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And suddenly, yesterday's co-leaders aren't in the lead at all anymore. Russia picked up three medals to vault into the lead, but they lost something which probably makes that small comfort. The Dutch snagged a pair to pull into a tie for second. Norway, tied for the lead with the USA last night, is now all the way down in fourth after a day bereft of visits to the podium. Germany also grabbed a pair, pushing Canada to the bottom of what is still a very clearly-defined top six:
| COUNTRY | G | S | B | TOTAL |
| Russia | 4 | 6 | 5 | 15 |
| Netherlands | 4 | 4 | 6 | 14 |
| United States | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 |
| Norway | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| Germany | 7 | 3 | 2 | 12 |
| Canada | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 |
Results:
Alpine Skiing:
| WOMEN'S SUPER G | |||
| GOLD | Anna Fenninger | Austria | 1:25.52 |
| SILVER | Maria Hoefl-Riesch | Germany | 1:26.07 |
| BRONZE | Nicole Hosp | Austria | 1:26.18 |
American Julia Mancuso finished 8th, and Leanne Smith was 18th. Laurenne Ross and Stacey Cook did not finish.
Biathlon:
No events today.
Bobsled:
Begins... holy crap, tomorrow, finally.
Cross-Country:
| LADIES' RELAY 4x5k | |||
| GOLD | A. Haag - I. Ingemarsdotter C. Kalla - E. Wiken |
Sweden | 53:02.7 |
| SILVER | A. Kylloenen - K. Lahteenmaki K. Niskanen - A. Saarinen |
Finland | 53:03.2 |
| BRONZE | S. Boehler - N. Fessel D. Herrmann - C. Nystad |
Germany | 53:03.6X |
Team USA (Kikkan Randall, Sadie Bjornsen, Elizabeth Stephen, and Jessica Diggins) finished in ninth place, two and a half minutes behind the lead.
Curling:
| WOMEN'S ROUND ROBIN | ||
| SESSION 8 | ||
| China | 7-6 | Sweden |
| Canada | 8-6 | Japan |
| Great Britain | 10-8 | Korea |
| MEN'S ROUND ROBIN | ||
| SESSION 9 | ||
| China | 9-6 | Russia |
| Canada | 7-5 | Great Britain |
| Switzerland | 9-3 | Denmark |
| Sweden | 8-4 | Germany |
| WOMEN'S ROUND ROBIN | ||
| SESSION 9 | ||
| Sweden | 7-6 | USA |
| Canada | 5-3 | Russia |
| Switzerland | 8-6 | Great Britain |
| Denmark | 9-6 | China |
Today's men's results clinched semifinal berths for China and Sweden, and eliminated Denmark, Russia, and Switzerland. Germany was already toast. In the women's field, Canada clinched a semifinal berth today; Denmark and the USA have been eliminated.
Figure Skating:
No events today.
Freestyle Skiing:
No events today.
Ice Hockey:
| WOMEN'S QUARTERFINALS | ||
| Sweden | 4-2 | Finland |
| Switzerland | 2-0 | Russia |
Excitement in the first game, as Sweden took a 2-1 lead with 14:51 to play only to allow Finland to re-tie the game 12 seconds later. A power play inside of five minutes let Sweden retake the lead, and fantastic defense as Finland tried to equalize with an extra attacker in the final minute resulted in a transition goal into an empty net. Pernilla Winberg had three assists for Sweden, whose reward for winning today is to get thrown onto the ice against Team USA in the semifinals. Finland will face Germany in the consolation bracket.
Stefanie Marty scored for the Swiss midway through the first, and that was all they'd need; a Lara Stalder empty-netter with 21 seconds left condemned the Russian women to no medal. Switzerland will be perfectly content to have a shot at the bronze after they most likely get crushed again by Canada in the semis; Russia falls to the consolation bracket where they'll face Japan.
| MEN'S GROUP A | ||
| Slovenia | 3-1 | Slovakia |
| USA | 3-2 (so) | Russia |
The matinee featured 40 minutes of scoreless hockey followed by a Slovenian explosion. Rok Ticar, Tomaz Razingar, and Anze Kopitar scored for the Slovenes, and only a power play goal by Tomas Jurco with 18 seconds to play prevented Robert Kristan from keeping a clean sheet. Zdeno Chara finally showed up on the scoresheet with that goal.
The other Group A game, on the other hand, can only be described with one word: Epic.
