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Team USA grabbed one medal from each pile today... all in one event. That pushed the Americans into a tie for second with the Dutch. Germany still leads the gold medal count with seven -- three more than anyone else. Luckily for the Germans, their overall medal count is enough to put them in our pretty little table, because they are now tied for fifth. Tied with Canada, who took a precipitous fall down the table after a day without standing on a podium at all. And behind Germany and Canada, it's a long, long fall to the next entry on the list. All of this means that rather than the top five, we now present you with your top SIX, and it'll likely stay that way until things shake up further:
| COUNTRY | G | S | B | TOTAL |
| Norway | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| Netherlands | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| United States | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| Russia | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
| Canada | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| Germany | 7 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
Results:
Alpine Skiing:
No events today.
Biathlon:
| MEN'S 20k | |||
| GOLD | Martin Fourcade | France | 49:31.7 |
| SILVER | Erik Lesser | Germany | 49:43.9 |
| BRONZE | Evgeniy Garanichev | Russia | 50:06.2 |
Lowell Bailey had a good event for Team USA, finishing in 8th. Tim Burke was 44th, Russell Currier 50th, and Leif Nordgren 83rd.
Bobsled:
Begins next Sunday.
Cross-Country:
| LADIES' 10k CLASSIC | |||
| GOLD | Justyna Kowalczyk | Poland | 28:17.8 |
| SILVER | Charlotte Kalla | Sweden | 28:36.2 |
| BRONZE | Therese Johaug | Norway | 28:46.1 |
American Sadie Bjornsen finished 18th, while Sophie Caldwell, Ida Sargent, and Holly Brooks finished in a pack, 32nd, 34th, and 35th.
Curling:
| WOMEN'S ROUND ROBIN | ||
| SESSION 5 | ||
| Canada | 8-5 | Denmark |
| Great Britain | 8-7 | China |
| Sweden | 9-8 | Switzerland |
| MEN'S ROUND ROBIN | ||
| SESSION 6 | ||
| Russia | 7-6 | Switzerland |
| Canada | 7-6 | Denmark |
| Sweden | 5-4 | Norway |
| Great Britain | 5-3 | USA |
| WOMEN'S ROUND ROBIN | ||
| SESSION 6 | ||
| Korea | 8-4 | Russia |
| Sweden | 7-6 | Denmark |
| Canada | 8-5 | Switzerland |
| USA | 8-6 | Japan |
Figure Skating:
| MEN'S (short program) | |||
| 1 | Yuzuru Hanyu | Japan | 101.45 |
| 2 | Patrick Chan | Canada | 97.52 |
| 3 | Javier Fernandez | Spain | 86.98 |
Overshadowing the actual results: Evgeny Plyushchenko took a jump in warm-ups, winced, and reached for his back. The legendary Russian skater withdrew from the competition, leaving Russia with nobody to even compete for the podium. Hanyu became the first skater to score over 100 points in the short program under the current scoring system. American Jason Brown is in sixth; the other American in the competition, Jeremy Abbott, is in 15th. Abbott took a huge and somewhat scary fall early in his program.
Freestyle Skiing:
| MEN'S SKI SLOPESTYLE | |||
| GOLD | Joss Christensen | USA | 95.80 |
| SILVER | Gus Kenworthy | USA | 93.60 |
| BRONZE | Nicholas Goepper | USA | 92.40 |
All four Americans moved on to the finals, with Christensen taking the top qualifying score. Goepper was 5th, Kenworthy 6th, and Bobby Brown 12th. Christensen and Goepper nailed the top two scores in the first run of the final, and Kenworthy slipped in between them on the second run. Norway's Andreas Haatveit was the only other competitor to even post a 90. Brown finished in 9th, with a 78.40 in the second run.
Ice Hockey:
| WOMEN'S GROUP B | ||
| Germany | 4-0 | Japan |
| Russia | 3-1 | Sweden |
Thus endeth the trick. Err, rather, the round-robin phase of the women's competition. Russia will play Switzerland in the quarterfinals; the winner moves on to play Canada, the loser drops into the consolation bracket and plays Germany. Sweden takes on Finland, with the winner meeting Team USA and the loser going up against Japan.
| MEN'S GROUP A | ||
| USA | 7-1 | Slovakia |
| Russia | 5-2 | Slovenia |
After a slow first period punctuated only by an early John Carlson goal, Slovakia got on the board 24 seconds into the second when Marion Hossa fed Tomas Tatar. After that, Team USA just exploded all over the helpless Slovakians, dumping six goals in the net before the second period ended and forcing Slovakia to pull Jaroslav Halak midway through the period. Paul Statsny, playing against half of his father's former country, scored twice for the Americans; Patrick Kane and James Van Riemsdyk had two assists apiece. Ryan Kesler, David Backes, Phil Kessel, and Dustin Brown also netted goals for the good guys. Jonathan Quick, in his first-ever international start, got the win.
