Steve Futterman

Neil Sedaka's first number one hit was Breaking Up Is Hard To Do.

there would be other hits calendar girl and oh carol written for his one-time girlfriend carol king when the british invasion hit sadaka's career suffered but in the 70s he made a comeback thanks in large part to elton john who helped promote it and sang backup on his biggest comeback hit bad blood sadeqa was also a prolific songwriter for others

He wrote the classic Love Will Keep Us Together for Captain and Tennille.

For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles.

For the U.S., it couldn't have ended better, capturing its first gold medal in men's hockey since the 1980 Miracle on Ice.

That was the 12th gold for the Americans here, more than they have ever won at a Winter Olympics.

There were other memorable U.S.

performers, the American women taking the women's hockey gold, Michaela Schifrin winning the women's slalom, and Alyssa Liu taking gold in women's figure skating.

Not everything went as planned for the U.S.

Ilya Melinin imploded in his free skate and went from first to eighth.

Who was the biggest star during the two weeks?

It would be hard to top Norway's cross-country skier Johannes Klebo.

He won six gold medals, the most ever by an athlete in a single Winter Games.

For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Milan.

It was an emotional, hard-fought match with everything on the line.

The U.S.

scored first six minutes into the game.

Canada tied it one-to-one at the end of the second.

Neither team scored in the third, sending the game into overtime.

And just a minute 42 into the extra period, the U.S.