Silver again as fortune turns against the US

American Julie Chu has four times stood on the ice, listened to Canada's national anthem and watched the Maple Leaf raised to the roof while the United States' great rival celebrated an Olympic women's ice hockey gold medal.

Three times Chu has had to settle for Olympic silver and once for bronze, the gold medal always just beyond her grasp.

But never before had Chu and her teammates come so close to reaching the top of the podium as they did on Thursday, when Canada stormed back from 2-0 down with fewer than four minutes to play to claim a 3-2 overtime win and turn the American Olympic dream into a Sochi Winter Games nightmare.