Welcome to your day by day evaluation and preview of this yr’s Milan-Cortina Olympics. My identify is John Cherwa and I’m your tour director for the Games questioning if we noticed the end of one Olympic superstar (Lindsey Vonn) and the birth of a new Olympic superstar (Ilia Malinin). And, we bought to listen to the U.S. nationwide anthem twice.
As America awoke on Sunday morning, it discovered of the drama within the girls’s downhill as Olympic darling Lindsey Vonn crashed at the highest of the course, ending her medal goals in her fifth Olympics. Good news, nothing life threatening however a damaged left leg. Frankly, scenes of her being helicoptered off the mountain appeared scarier than happening a hill on skis at round 90 mph. Vonn was additionally scheduled to run in one other race however this harm will possible cease that.
I watched the morning replay on NBC, which truncated the incident to just some minutes slightly than the close to 20-minute delay the crash induced. Then I went to Peacock and watched the stay feed, which stayed with the story in its entirety with a lot of the pictures being of teammates, coaches, household and followers. Lead snowboarding announcer Dan Hicks had simply the fitting tone of concern with out hysterical overreaction. NBC performed it completely. (Too late, however Hicks would have been a better option to host the opening ceremony slightly than Terry [Vanilla] Gannon.)
On the stay feed, you can hear some wailing within the background, presumably by Vonn, however the sound wasn’t cranked up. NBC additionally waited some time to indicate the replay, which wasn’t grotesque. In brief, she hit a gate and it threw off her stability and her race was over.
Lost in all of this was that Breezy Johnson of the U.S. was the gold medal winner, the primary of the Games for the U.S. While most had no thought who she was being dwarfed within the shadow of Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin, she was the world champion within the downhill final yr so her win was not an enormous shock.
Lindsey Vonn is airlifted off the mountain.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Interestingly, NBC continued its rose-colored glasses protection by not mentioning — at least we didn’t hear it — that Johnson was suspended for 14 months for skipping three drug assessments. NBC additionally ignored the boo-fest when Vice President JD Vance was proven at the opening ceremony. You would suppose the Games had been on CBS.
The harm to Vonn brings up the query of how harmful is Alpine snowboarding. By comparability, not a lot. A examine by the British Journal of Sports Medicine of the previous 4 Winter Olympics confirmed that Alpine snowboarding is low on the chart with a 13.4% common harm charge, barely forward of determine skating, at 12.2%.
It’s the motion sports activities which might be essentially the most harmful, the place six disciplines are at the highest of the harm chart. They are ski massive air (28.1%), ski halfpipe (27.6%), snowboard cross (26.6%), snowboard slopestyle (26.2%), ski aerials (24.3%) and ski slopestyle (23.2%).
The U.S. workforce celebrates profitable gold within the workforce occasion in determine skating.
(Jamie Squire / Getty Images)
The U.S. completed the day by profitable gold within the workforce determine skating in dramatic style. Tied with Japan at 59-59 heading into the ultimate competitors, the lads’s singles, Ilia Malinin of Virginia overcame a slip the place each arms touched the ice to win the lads’s singles with an astonishing rating of 200.03. It gave the U.S. a 69-68 win and the gold. We’ll see extra of the “Quad God” later within the Games.
Elsewhere on Sunday
—The U.S. blended doubles curling workforce rebounded from two losses on Saturday to beat Sweden (8-7) and Estonia (5-3) on Sunday to enhance to 4-2.
—Norway received a gold and bronze within the males’s 10-kilometer skiathlon. The U.S. bought a 24th out of Gus Schumacher.
—France received the biathlon blended relay, the one Winter Olympic sport during which “open carry” is allowed. The U.S. was fifth.
—Norway picked up its third gold (most of any nation) in males’s 5,000 meters in speedskating. Watching a 5K race is the Olympic model of watching the late Bob Ross paint, however not as entertaining. Great for tingleheads. (Look it up.)
—Germany received its seventh straight males’s single luge competitors. Jonathan Gustafson was tops for the U.S. in 11th. If you wager the prediction markets, at all times decide Germany in sliding sports activities.
—Austria and Czechia received the lads’s and girls’s parallel big slalom. The U.S. was not aggressive in both races.
