The Sports Illustrated Olympic Daily is published in Salt Lake City and available in event venues and on newsstands for 16 straight days during the 2002 Winter Games. Here are some sights and scenes from today’s edition.

Vladislav Tretiak    HOCKEY

Olympic Highlights: Gold medal goalie in 1972, '76, '84

Tretiak, once the anchor of the U.S.S.R. defense, is now a goalie consultant in the U.S. Todd Rosenberg

During the six weeks each summer that Tretiak runs goalie camps in Canada and the U.S., the students range from elementary schoolers to NHLers to elementary schoolers on their way to becoming NHLers. An example of the last group would be Canadian Olympian Martin Brodeur, with whom Tretiak began working when Brodeur was 11. As goaltending consultant for the Chicago Blackhawks, a position he has held for 11 years, Tretiak had such influence on former Hawks netminder Ed Belfour that Belfour began wearing Tretiak's number 20 in 1997 and has done so ever since. Tretiak, 49, earned his revered stature with three Olympic golds and 10 world championships, but he is best remembered for being pulled before the start of the second period during his team's 4-3 loss to the U.S. at the 1980 Games in Lake Placid. "For me it was shock, shock, shock," says Tretiak, who splits his time between Chicago and Moscow. "I never sat on the bench in a big game. My team was thinking, Oh, students play against us." Unshaken, Tretiak would later be named MVP of the '81 Canada Cup and the '83 worlds, but he saved his best for his final big tournament, the '84 Olympics, when he had shutouts against medal-round foes Czechoslovakia and Canada. "Every game I played after 1980," he says, "I wanted to show the coach made a mistake." In 1989 Tretiak took his place alongside North American stars in the Hockey Hall of Fame. "My federation never let me play in the NHL," Tretiak says. "To be elected was like a big present."

—Brian Cazeneuve