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ing athletes will return to the rapidly improving course Saturday morning to vie for one of the four remaining spots.
• Roope Tonteri of Finland, Staale Sandbech of Norway and Sven Thorgen of Sweden also had little trouble navigating the sun-splashed mountain, all posting scores in the 90s that seemed to quell the notion the field was going to struggle on a track deemed anywhere from ambitious to treacherous during training.
• Yet White's absence overshadowed the premiere -- a day before the Sochi Games opening ceremony -- of one of the latest action sports to find its way onto the Olympic slopes.
• The two-time halfpipe gold medalist was hoping to pull a halfpipe-slopestyle double but jammed his wrist in practice on Tuesday and decided he didn't want to jeopardize his chance at becoming the first American male to win gold in three consecutive Winter Games.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Thursday, Feb. 6, the 37th day of 2014. There are 328 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Feb. 6, 1952, Britain's King George VI died at Sandringham House in Norfolk, England; he was succeeded as monarch by his elder daughter, who became Queen Elizabeth II.
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• On this date:
• In 1778, the United States won official recognition from France with the signing of a Treaty of Alliance in Paris.
• In 1788, Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
• In 1899, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain was ratified by the U.S. Senate.
• In 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, was born in Tampico, Ill.
• In 1922, Cardinal Archille Ratti was elected pope; he took the name Pius XI.
• In 1933, the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the so-called "lame duck" amendment, was proclaimed in effect by Secretary of State Henry Stimson.
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