At this time in a nutshell: The US males’s staff make an sudden ice hockey exit however American skiers declare a males’s slopestyle 1-2 as Norway proceed to dominate the medals
Subsequent up:There may be freestyle snowboarding, ice hockey, curling and brief monitor pace skating nonetheless to come back in the present day. Tomorrow: the finale of the Kamila Valieva present
A pair of Individuals topped the boys’s freeski slopestyle podium after Alex Corridor soared to Olympic gold forward of teammate Nick Goepper, who took the silver. Sweden’s Jesper Tjäder received the bronze forward of Andri Ragettli, the defending world champion from Switzerland. “It positively was the very best slopestyle run I’ve ever performed, primarily as a result of it embodied the whole lot I really like about snowboarding and the way I strategy snowboarding and I didn’t fade away from that to attempt to perhaps get larger scores or one thing,” Corridor stated.
Clement Noel of France got here from sixth place to take males’s slalom gold with a fully blistering second run. Austria’sJohannes Strolz received silver to go together with his gold within the mixed, ending 0.61 seconds behind Noel, whereas reigning world champion Sebastian Foss-Solevaag of Norway took bronze. “It’s not typically that you'll be able to win a medal within the Olympic Video games. It’s one shot – one minute and 40 seconds each 4 years,” Noel stated.
Dave Ryding’s dream of an Olympic medal of Nice Britain light away after a mistake on his opening run price him any probability of a podium end. “I'm all the time life like and whereas I'd like to say I’ll be again, I in all probability received’t be. However I’ll for positive take it 12 months by 12 months from now,” the 35-year-old stated.
There was an upset within the males’s ice hockey quarter-finals. Slovakia gambled whereas 2-1 all the way down to the USA by taking off their goaltender and throwing on an additional attacker, grabbed an equaliser with 43 seconds remaining, then received the dramatic shootout that adopted to get rid of the match’s unbeaten prime seeds. “This one’s going to sting for a bit of bit,” veteran US defenseman Steven Kampfer stated. “I assumed we have been the higher staff for a majority of the sport. You come up a bit of bit brief.”
The most recent set of spherical robin matches within the girls’s curling has seen Switzerland change into the primary nation to ebook their semi-final berth. Nevertheless a shock defeat by China leaves Nice Britain’s girls with one match to go which they need to win, and that also won't be sufficient if different outcomes don’t go their method. It was a a lot happier story for Group GB’s males. Victory over ROC means they are going to function within the semi-finals alongside Sweden and Canada. The ultimate spot within the males’s final 4 will go to the US if they will beat Denmark in tomorrow’s morning session.
Elvira Öberg anchored Sweden’s staff to gold within the girls’s 4 x 6km biathlon relay, snowboarding quick and capturing clear to win her third medal of the Video games. The athletes of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) have been second, Germany third. In cross-country snowboarding, Erik Valnes and Johannes Høsflot Klæbo took gold – Norway’s thirteenth gold of the Video games, persevering with their latest dominanceof the medal desk.
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After the brief program of the ladies’s single skating competitors yesterday, Kamila Valieva leads with a rating of 82.16, slightly below two factors away from her Russian compatriot, the world champion Anna Shcherbakova.
Jarl Magnus Riiber of Norway spent two weeks in Covid isolation, was set free on Monday, jumped into the lead within the Nordic mixed on Tuesday with an outstanding 142m leap, then took a fallacious flip on the cross-country leg, blowing his 44-second benefit and ending eighth. “It’s a foolish mistake,” Riiber stated afterwards. “It’s not enjoyable to indicate the world that I perhaps wasted a gold medal”. Riiber’s compatriot Joergen Graabak took the gold ultimately.
Mikaela Shiffrin was quickest in a downhill coaching session forward of Thursday’s Alpine mixed race. It’s a welcome little bit of cheer for an athlete who has had a torrid time in Beijing after arriving at these Video games on a wave of expectation.