Best Thing to Watch on TV right this moment
Flagbearer Erin Jackson leads the U.S. workforce within the opening ceremony.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
The return of the work week means there may very well be a slowdown in manufacturing in America’s places of work, particularly as a result of essentially the most attention-grabbing stuff is within the morning. Got to say, have discovered little to no motive to look at the primetime present up to now. Maybe when Mike Tirico will get to Italy the present can be greater than a replay present. (Remember earlier than the proliferation of cable stations once you would tune in Sunday mornings for the Notre Dame soccer highlights present? We miss you, Harry Kalas.) We’re going away from massive sports activities for right this moment’s suggestions. We have some curiosity within the girls’s 1,000 meters in speedskating, the place U.S. flag bearer Erin Jackson makes her first look. She’s the world document holder, set in 2019, on this occasion. She received the five hundred meters in Beijing. She goes within the 10th pair of competitors that begins at 8:30 a.m. PST. Also within the race, within the 12th pair, is Brittany Bowe, who received bronze in Beijing. Also, on Monday morning is the curling blended workforce semifinals. The U.S. is 4-2 and in second behind Britain and performs third place Italy on Monday morning. Presumably, the U.S. will make the semifinals. The semis begin at 9:05 a.m. PST. Stick to the large community because the SilverZone (demoted from gold) on Peacock reveals no respect for curling (See Sunday’s e-newsletter.)
Monday’s full Olympic TV and streaming schedule
Monday’s stay TV and streaming broadcasts for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics until famous (topic to vary). All occasions stream stay on Peacock or NBCOlympics.com with a streaming or cable login. All occasions Pacific. 🏅 — medal occasion for stay broadcasts.
MULTIPLE SPORTS
8 p.m. — “Primetime in Milan” (delay) Figure skating, snowboarding, snowboarding, speedskating, luge and extra. | NBC
ALPINE SKIING
1:30 a.m. — Men’s mixed, downhill | USA
2:45 a.m. — Women’s downhill (re-air) | USA
4:50 a.m. — 🏅Men’s mixed, slalom | USA, Peacock
9:45 a.m. — Men’s mixed (delay) | NBC
10 p.m. — Men’s mixed (re-air) | USA
CURLING
Mixed doubles (spherical robin)
1:05 a.m. — Italy vs. U.S. | Peacock
1:05 a.m. — Czechia vs. Estonia | Peacock
1:05 a.m. — Norway vs. South Korea | Peacock
1:05 a.m. — Switzerland vs. Canada | Peacock
6 a.m. — Italy vs. U.S. (delay) | USA
9:05 a.m. — Semifinal, groups TBD | Peacock
2 p.m. — Semifinal, groups TBD (delay) | CNBC
5:45 p.m. — Semifinal groups TBD (re-air) | USA
FIGURE SKATING
8:20 a.m. — Rhythm dance, warmup | Peacock
10:20 a.m. — Rhythm dance, Part 1 | USA
11:40 a.m. — Rhythm dance, Part 2 | NBC
11 p.m. — Rhythm dance (re-air) | USA
FREESTYLE SKIING
3:30 a.m. — 🏅Women’s slopestyle, remaining | USA
HOCKEY
Women (group play)
3:10 a.m. — Japan vs. Italy | Peacock
7:40 a.m. — Germany vs. France | Peacock
9 a.m. — Germany vs. France (delay) | USA
11:40 a.m. — Switzerland vs. U.S. | USA
12:10 p.m. — Canada vs. Czechia | Peacock
2 p.m. — Canada vs. Czechia (delay) | USA
8 p.m. — Switzerland vs. U.S. (re-air) | USA
LUGE
4:30 a.m. — Women’s doubles, coaching | Peacock
8 a.m. — Women’s singles, Run 1 | USA
9:35 a.m. — Women’s singles, Run 2 | USA
5 p.m. — Women’s singles, runs 1-2 (re-air) | USA
SKI JUMPING
9 a.m. — Men’s regular hill, trial spherical | Peacock
10 a.m. — Men’s regular hill, first spherical | Peacock
11:10 a.m. — 🏅Men’s regular hill, remaining | Peacock
2:30 p.m. — Men’s regular hill, remaining (delay) | USA
7:15 p.m. — Men’s regular hill, remaining (re-air) | USA
SPEEDSKATING
8:30 a.m. — 🏅Women’s 1,000 meters | USA
9 a.m. — Women’s 1,000 meters (in progress) | NBC
3:45 p.m. — Women’s 1,000 meters (re-air) | USA
SNOWBOARDING
10:30 a.m. — 🏅Women’s massive air, remaining | NBC
You can find the full medal table here.
In case you missed it …
Check out the next Milan-Cortina Olympics dispatches from from the L.A. Times workforce on the bottom in Italy:
Ilia Malinin powers U.S. to Olympic gold in team figure skating competition
U.S. Olympic athletes in Italy are speaking out about the political situation at home
Are you ready for the Olympics? Here are some U.S. stars worth a follow
After Lindsey Vonn broke her leg, Breezy Johnson earned redemptive gold medal
Italian police fire tear gas in clash with anti-ICE protesters near Olympics venue
Until subsequent time…
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