Americans Alysa Liu (69.50, eighth), Mariah Bell (65.38, 11th), and Karen Chen (64.11, 13th) all performed ahead of Valieva. Russia’s Alexandra Trusova (74.60) was fourth in the short program, which included 30 competitors. Valieva’s teammate Anna Shcherbakova (80.20) was second after the short program and Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto (79.84) was third. The men’s team finished ninth of 10.įigure skating: Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, competing despite a positive drug test, moved into first place after the short program. Ice hockey: Finland beat Switzerland, 4-0, in the women’s bronze medal game.Ĭross-country skiing: Jessie Diggins and her partner, Rosie Brennan, finished fifth in the women’s team sprint classic. France’s Clement Noel took gold, followed by Austria’s Johannes Strolz with silver. The American men have captured six of nine Olympic medals since the event made its debut in 2014.Īlpine skiing: Luke Winters, the only American competing in the men’s slalom, did not finish the race. Jesper Tjader of Sweden took home bronze. His teammate Nick Goepper turned in a creative run on his second pass to earn silver. Hall’s opening run drew a score of 90.01, which no one could match in three runs. And Sweden beat Canada, 2-0.įreestyle skiing: Alex Hall led a 1-2 American finish in the men’s slopestyle with a trick on his first run where he stopped his rotation midair and turned in the other direction before softly landing. In other results: The Russians beat Denmark, 3-1. But they ran into former Bruin Peter Cehlárik in the shootout, who got one by US goalie Strauss Mann. The upstart group - the youngest team in the tournament - had breezed through the preliminary rounds and earned the top seed. Ice hockey: The US men lost to Slovakia in a shootout, sending them home without a medal. It’s onto the bronze medal match for them. They were knocked out of the semifinals by Great Britain, 8-4. Three Americans advanced to the final as well: Brita Sigourney, Hanna Faulhaber, and Carly Margulies.Ĭurling: The US men’s curling team will not repeat as gold medalists. Alysa Liu finished seventh with a score of 208.95, Mariah Bell finished 10th with a score of 202.30, and Karen Chen finished 16th with a score of 179.93.įreestyle skiing: Eileen Gu earned the top score in the women’s halfpipe qualifying. Three American women competed in the final. Read more here.įigure skating: Kamila Valieva, the Russian teenager mired in a doping scandal, finished fourth in the women’s competition, and teammates Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova won gold and silver, respectively. A medal was certainly in play following the downhill portion, after which she sat in fifth place with a time of 1:32.98. Shiffrin skied out in the slalom portion of the women’s Alpine combined event. Related : Sullivan: The US-Canada women’s hockey gold medal game was a clash of titans, and we can’t wait until they do it againĪlpine skiing: For the third time, in thee Olympics, Mikaela Shiffrin did not finish her race.
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