Pavel Datsyuk scored twice for Russia, midway through both the second and third periods; in between, Cam Fowler and Joe Pavelski scored for Team USA. A Russian goal was disallowed in the last few minutes because the net was off its moorings, and the Americans came up empty on a power play in the final two minutes, which sent the game to overtime. The overtime passed without scoring, so the game had to go to shootout.
T.J. Oshie scored on the first shot, and then after both teams missed twice, Ilya Kovalchuk saved the Russians by finding the net. After three shooters, there's no restriction on who can shoot; Oshie took every shot for the Americans from that point. Both teams missed in the fourth round; in the fifth and sixth, Datsyuk and Kovalchuk both scored, but Oshie answered each time. After Datsyuk and Oshie both missed in round seven, Kovalchuk missed to start round eight...
...and then Oshie ended it. Team USA is through to the quarterfinals; Russia is also through unless Canada and Finland also go to overtime tomorrow, in which case goal differential will come into play.
| MEN'S GROUP C | ||
| Switzerland | 1-0 | Czech Republic |
| Sweden | 5-3 | Latvia |
Jonas Hiller got his second straight shutout, and Simon Bodenmann gave the Swiss all they needed. In the other game, Sweden took only a single shot in each of four consecutive power play opportunities, and scored on all of them. Patrik Berglund, Erik Karlsson, Daniel Alfredsson, Jimmie Ericsson, and Alexander Edler who apparently isn't anyone's son scored for the Swedes, and Daniel Sedin had two assists. Lauris Darzins, Janis Sprukts, and Zemgus Girgensons found the net for Latvia.
Group C is done. Sweden advances straight to the quarterfinals; Switzerland's not going to be the lucky loser unless Russia loses to Slovakia and the Finland-Canada game is decided by eight goals. Somehow, that seems to be unlikely.
| MEN'S GROUP C FINAL STANDINGS | ||||
| TEAM | W-L-OTW-OTL | PTS | GF-GA | DIFF |
| Sweden | 3-0-0-0 | 9 | 10-5 | +5 |
| Switzerland | 2-1-0-0 | 6 | 2-1 | +1 |
| Czech Republic | 1-2-0-0 | 3 | 6-7 | -1 |
| Latvia | 0-3-0-0 | 0 | 5-10 | -5 |
Luge:
No events today.
Nordic Combined:
No events today.
Short Track:
| LADIES' 1500m | |||
| GOLD | Yang Zhou | China | 2:19.140 |
| SILVER | Suk Hee Sim | Korea | 2:19.239 |
| BRONZE | Arianna Fontana | Italy | 2:19.416 |
Alyson Dudek was eliminated in the heats, but Jessica Smith and Emily Scott advanced. Smith bowed out there, and Scott would have, but she was impeded by Korean Ha-Ri Cho and was moved on to the final... where she got in another crash thanks to Korean Alang Kim, who was disqualified. Scott finished fifth. Smith took 7th, and Dudek 24th.
| MEN'S 1500m | |||
| GOLD | Viktor An | Russia | 1:25.325 |
| SILVER | Vladimir Grigorev | Russia | 1:25.399 |
| BRONZE | Sjinkie Knegt | Netherlands | 1:25.611 |
The entire American team was eliminated in the quarterfinals. Chris Creveling and Eduardo Alvarez finished third in their runs, and J.R. Celski didn't finish his. Creveling officially finished tenth, Alvarez 11th, Celski 13th. In the final, to the surprise of absolutely nobody, Korean Da Woon Sin was disqualified.
Skeleton:
| MEN'S SKELETON | |||
| GOLD | Alexander Tretiakov | Russia | 3:44.29 |
| SILVER | Martins Dukurs | Latvia | 3:45.10 |
| BRONZE | Matthew Antione | USA | 3:47.26 |
Tretiakov set the start time record on his first run, and then tied it... on every run. His start time on all four runs was exactly the same. That's consistency. American John Daly, who'd finished the second heat in bronze medal position, swapped places with Antoine after the third run, then nearly wiped out right at the start of the last slide when he popped out of the start groove. He finished at 3:49.11, in 15th place.
Ski Jumping:
| MEN'S LARGE HILL | |||
| GOLD | Kamil Stoch | Poland | 278.7 |
| SILVER | Noriaki Kasai | Japan | 277.4 |
| BRONZE | Peter Prevc | Slovenia | 274.8 |
Americans Nicholas Fairall and Nicholas Alexander failed to qualify for the final, and Anders Johnson was disqualified.