Meanwhile, Ziga Jeglic scored twice for Slovenia against their Russian hosts. The problem: Russia scored five times, starting with Alexander Ovechkin's goal a mere 1:17 into the contest. Ovechkin assisted a couple of minutes later, when Yevgeny Malkin, who also had two assists on the night, scored to put Russia up 2-0. Ilya Kovalchuk, Valeri Nichuskin, and Anton Belov also scored for Russia, and Alexei Tereshchenko added a pair of assists.
| MEN'S GROUP B | ||
| Finland | 8-4 | Austria |
| Canada | 3-1 | Norway |
A hattrick for Austria's Michael Grabner wasn’t enough to stave off the Finnish assault. Three Finnish goals in less than three minutes spanning the first intermission saw to that. Mikael Granlund and Jarkko Immonen each scored twice for Finland, and Sami Vatanen had three assists. Teemu Selanne, older than the hills, got a first-period assist before leaving with an injury.
In the other Group B matchup, Canada was in solid control throughout. Shea Weber and Jamie Benn scored in the second period, with Patrice Bergeron assisting on both goals, Duncan Keith and Drew Doughty each assisting on one. Late in the period, Keith got called for holding; Norway's Patrick Thoreson converted that into a power play goal 22 seconds after the intermission. But Doughty answered just over a minute later, and that was all she wrote.
Luge:
| TEAM RELAY | |||
| GOLD | Geisenberger - Loch Wendl/Arlt |
Germany | 2:45.649 |
| SILVER | Ivanova - Demchenko Denisyev/Antonov |
Russia | 2:46.679 |
| BRONZE | Tiruma - Rubenis Sics/Sics |
Latvia | 2:47.295 |
Team USA finished 8th, after Erin Hamlin got the team off to a great start finishing 2nd in the women's singles leg. Chris Mazdzer was 6th in the men's singles leg, and the pair of Christian Niccum and Jayson Terdiman were 7th. The Germans won all three legs, and the Russians placed in the top three in each leg. Latvia didn't finish in the top three of any of them, but their 5-4-4 positioning was sufficient to claim third.
Nordic Combined:
No events today.
Short Track:
| LADIES 500m | |||
| GOLD | Jianrou Li | China | 45.263 |
| SILVER | Arianna Fontana | Italy | 51.250 |
| BRONZE | Seung-Hi Park | Korea | 54.207 |
Great Britain's Elise Chrstie was disqualified in the final. As to events prior: Emily Scott, the only American to have escaped the qualifying heats, was knocked out in the quarterfinals. In the Men's 1000m qualifying heats, J.R. Celski took first place in his group, while Chris Creveling and Eduardo Alvarez each finished second in their respective races. All three advance to Saturday's semifinals. In the semifinals of the Men's 5000m relay, the Netherlands, Kazakhstan, Russia, and China advanced on position... and Team USA advanced to the final because they were impeded by the Koreans. Like that's never happened before.
Skeleton:
| WOMEN'S SKELETON (after 2 heats) | |||
| 1 | Elizabeth Yarnold | Great Britain | 1:56.89 |
| 2 | Noelle Pikus-Pace | USA | 1:57.33 |
| 3 | Elena Nikitina | Russia | 1:57.44 |
| 4 | Katie Uhlaender | USA | 1:57.58 |
Great showing for Team USA on day one of the Skeleton as both American sliders are in the top four. The final two runs, and the medals, are tomorrow.
Ski Jumping:
No events today.
Snowboard:
No events today.
