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because it's crappy."
• American Danny Davis labeled the halfpipe as "garbage" on Sunday. After returning Monday, he said things were slightly improved but not ideal.
• "It's a bummer to show up to an event like the Olympics and not have the quality of the halfpipe match the quality of the riders," Davis said. "Anyone who watched practice tonight can see there were a bunch of people bouncing around in the flat bottom."
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Tuesday, Feb. 11, the 42nd day of 2014. There are 323 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Feb. 11, 1812, Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry signed a redistricting law favoring his Democratic-Republican Party - giving rise to the term "gerrymandering."
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• On this date:
• In 1858, a French girl, Bernadette Soubirous (soo-bee-ROO'), reported the first of 18 visions of a lady dressed in white in a grotto near Lourdes. (The Catholic Church later accepted that the visions were of the Virgin Mary.)
• In 1862, the Civil War Battle of Fort Donelson began in Tennessee. (Union forces led by Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant captured the fort five days later.)
• In 1929, the Lateran Treaty was signed, with Italy recognizing the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City.
• In 1937, a six-week-old sit-down strike against General Motors ended, with the company agreeing to recognize the United Automobile Workers Union.
• In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement during World War II.
• In 1963, American author and poet Sylvia Plath was found dead in her London flat, a suicide; she was 30.
• In 1964, The Beatles performed their first American concert at the Washington Coliseum in Washington, D.C.
• In 1972, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. and Life magazine canceled plans to publish what had turned out to be a fake autobiography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes.
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