Germany had the primary podium sweep in Beijing with all of the medals going to Germany within the two-man bobsleigh. Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis have been the profitable pairing.
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The briefing’s image of the day
It was the staff dash traditional day within the cross-country snowboarding. Germany’s duo of Katharina Hennig and Victoria Carl received the ladies’s occasion. ROC received the boys’s occasion. The British males did not qualify for the ultimate after they'd gear issue within the semi-final.
What to look out for subsequent
Occasions are all in native Beijing time. For Sydney it's +3 hours, for London it's -8 hours, for New York it's -13 hours and San Francisco is -16 hours.
Later in the present day – Wednesday 16 February
8pm Freestyle snowboarding – the ultimate run within the males’s aerials 🥇
8.05pm Curling – Group GB shall be anxiously watching tonight’s girls’s matches 🥌
8.32pm-9.18pm Quick monitor pace skating – the finals of the boys’s 5,000m relay – ought to be chaos – and the ladies’s 1,500m 🥇
9.30pm Ice hockey – the final of the boys’s quarter-finals options Sweden v Canada 🏒
Tomorrow – Thursday 17 February
9.05am and 2.05pm and 8.05pm Curling – after roughly 1,057 matches it's the remaining bits of the spherical robin stage, after which within the night it's the males’s semi-finals 🥇
9.30am-3.10pm Freestyle snowboarding – there’s motion all day however the principle attraction from 2pm onwards is the ladies’s ski cross which works from the quarter-finals to the ultimate 🥇
10.30am and 2pm Alpine snowboarding – it's the girls’s mixed – they do the downhill within the morning, the slalom within the afternoon 🥇
12.10pm Ice hockey – no shocks within the girls’s ice hockey the gold medal recreation shall be Canada v US 🥇
4pm and 7pm Nordic mixed – the groups do leaping first and cross-country 🥇
4.30pm Pace skating – the ladies’s 1,000m on the Nationwide Pace Skating Oval 🥇
6pm Determine skating – the conclusion of the ladies’s single skating with the free skating 🥇
Full Winter Olympics schedule | Outcomes, sport by sport | Medal desk
How issues stand
Right here’s what the emoji desk regarded like at 6.15pm Beijing time …
1 🇳🇴 Norway 🥇 13 🥈 7 🥉 8 whole: 28
2 🇩🇪 Germany 🥇 10 🥈 6 🥉 4whole: 20
3 🇺🇸 United States 🥇 8 🥈 7 🥉 4whole: 19
4 🇦🇹 Austria 🥇 6 🥈 7 🥉 4whole: 17
5 🇸🇪 Sweden 🥇 6 🥈 4 🥉 4whole: 14
6 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🥇 6 🥈 4 🥉 3whole: 13
7 🇨🇳 China 🥇 6 🥈 4 🥉 2whole: 12
8 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🥇 5 🥈 0 🥉 5whole: 10
9 ◻️ Not Russia 🥇 4* 🥈 8 🥉 11whole: 23
10 🇫🇷 France 🥇 4 🥈 7 🥉 2whole: 13
Chosen others
13 🇨🇦 Canada 🥇 2 🥈 4 🥉 11whole: 17
17 🇦🇺 Australia 🥇 1 🥈 2 🥉 1whole: 4
18 🇳🇿 New Zealand 🥇 1 🥈 1 🥉 0whole: 2
[*this total includes the team figure skating gold. which the IOC has said “will probably not be sorted out during this Games”]
The final phrase
I don’t know the way the Olympics recovers from this. It's surprising and it's disappointing. I don’t assume ever within the historical past of the Olympics someone with a constructive take a look at has been allowed to compete. All of our hearts are breaking that this can be a 15-year-old lady. It looks like she was taken benefit of and given this drug that she had no enterprise taking. What this says is that the staff round her are youngster abusers – US coach Adam Rippon, who received Olympic bronze 4 years in the past and now coaches Valieva’s competitor Mariah Bell.
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