was wearing black bands and scarves at the Parade of Nations at the opening ceremony for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver to mourn the death of their national, luger Nodar Kumaritashvili

- * Canada's Governor General Michaelle Jean officially opened the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver

- * The opening ceremony for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games kicked off in Vancouver, Canada

 

WORLD

* Ukrainian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko has announced that the election of Viktor Yanukovych as president was illegitimate

* The crew of the cargo plane detained in Thailand in December on suspicion of arms smuggling have landed in Kazakhstan, but bad weather delayed their flight home to the southern Kazakh city of Shymkent

RUSSIA

* Guus Hiddink will leave his post as trainer of the Russian national football team when his current contract expires in June, the Dutch soccer coach revealed in De Telegraaf

* Viktor Yanukovych, the expected next Ukrainian president, says he cannot rule out Russia's Black Sea Fleet remaining in Ukraine after its lease on the Sevastopol naval base expires in 2017