Olympics Day Guide: Feb. 20

If Ted Ligety had a cold on Wednesday, he didn't let it show, thanks to Nyquil and thanks to the adrenaline of dominating the men's giant slalom en route to a gold medal. The run was an historic one, as Ligety became the first American man to win two gold medals in an alpine skiing event, this one coming eight years after winning the super combined at the Turin Games.

In women's bobsledding, while the U.S. didn't take the gold, they made up for it in quantity, as the Americans grabbed both silver and bronze. The silver-medal-winning team of Elana Meyers and Lauryn Williams was especially historic, as Meyers won bronze in the event four years ago and Williams became only the second U.S. athlete to medal in both the Summer and Winter Games. The silver medalist in the 100m at the Athens Games and gold medalist in the 4x100m relay in London joins an elite club with only Eddie Eagan - gold in boxing in 1920, gold in bobsled in 1932 - as the other member.

Media darlings Bode Miller, perhaps in an effort to avoid post-race interviews, and Lolo Jones failed to medal.

Finally, the U.S. continued its run in men's hockey, defeating David Krejci and the Czech Republic, 5-2, to advance to the next round of playoffs.

Medals Awarded Yesterday
Biathlon - Mixed Relay
Gold: Norway
Silver: Czech Republic
Bronze: Italy

Bobsled - Women's
Gold: Kaillie Humphries & Heather Moyse (Canada)
Silver: Elana Meyers & Lauryn Williams (U.S.)
Bronze: Aja Evans & Jamie Greubel (U.S.)

Cross Country - Women's Team Sprint

Gold: Norway
Silver: Finland
Bronze: Sweden

Cross Country - Men's Team Sprint

Gold: Finland
Silver: Russia
Bronze: Sweden

Skiing - Men's Alpine Giant Slalom

Gold: Ted Ligety (U.S.)
Silver: Steve Missillier (France)
Bronze: Alexis Pinturault (France)

Snowboarding - Women's Parallel Giant Slalom

Gold: Patrizia Kummer (Switzerland)
Silver: Tomoka Takeuchi (Japan)
Bronze: Alena Zavarzina (Russia)

Snowboarding - Men's Parallel Giant Slalom

Gold: Vic Wild (Russia)
Silver: Nevin Galmarini (Switzerland)
Bronze: Zan Kosir (Slovenia)

Speedskating - Women's 5000m

Gold: Martina Sablikova (Czech Republic)
Silver: Ireen Wust (Netherlands)
Bronze: Carien Kleibeuker (Netherlands)

Medal Count

                            G - S - B - Total

U.S.                     7 - 5 - 11 - 23
Russia                   6 - 8 - 7 - 22
Netherlands          6 - 7 - 9 - 22
Norway                9 - 4 - 7 - 20
Canada                 5 - 9 - 4 - 18

Germany               8 - 3 - 4 - 15

France                  3 - 2 - 6 - 11

Sweden                2 - 5 - 4 - 11

Switzerland           6 - 3 - 1 - 10

Austria                  2 - 6 - 1 - 9

Czech Republic     2 - 4 - 2 - 8

Slovenia                2 - 1 - 4 - 7

Japan                    1 - 4 - 2 - 7

Italy                      0 - 2 - 5 - 7

Belarus                 5 - 0 - 1 - 6

China                    3 - 2 - 1 - 6

Poland                  4 - 0 - 0 - 4

South Korea         2 - 1 - 1 - 4

Finland                 1 - 3 - 0 - 4
Australia               0 - 2 - 1 - 3
Latvia                   0 - 1 - 2 - 3

Great Britain         1 - 0 - 1 - 2

Slovakia               1 - 0 - 0 - 1

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

Medals Awarded Today

Curling - Women's

Figure Skating - Women's

Skiing - Men's Freestyle Skicross

Skiing - Women's Freestyle Halfpipe

Hockey - Women's

Nordic Combined - Team

U.S.'s Best Chance to Medal

Well, the U.S. women are in the gold medal game for hockey, so I'd say they have a pretty good shot of taking home a medal. The Americans and the Canadians have been in a class of their own throughout these Games, so it will be interesting to see them challenge each other.

The women freestyle skiers also have a shot to medal in the halfpipe, as Maddie Bowman is the favorite and Devin Logan, who already has a silver in slopestyle, has a shot to add to her hardware.

Televised Coverage

3 a.m. - Nordic Combined: Team

          Women's Curling: Great Britain vs. Switzerland Bronze Medal Game (NBC Sports)

7 a.m. - Women's Hockey: Switzerland vs. Sweden Bronze Medal Game (NBC Sports)

10 a.m. - Figure Skating: Women's (NBC Sports)

12 p.m. - Women's Hockey: USA vs. Canada Gold Medal Game (NBC)

2 p.m. - Skiing: men's freestyle skicross (NBC Sports)

5 p.m. - Women's Curling: Sweden vs. Canada Gold Medal Game (CNBC)

8 p.m. - Skiing: women's freestyle halfpipe

          Skiing: men's freestyle skicross

          Figure Skating: women's (NBC)

Interesting Reads

Here's an interesting piece on the figure skating coach who has a reputation for creating champions. He also added a glitch for his latest pupil, Gracie Gold, by coming down with a terrible nosebleed before her short program performance on Wednesday.

To get your political blood boiling, the IOC rejected Ukraine's request to wear black armbands to commemorate the deaths of protesters and police in Kiev. This is after they also rejected requests by multiple athletes to wearing stickers in honor of late Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke and reprimanded members of the women's Norwegian cross country team for wearing black armbands to support a teammate whose brother died.