On a day stuffed with Olympic motion and storylines, it’ll be onerous to deal with something however the beautiful males’s determine skating competitors.
Olympic favorite Ilia Malinin mentioned he “blew it” after he positioned a shocking eighth within the males’s determine skating remaining. He fell twice throughout the routine, and described a flood of “traumatic moments” dashing by his head earlier than he started. Mikhail Shaidorov gained gold in a large and meaningful victory for Kazakhstan.
Here are different medal moments from at present:
USA’s hockey dominance: Team USA outshot Italy by an astonishing 51-6 margin within the recreation, and can now advance to the semifinals within the quest for a 3rd Olympic gold medal. The recreation ended 6-0.
Snowboarding shut calls: Australia’s Josie Baff claimed gold in ladies’s snowboard cross by a very narrow margin. Japan’s Yuto Totsuka took gold within the males’s snowboard halfpipe, with Australian snowboarding legend Scotty James in second after he fell on the final second.
Czech Republic’s beautiful gold: Nineteen-year-previous Metodej Jilek claimed gold within the males’s 10,000m velocity skating.
Norway’s snowboarding gold: Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo won an astonishing third gold medal of the Games after successful the 10km cross-nation snowboarding interval begin.
Men’s biathlon drama: Norway’s Sturla Holm Laegreid, who confessed on reside put up-race TV to dishonest on his girlfriend, gained his second bronze of the Games within the males’s biathlon 10km dash.
In different information:
Ukrainian’s enchantment dismissed: Skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych will stay disqualified from the Games for defying IOC tips banning his helmet that includes photographs of athletes killed during the war in Ukraine, the Court of Arbitration for Sport dominated.
Ice dance controversy: There are questions round a French duo successful the ice dancing event after a French choose’s marks swayed the outcome, knocking Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates to silver.
NCS’s Aditi Sangal, Kevin Dotson, Frank Nunns O’Connell contributed to this report.