Day 12 of the Olympics was stuffed with fireworks for Team USA.
Here are the highlights:
Shiffrin wins: USA’s star skier Mikaela Shiffrin gained the ladies’s slalom and ended her eight-year Olympic medal drought with the most important win margin in any alpine snowboarding occasion, males or girls’s, since 1998. The historic win is the 4-time Olympian’s third gold medal – essentially the most of any American alpine skier ever.
Nail-biting quarterfinals in males’s ice hockey: Team USA broke a tie and beat Sweden 2-1 in extra time. Finland won towards Switzerland 3-2. Canada additionally moved on to semifinals following a 4-3 thriller towards the Czech Republic. Slovakia defeated Germany 6-2.
Other medal information:
Most profitable Winter Olympian of all time: Norway’s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo gained his fifth gold of the Games in males’s cross-nation crew dash. It’s the 10th overall gold of his career.
Sweden clinches gold: Maja Dahlqvist and Jonna Sundling won gold within the girls’s cross nation crew dash free.
Canada’s pace skating gold: Steven Dubois won the men’s 500m short track speed skate gold medal. The Netherlands’ Melle van ‘t Wout stood on the rostrum together with his brother, Jens, with the duo taking house silver and bronze.
Korea’s final-minute win: On the final lap, the Republic of Korea shocked spectators within the girls’s 3000m brief monitor relay, pulling into first place forward of Italy.
France’s gold: France cruised within the girls’s biathlon 4 x 6km relay to say gold greater than 51 seconds forward of silver medalists Sweden.
China’s victories: China’s Su Yiming clinched the gold medal within the men’s slopestyle final – on his twenty second birthday no much less. Later, Xu Mengtao won gold in the women’s freeski aerials.
Japan’s success: First-time Olympian Mari Fukada won the women’s snowboard slopestyle.
In different information: Ukrainian officers will not attend the Winter Paralympic Games in March after the International Paralympic Committee determined to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete below their respective nationwide flags.