Hello and welcome to Day 14 of the Winter Olympics!
Today, we welcome you in Filipino in honor of historical past making athlete Tallulah Proulx, who was each the first girl to compete for the Philippines in a Winter Olympics and the youngest ever Winter Olympian for the Asian nation. NCS spoke to her earlier than the Games – the place she positioned fiftieth in the slalom and 52nd in the large slalom – so try what she mentioned right here.
So reflecting on yesterday: wow. What a day for the United States at these Games. What started with a slight disappointment with Jordan Stolz’s shock silver in the 1500m (which continues to be an unbelievable achievement) ended with the girls’s hockey team beating Canada in an extra time thriller and Alysa Liu profitable the US its first girls’s particular person determine skating gold in 24 years.
The transition from pure velocity to fast, tough and tumble to grace and wonder was fairly the change up for everybody at residence, however they’d one widespread thread which has underpinned the whole Games: athleticism and pleasure.
We have been seeing the peak of human athleticism and bodily achievement combined in with all the feelings we as a species are able to, however maybe none extra so than pleasure. Seeing the glee on the girls’s hockey team’s faces and the freedom and fervour Liu confirmed in her free skate impressed numerous folks round the world – and might need even helped give a sure NCS sports activities editor sufficient of a jolt to push by means of the last three days of the Games.
I can’t wait to see what’s on the docket as we speak. Let’s get into it!