Snowboard:
No events today.
Speed Skating:
| MEN'S 1500m | |||
| GOLD | Zbigniew Brodka | Poland | 1:45.006 |
| SILVER | Koen Verweij | Netherlands | 1:45.009 |
| BRONZE | Denny Morrison | Canada | 1:45.22 |
Three one-thousandths of a second. The width of a skate blade. That was the difference between gold and silver. As for Team USA, their travails continue. Brian Hansen was 7th, Shani Davis 11th, Joey Mantia 22nd, and Jonathan Kuck 37th.
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-5:00pm |
| NBC Primetime | 6pm-10:00pm (replayed 11:30pm-3:30am) |
| NBC Latenight | 10:30pm-11:30pm |
It's Sunday! You get a whole extra HOUR of NBC Daytime! And also an extra half-hour of Primetime. If you've gotten used to the evening schedule, be aware that it starts an hour earlier, and that Latenight and the Primetime replay are half an hour earlier.
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 G | midnight | none | NBC Primetime | Bode Miller - Travis Ganong Ted Ligety - Andrew Weibrecht |
Biathlon:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | USA Participants |
| MEN'S 15k MASS START | 9:00am | none | 1:00pm, NBCSN NBC Latenight |
Tim Burke Lowell Bailey |
Bobsled:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | USA Participants |
| TWO-MAN (heats 1-2) | 10:15am | none | NBC Primetime | United States 1: Steven Holcomb - Steven Langton United States 2: Cory Butner - Chris Fogt United States 3: Nick Cunningham - Dallas Robinson |
Cross-Country:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | USA Participants |
| MEN'S RELAY 4x10k | 4:00am | NBCSN | NBC Daytime | Andrew Newell - Erik Bjornsen Noah Hoffman - Simeon Hamilton |
Curling:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | Matches |
| MEN'S SESSION 10 | 11:00pm | none | 2:00am, USA-CAN, NBCSN |
USA-Canada Sweden-Russia Great Britain-Norway |
| WOMEN'S SESSION 10 | 4:00am | USA-CAN, MSNBC | none |
USA-Canada Sweden-Russia Denmark-Korea Japan-Switzerland |
| MEN'S SESSION 11 | 9:00am | none | 3:00pm, USA-SWE, CNBC | China-Canada USA-Sweden Norway-Switzerland Germany-Denmark |
Figure Skating:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | USA Participants |
| ICE DANCE (short program) | 9:00am | NBCSN | NBC Primetime | Maia Shibutani/Alex Shubutani Madison Chock/Evan Bates Meryl Davis/Charlie White |
Freestyle Skiing:
No events today.
Ice Hockey:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | Match |
| WOMEN'S CLASSIFICATIONS | 2:00am | none | * | Finland-Germany |
| MEN'S GROUP B | 2:00am | USA | * | Austria-Norway |
| MEN'S GROUP A | 6:30am | USA | * | Russia-Slovakia |
| MEN'S GROUP A | 6:30am | 6:00am, NBCSN | * | Slovenia-USA |
| WOMEN'S CLASSIFICATIONS | 11:00am | none | * | Russia-Japan |
| MEN'S GROUP B | 11:00am | USA | * | Finland-Canada |
| One match will re-air at 2:00pm on NBCSN. At 3:30pm on NBCSN, yesterday's USA-Russia game will re-air in its entirety. |
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Luge:
No events today.
Nordic Combined:
No events today.
Short Track:
No events today.
Skeleton:
No events today.
Ski Jumping:
No events today.
Snowboard:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | USA Participants |
| LADIES' SNOWBOARD CROSS (seeding) |
1:00am | none | none | Lindsay Jacobellis - Faye Gulini Jacqueline Hernandez |
| LADIES' SNOWBOARD CROSS (quarterfinals) |
3:15am | none | NBC Daytime | TBD |
| LADIES' SNOWBOARD CROSS (semifinals) |
3:30am | none |
NBC Daytime or NBC Primetime |
TBD |
| LADIES' SNOWBOARD CROSS (final) | 3:40am | none | NBC Primetime | TBD |
Speed Skating:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | USA Participants |
| LADIES' 1500m | 7:30am | none | NBC Primetime | Heather Richardson Jilleanne Rookard - Brittany Bowe |
IF YOU INTEND TO WATCH TAPE-DELAYED COVERAGE, DON'T LOOK AT THE COMMENTS AFTER 11pm. YOU HAVE BEEN DULY WARNED.
