Day 9 of the 2026 Winter Olympics did not carry any new medals for the United States, however there have been a number of main group wins of be aware to maintain the Americans in place to add to that depend within the coming days. A couple of U.S. stars failed to attain the rostrum on Sunday.
Here are the highest 5 tales of the day:
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U.S. curling rallies to beat China
The round-robin session is much from over, however the American women’s curling team picked up a thrilling comeback win over China on Sunday.
The four-person group of Tabitha Peterson, Cory Thiesse, Tara Peterson and Taylor Anderson-Heide rallied out of a 4-1 gap after the fifth finish to one way or the other beat the Chinese group, 6-5. Two of the factors got here within the final two ends.
Rui Wang missed her try to get a U.S. stone out of place within the ninth, which tied the matchup heading into the ultimate finish. While China constructed a complete wall across the button, Tabitha one way or the other bought her stone via visitors to field Wang out. Wang then left her final stone in the back of the home, unable to get sufficient of a push on it, to enable the U.S. to get a stone closest to the middle to steal the ultimate level, and the match.
The U.S. now sits at 4-1, which has them second within the standings behind solely Sweden. The Americans will tackle Italy on Monday.
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While this did not influence the Americans immediately, the curling dishonest scandal continued on Sunday. World Curling made changes to its umpiring setup for the remainder of the occasion after each Canada’s ladies’s group and Great Britain’s males’s group had stones pulled from the sheet.
More disappointment for Mikaela Shiffrin
Mikaela Shiffrin’s Olympic struggles proceed. After failing to medal in six occasions in Beijing (2022), Shiffrin began her Milan Cortina video games with a disappointing slalom run in the team combined event final week. Her effort there knocked her and teammate Breezy Johnson off the rostrum after Johnson put them in gold-medal place with a first-place end within the downhill part.
On Sunday, Shiffrin finished off the podium again with an Eleventh-place end within the big slalom. She stood in seventh place after the primary of two runs and fell 4 spots after the second.
Italy’s Federica Brignone received her second gold medal of the Games (super-G) within the occasion.
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Shiffrin, in the meantime, maintained a optimistic perspective on social media after the competitors.
Giant slalom is just not Shiffrin’s energy. But her end off the rostrum places her one race away from ending a second consecutive Olympics with out a medal.
Shiffrin is extensively thought-about the best ladies’s Alpine skier within the historical past of the game with an unequalled World Cup report. Her Olympic legacy already options two gold medals and one silver from Sochi in 2014 and Pyeongchang in 2018.
But she’s now competed in eight consecutive Olympics occasions with out a podium. She has yet another probability in these Games. She’ll compete in her speciality on Wednesday as a favourite to take house gold within the slalom.
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Beijing gold medalist Erin Jackson finishes off podium
Four years in the past, Erin Jackson was topped the world’s quickest lady on skates with a gold medal in 500-meter pace skating on the Beijing Olympics.
She’s since relinquished that title to Dutch skater Femke Kok, who set a brand new world report within the occasion in November. And on Sunday, Kok secured Olympic gold with an Olympic-record time of 36.49, a full 0.66 seconds forward of her Dutch teammate and silver medalist, Jutta Leerdam.
Jackson, in the meantime, completed off the rostrum. Japan’s Miho Takagi received bronze with a time of 37.27, .05 seconds forward of Jackson’s fifth-place time of 37.32. Italy’s Serena Pergher completed fourth (37.30).
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Kok squared off in opposition to Jackson in a head-to-head race of the world-record holder and the reigning Olympic champion.
Jackson appeared to get off to a greater begin off the gun. But Kok had secured the lead by the primary flip that she expanded on the again stretch. When Kok took the within lane for the ultimate flip, she was in management.
It was a disappointing end off the rostrum for Jackson, however her outstanding Olympic legacy is safe. With her gold in Beijing, Jackson turned the first Black woman to win an individual Winter Olympics medal in any sport. She did so having transitioned to the game comparatively late from her profession as an inline curler skater.
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Men’s hockey beats Germany
The U.S. men’s hockey team handled business with Germany on Sunday evening. The Americans rolled to a simple 5-1 win after a primary interval wherein they had been held scoreless up till the ultimate seconds. It was Zach Werenski who bought the U.S. on the board with simply 8.7 seconds left within the interval.
While the Americans have not misplaced but, they haven’t really impressed, either. They may face a lot harder competitors within the quarterfinals, the place they’re going to get the winner of a knockout-round matchup between Sweden and Latvia.
Canada, in the meantime, has outscored its three group-stage opponents 20-3 — greater than residing up to the gold-medal favourite title it is held thus far in these Games.
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Two American groups in high 10 in determine skating
It might not have been the very best begin, however two American duos are in place after Day 1 of pairs determine skating in Milan.
Danny O’Shea and Ellie Kam posted a season-best 71.87 of their quick program outing on Sunday to open the competitors. That bought the pair, which already received gold within the group competitors, in seventh within the standings. Spencer Akira Howe and Emily Chan weren’t far behind with a gap rating of 71.06, which has them in ninth.
The German pair of Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin took a commanding lead with an 80.01 of their quick program, practically 5 full factors forward of the following closest group.
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It will probably take a major push for both American group to make the rostrum after Monday’s free skate. The Americans have not received a medal in pairs since 1988, both. While it may have been higher, the United States is not out of it on the ice simply but.
Team USA medals stay at 17
Highlight of the day
Dual moguls are chaos.
Japan’s Ikuma Horishima botched the touchdown on his final bounce within the males’s spherical of 16 Sunday, then bounced again up to ski backward over the end line. And he nonetheless received.
Horishima, snowboarding on the appropriate within the video beneath, began to lose management of his run after the primary of two jumps. But he did not miss a gate and recovered in time to hit the ramp for his second.
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He crash landed on the bounce, however maintained his downhill momentum and popped again up snowboarding backward earlier than the end line, the place he crossed simply forward of USA’s Nick Page.
It turned out that he did not want to cross first as Page missed a gate throughout his personal rocky run and was disqualified. As lengthy as Horishima accomplished a authorized run, he can be declared the winner.
It all added up to a wild end. Horishima rode the win all the best way to the gold-medal race, the place he misplaced to Canada’s Mikaël Kingsbury to end in silver-medal place.
One More Thing: A silver-medal tie
Thea Louise Stjernesund (Norway) and Sara Hector (Sweden) every received a silver medal on Sunday in a uncommon tie. (Michael Kappeler/image alliance through Getty Images)
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Thea Louise Stjernesund and Sara Hector pulled off a uncommon feat on Sunday within the ladies’s big slalom. They posted the very same time, and left the mountain sharing a silver medal.
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Stjernesund, of Norway, and Hector, of Sweden, completed with the very same time in each runs of the enormous slalom on Sunday in wild vogue. The two had been in whole lockstep. That gave them every the silver medal behind Italy’s Federica Brignone.
While sharing an Olympic medal might not all the time be obtained nicely, the 2 appeared completely thrilled by their end.
“We win together, for sure,” Hector mentioned, via Reuters. “It’s like they say, feelings are better when they are shared.”