Another nice day of motion yesterday with Team USA ending the night on a excessive observe. There was a heavy American presence in the lads’s freeski halfpipe finals, and never with out success, as Alex Ferreira won gold. Team USA’s males’s hockey crew rolled Slovakia 6-2, cementing a extremely anticipated rivalry showdown towards Canada for the gold.
Norway continues to steer the general medal rely with 37 complete and 17 golds – a new Winter Olympic document (however extra on that shortly…). The US is the runner-up with 29 medals and 10 golds, whereas Italy is in third with 27 medals and 9 golds.
Catch up on different thrilling medal moments from yesterday:
First gold of the day: Germany’s Daniela Maier won gold in the ladies’s ski cross in a closely-fought victory.
South Korea’s one-two: South Korea’s Kim Gilli won gold and Choi Minjeeong took silver in the ladies’s short-track velocity skating 1500m race. USA’s Corinne Stoddard earned bronze.
The Dutch received velocity skating once more… and once more: Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong skated her way to gold in the ladies’s 1500m last. The Netherlands then won the men’s 5000m relay short-track last, with Olympic favourite Jens van ‘T Wout incomes his third gold of the Games.
Swiss curling bronze: Switzerland crushed Norway 9-1 in the bronze medal curling match, after beating the US yesterday morning.
Canadian semifinal win: Team Canada will play for gold after a exceptional comeback in males’s ice hockey, defeating Finland by a rating of 3-2.
Another Norway victory: Johannes Dale-Skjevdal won gold in the lads’s 15km mass begin biathlon race.
Husband joins spouse in glory: Wang Xindi took gold in the lads’s aerials after a nail-biting last. Xu Mengtao, Wang’s partner, won the women’s aerials three days in the past. Talk about a energy couple.
In different information:
Unexpected IOC – Board of Peace overlap: International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry mentioned the group will look into IOC member and FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s presence at President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace assembly this week.
Stars at determine skating gala: Team USA stars Alysa Liu and Ilia Malinin will headline at this time’s Olympic Figure Skating Gala, amongst different distinguished skaters.
Hunter Hess doubles down: The Team USA freestyle skiier doubled down on feedback he made about representing the US on the Winter Olympics which drew the ire of Trump. Hess positioned tenth in at this time’s males’s halfpipe finals.
CNN’s Kyle Feldscher and Thomas Schlachter contributed to this report.
