Olympics news, live updates: U.S. now has its most gold medals in a single Winter Games, will look to add USA hockey gold on Sunday

After three runs, Germany holds the highest three spots in the 4-man bobsled competitors. The group of Francesco Friedrich, Matthias Sommer, Alexander Schuller and Felix Straub are in first place.

Team USA has the ninth and tenth spots with the group of Frankie Del Duca, Boone Niederhofer, Bryan Sosoo and Joshua Williamson the closest.

Li Fanghui places China in the primary two spots after scoring a 91.50 on her second run. She and Eileen Gu are one and two.

Zoe Atkin adopted and hit the sting of the pipe as she tried to land an alley-oop, inflicting her to lose each skis as she landed. She will get a “DNI” for her second run, although did attain 5.4 meters on one in every of her jumps.

Shaking off her first run, Eileen Gu rebounded with a robust second run. She landed the alley-oop that she missed the primary time, although didn’t get fairly as excessive along with her jumps as Zoe Atkin did on her first run.

Gu scores a 94.00 to transfer into first with Atkin nonetheless to go.

After ending first in qualifying, Great Britain’s Zoe Atkin stays in prime type on her first run in the ladies’s freeski halfpipe ultimate.

She obtained nice amplitude, reaching 4.5 metres on her highest soar.

Eileen Gu’s first run in the ladies’s freeski halfpipe ultimate will be a throwaway. She earned a 30.00 after pulling out on the run after a shaky touchdown on her first trick.

Canada’s Kate Fraser scored an 85.00 on her first run and is at the moment in first. USA’s Kate Gray positioned seventh with a 44.50.

We have some additional Winter Olympics motion on this ultimate day with the ladies’s halfpipe ultimate, which was delayed yesterday due to snow.

Representing China, that is Eileen Gu’s final likelihood to go away the Milan Cortina Games with a gold medal after she gained silver in Slopestyle and Big Air. She is defending the gold she gained in Beijing.

Americans Kate Gray and Svea Irving will compete in the occasion for Team USA. But Zoe Atkin — American, however competing for Great Britain — may be Gu’s prime challenger at present. Atkin completed first in qualifying, whereas Gu positioned fifth.

The showdown that the hockey world has waited a dozen years to see once more on an Olympic stage is lastly right here.

It’s the U.S. vs. Canada in Sunday’s gold-medal match. The stakes couldn’t probably be any increased.

“This is the pinnacle of the sport, this is as good as it gets,” American ahead Matthew Tkachuk mentioned.

Then, maybe forgetting that the puck will drop at 8:10 a.m. ET, Tkachuk added optimistically, “There will not be one TV without this game on in the United States and Canada. That should get you pretty fired up.”

The Americans haven’t gained Olympic gold in males’s hockey because the iconic “Miracle on Ice” 46 years in the past. They final reached the gold-medal match in Vancouver in 2010 when Sidney Crosby’s extra time objective lifted host Canada to victory in what stays the most-watched TV broadcast in that hockey-obsessed nation’s historical past.

While nine-time champion Canada gained the final two instances the Olympics featured NHL gamers in 2010 and 2014, a best-on-best U.S. victory on Sunday wouldn’t be a miracle. The Americans got here to Milan with a roster overflowing with NHL expertise and the unwavering perception that it’s finally their time once more.

Many of Sunday’s key gamers have been additionally on the ice final February when the U.S. and Canada break up a pair of tense, hard-fought video games on the 4 Nations Face-Off. The Americans gained the round-robin matchup in a recreation that started with three fights in the opening 9 seconds. Connor McDavid’s extra time objective secured revenge for the Canadians in the ultimate simply a few days later.

Will Canada have a good time Olympic gold for the tenth time? Or will the U.S. finish its decades-long drought? Let’s address five key questions about Sunday’s blockbuster gold-medal match.

It’s exhausting to consider, however the Milan Cortina Olympics are coming to an finish. The Closing Ceremony is on Sunday in Verona, Italy, the place Team USA will be led by two of its brightest stars.

It was announced Friday that U.S. girls’s hockey hero Hilary Knight and ice dance icon Evan Bates will carry the American flag in the course of the ceremony.

Knight, fittingly often known as “Captain America,” is coming off a dramatic win over Team Canada in the gold-medal game. The U.S. was trailing 1-0 with a bit greater than two minutes left in regulation on Thursday. That was, earlier than the 36-year-old Knight scored a game-tying and record-breaking objective to power extra time.

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The United States set a new American file for gold medals gained at a Winter Olympics on Saturday. And it got here from a self-discipline the place Team USA hadn’t had any success earlier in the Games.

After disappointing performances in the person aerials occasions, the blended group of Kaila Kuhn, Connor Curran and Chris Lillis obtained to take house some {hardware}, defending the gold medal Team USA gained in this occasion 4 years in the past in Beijing.

It was the eleventh gold of those Games for the U.S., topping its earlier Winter Olympics file set in Salt Lake City 24 years in the past.

After a disappointing end to his Olympics competitors, Ilia Malinin put collectively a stellar rebound efficiency in Saturday’s gala.

Finland takes the bronze medal in the boys’s ice hockey event with a 6-1 win over Slovakia.

Canada took down Great Britain with a hard-fought 9-6 win in Saturday’s gold medal match. It’s the fifth curling gold medal for the Canadian males and first since 2014. Great Britain has but to win the occasion.

Team USA’s Kaillie Armbruster-Humphries and Jasmine Jones earned bronze in the two-women bobsled occasion, sustaining their third-place standing by means of the fourth and ultimate run of the competitors.

Sebastian Aho tapped the puck in previous Slovakia goalie Samuel Hlavaj to give Finland a 1-0 in the primary interval of the boys’s hockey bronze medal recreation.

Team USA seems to be in fine condition for a medal in 2-women bobsled after the primary three heats of the occasion.

The duo of Kaillie Armbruster-Humphries and Jasmine Jones at the moment holds the third spot, five-tenths of a second behind the No. 2 spot. Kaysha Love and Azaria Hill are positioned fifth, whereas Elana Meyers Taylor and Jadin O’Brien are sixth.

Germany holds the highest two spots and three of the highest 4 with Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi main the sphere.

Sunday, the ultimate day of this yr’s Olympics, will characteristic yet another occasion, and that’s as a result of Saturday’s freeski girls’s halfpipe ultimate has been postponed due to a snowstorm.

The controversial Eileen Gu and Team USA’s Svea Irving and Kate Gray, in addition to Great Britain’s Zoe Atkin, will have to wait a bit longer.

Eight years in the past in Pyeongchang, Mia Manganello gained a bronze medal in group pursuit.

On Saturday, she gained bronze once more, this time in a person speedskating occasion — not simply any however the mass begin, which she positioned fourth in in the course of the 2022 Beijing Games.

For extra on her efficiency, go here.