Speed Skating:
| LADIES' 1000m | |||
| GOLD | Hong Zhang | China | 1:14.02 |
| SILVER | Ireen Wust | Netherlands | 1:14.69 |
| BRONZE | Margot Boer | Netherlands | 1:14.90 |
Zhang blew away the field. For perspective, American Heather Richardson finished 7th, and was closer to winning the silver than Wust was to winning the gold. Brittany Bowe finished 8th, and was closer to the podium than Boer was to gold. The other Americans weren't so lucky; Sugar Todd and Kelly Gunther were both more than five seconds off the gold medal pace, and finished in 32nd and 33rd, respectively.
Looking ahead:
Here's today's schedule. ALL events are available live via streaming at NBCOlympics.com, so long as you're a customer of a participating cable, satellite or FIOS provider. All times Central. Medal events listed in BOLD.
DELAYED BROADCAST INFO: The following tags apply to the listed time windows on your local NBC station:
| NBC Daytime | 2:00pm-4:00pm |
| NBC Primetime | 7pm-10:30pm (replayed midnight-3:30am) |
| NBC Latenight | 11pm-midnight |
Be aware that NBC proper IS NOT SHOWING ANY LIVE COVERAGE OF THESE OLYMPICS.
Alpine Skiing:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | USA Participants |
| MEN'S SUPER COMBINED (downhill) | 1:00am | none | NBC Primetime | Bode Miller - Jared Goldberg Ted Ligety - Andrew Weibrecht |
| MEN'S SUPER COMBINED (slalom) | 5:30am | none | NBC Primetime | Bode Miller - Jared Goldberg Ted Ligety - Andrew Weibrecht |
Biathlon:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | USA Participants |
| WOMEN'S 15k | 8:00am | none | NBC Daytime | none |
Cross-Country:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | USA Participants |
| MEN'S 15k CLASSIC | 4:00am | NBCSN | none | Eric Bjornsen - Brian Gregg Kris Freeman - Noah Hoffman |
Curling:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | Matches |
| MEN'S SESSION 7 | 11:00pm | none | USA-GER, 2:00am, NBCSN | Sweden-China USA-Germany Canada-Norway |
| WOMEN'S SESSION 7 | 4:00am | USA-DEN, USA | none |
USA-Denmark Great Britain-Japan Korea-China Russia-Switzerland |
| MEN'S SESSION 8 | 9:00am | none | RUS-USA, 4:00pm, USA | Russia-USA China-Norway Great Britain-Denmark Switzerland-Germany |
Figure Skating:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | USA Participants |
| MEN'S FREE SKATE | 9:00am | NBCSN | NBC Primetime | Jeremy Abbott - Jason Brown |
Freestyle Skiing:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | USA Participants |
| LADIES' AERIALS (qualification) | 7:45am | none | NBC Daytime | Ashley Caldwell Emily Cook |
| LADIES' AERIALS (final) | 11:30am | none | NBC Primetime | TBD |
Ice Hockey:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | Match |
| MEN'S GROUP C | 2:00am | MSNBC | * | Czech Republic-Latvia |
| MEN'S GROUP C | 6:30am | NBCSN | * | Sweden-Switzerland |
| MEN'S GROUP B | 11:00am | MSNBC | * | Norway-Finland |
| MEN'S GROUP B | 11:00am | USA | * | Canada-Austria |
| Two matches will re-air at 2:00pm and 4:00pm on NBCSN. | ||||
Luge:
no events today.
Nordic Combined:
no events today.
Short Track:
no events today.
Skeleton:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | USA Participants |
| MEN'S SKELETON (heat one) | 6:30am | none | NBC Latenight | Matthew Antone John Daly - Kyle Tress |
| MEN'S SKELETON (heat two) | 8:00am | none | NBC Latenight | Matthew Antone John Daly - Kyle Tress |
| WOMEN'S SKELETON (heat three) | 9:40am | none | NBC Primetime | Noelle Pikus-Pace Katie Uhlaender |
| WOMEN'S SKELETON (heat four) | 10:50am | none | NBC Primetime | Noelle Pikus-Pace Katie Uhlaender |
Ski Jumping:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | USA Participants |
| MEN'S LARGE HILL (qualification) | 11:30am | none | 1:15pm, NBCSN NBC Latenight |
Peter Frenette - Nicholas Fairall Nicholas Alexander - Anders Johnson |
Snowboard:
no events today.
Speed Skating:
no events today.
IF YOU INTEND TO WATCH TAPE-DELAYED COVERAGE, DON'T LOOK AT THE COMMENTS AFTER 11pm. YOU HAVE BEEN DULY WARNED.
