While Shaun White and the U.S. men lost their dominance in the halfpipe, the women still remain a juggernaut. Kaitlyn Farrington took gold and mainstay Kelly Clark nabbed bronze (bookending Australia's equally dominant Torah Bright on the medal stand), marking the only additions to the medal count for the Americans on Wednesday.
The biggest and strangest news was that, for the first time ever, there was a tie in a downhill skiing event, with Slovenia's Tina Maze and Switzerland's Dominique Gisin crossing the finish line in the exact same time and thereby both are taking home golds.
The other big news for the U.S. was the barnburner of a battle with Canada in the first round of women's hockey. Canada came away with the 3-2 win, thereby winning their group, but the end wasn't without some controversy.
Medals Awarded Yesterday
Figure Skating - Pairs
Gold: Tatiana Volosozhar & Maxim Trankov (Russia)
Silver: Ksenia Stolbova & Fedor Klimov (Russia)
Bronze: Robin Szolkowy & Aliona Savchenko (Germany)
Luge - Doubles
Gold: Tobias Arlt & Tobias Wendl (Germany)
Silver: Andreas Linger & Wolfgang Linger (Austria)
Bronze: Andris Sics & Juris Sics (Latvia)
Nordic Combined - Individual Normal Hill
Gold: Eric Frenzel (Germany)
Silver: Akito Watabe (Japan)
Bronze: Magnus Krog (Norway)
Skiing - Women's Alpine Downhill
Gold: Tina Maze (Slovenia)
Gold: Dominique Gisin (Switzerland)
Bronze: Lara Gut (Switzerland)
Snowboarding - Women's Halfpipe
Gold: Kaitlyn Farrington (U.S.)
Silver: Torah Bright (Australia)
Bronze: Kelly Clark (U.S.)
Speedskating - Men's 1000m
Gold: Stefan Groothuis (Netherlands)
Silver: Denny Morrison (Canada)
Bronze: Michel Mulder (Netherlands)
Medal Count
G - S - B - Total
Norway 4 - 3 - 5 - 12
Canada 4 - 4 - 2 - 10
Netherlands 4 - 2 - 4 - 10
U.S. 3 - 1 - 5 - 9
Russia 2 - 4 - 3 - 9
Germany 6 - 1 - 1 - 8
Austria 1 - 4 - 0 - 5
Switzerland 3 - 0 - 1 - 4
Slovenia 1 - 1 - 2 - 4
Sweden 0 - 3 - 1 - 4
France 1 - 0 - 2 - 3
Czech Republic 0 - 2 - 1 - 3
Japan 0 - 2 - 1 - 3
Italy 0 - 1 - 1 - 2
Belarus 1 - 0 - 0 - 1
Poland 1 - 0 - 0 - 1
Slovakia 1 - 0 - 0 - 1South Korea 1 - 0 - 0 - 1
Australia 0 - 1 - 0 - 1
Finland 0 - 1 - 0 - 1
China 0 - 1 - 0 - 1
Great Britain 0 - 0 - 1 - 1
Latvia 0 - 0 - 1 - 1
Ukraine 0 - 0 - 1 - 1
Medals Awarded Today
Biathlon - Men's Individual 20km
Cross Country - Women's 10km Classic
Skiing - Men's Freestyle Slopestyle
Luge - Team Relay
Speedskating - Women's 500m Short Track
Speedskating - Women's 1000m
U.S.'s Best Chance to Medal
Nick Goepper and Bobby Brown could go one-two in slopestyle skiing, while speedskater Heather Richardson gets another chance to medal in the 1000m.
Televised Coverage
3 a.m. - Men's Hockey: Finland vs. Austria (NBC Sports)
5 a.m. - Men's Curling: USA vs. Great Britain (USA)
5:30 a.m. - Cross Country: women's 10km classic
Skeleton: women's (NBC Sports
7:30 a.m. - Men's Hockey: USA vs. Slovakia (NBC Sports)
7:30 a.m. - Men's Hockey: Russia vs. Slovenia (MSNBC)
10 a.m. - Figure Skating: men's short program (NBC Sports)
10 a.m. - Men's Curling: Canada vs. Denmark (MSNBC)
11:45 a.m. - Figure Skating: men's short program (NBC Sports)
12 p.m. - Men's Hockey: Canada vs. Norway (USA)
12 p.m. - Women's Hockey: Sweden vs. Russia (MSNBC)
3 p.m. - Biathlon: men's individual 20km
Luge: team relay (NBC)
5 p.m. - Women's Curling: USA vs. Japan (CNBC)
8 p.m. - Skiing: men's freestyle slopestyle
Speedskating: women's 1000m
Skeleton: women's (NBC)
Interesting Reads
The Boston Globe revisits the 1980 Miracle on Ice game from the perspective of Soviet goalie Vladislav Tretiak.
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