Olympics Day Guide: Feb. 19

I don't know how influential the United States was in getting some of the new events added, but so far, the Americans have been the big beneficiaries to the newest medals. Of the eight events that have been contested so far, the U.S. has taken eight medals, four of them gold. Who needs speedskating, am I right?

The latest was David Wise, who took the first-ever gold in freestyle ski halfpipe. For what it's worth, he also has an adorable baby.

Also for the U.S., Alex Deibold took bronze in men's snowboardcross. Fittingly, Norway took gold in the event named for it (Nordic Combined) and the Netherlands swept yet another contest in the sport that SHOULD be named for them (speedskating).

Medals Awarded Yesterday
Biathlon - Men's 15km Mass Start
Gold: Emil Hegle Svendsen (Norway)
Silver: Martin Fourcade (France)
Bronze: Ondrej Moravec (Czech Republic)

Nordic Combined - Large Hill
Gold: Joergen Graabak (Norway)
Silver: Magnus Hovdal Moan (Norway)
Bronze: Fabien Riessle (Germany)

Skiing - Women's Alpine Giant Slalom

Gold: Tina Maze (Slovenia)
Silver: Anna Fenninger (Austria)
Bronze: Viktoria Rebensburg (Germany)

Skiing - Men's Freestyle Halfpipe

Gold: David Wise (U.S.)
Silver: Mike Riddle (Canada)
Bronze: Kevin Rolland (France)

Snowboarding - Men's Snowboardcross

Gold: Pierre Vaultier (France)
Silver: Nikolay Olyunin (Russia)
Bronze: Alex Deibold (U.S.)

Speedskating - Women's 3000m Short Track Relay

Gold: South Korea
Silver: Canada
Bronze: Italy

Speedskating - Men's 10,000m

Gold: Jorrit Bergsma (Netherlands)
Silver: Sven Kramer (Netherlands)
Bronze: Bob de Jong (Netherlands)

Medal Count

                            G - S - B - Total
Netherlands          6 - 6 - 8 - 20
U.S.                     6 - 4 - 10 - 20
Russia                   5 - 8 - 6 - 19
Norway                7 - 4 - 7 - 18
Canada                 4 - 9 - 4 - 17

Germany               8 - 3 - 4 - 15

France                  3 - 1 - 5 - 9

Austria                  2 - 6 - 1 - 9

Sweden                2 - 5 - 2 - 9

Switzerland           5 - 2 - 1 - 8

Belarus                 5 - 0 - 1 - 6

China                    3 - 2 - 1 - 6

Slovenia                2 - 1 - 3 - 6

Czech Republic     1 - 3 - 2 - 6

Japan                    1 - 3 - 2 - 6

Italy                      0 - 2 - 4 - 6

Poland                  4 - 0 - 0 - 4

South Korea         2 - 1 - 1 - 4

Australia               0 - 2 - 1 - 3
Latvia                   0 - 1 - 2 - 3

Great Britain         1 - 0 - 1 - 2

Finland                 0 - 2 - 0 - 2
Slovakia               1 - 0 - 0 - 1

Croatia                 0 - 1 - 0 - 1
Ukraine                0 - 0 - 1 - 1
Kazakhstan          0 - 0 - 1 - 1

Medals Awarded Today

Biathlon - Mixed Relay

Bobsled - Women's

Cross Country - Women's Team Sprint

Cross Country - Men's Team Sprint

Skiing - Men's Alpine Giant Slalom

Snowboarding - Women's Parallel Giant Slalom

Snowboarding - Men's Parallel Giant Slalom

Speedskating - Women's 5000m

U.S.'s Best Chance to Medal

Ted Ligety gets another chance to live up to all those Nyquil commercials in the giant slalom, while the cross country women's team has an outside shot to medal in the sprint.

Televised Coverage

3 a.m. - Men's Hockey: Sweden vs. Slovenia (NBC Sports)

5 a.m. - Women's Curling: Great Britain vs. Canada (MSNBC)

5:30 a.m. - Snowboarding: women's parallel giant slalom

          Snowboarding: men's parallel giant slalom

          Cross Country: women's team sprint (NBC Sports)

7:30 a.m. - Men's Hockey: Finland vs. Russia (NBC Sports)

9 a.m. - Women's Curling: Sweden vs. Switzerland (MSNBC)

10 a.m. - Figure Skating: women's short program (NBC Sports)

11:45 a.m. - Figure Skating: women's short program (NBC Sports)

12 p.m. - Men's Hockey: USA vs. Czech Republic (USA)

12 p.m. - Men's Hockey: Canada vs. Latvia (MSNBC)

2:30 p.m. - Men's Curling: Sweden vs. Great Britain (MSNBC)

3 p.m. - Speedskating: women's 5000m

          Cross Country: women's team sprint

          Cross Country: men's team sprint (NBC)

5 p.m. - Men's Curling: Canada vs. China (CNBC)

8 p.m. - Skiing: men's alpine giant slalom

          Bobsled: women's

          Figure Skating: women's short program

          Snowboarding: men's parallel giant slalom (NBC)

          

Interesting Reads
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