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The top four all had a huge day, and they're starting to pull away from the pair below them... to the point where we're almost of a mind to drop Germany from the table. Three medals each for Team USA and Russia, a pair each for the Netherlands and Norway, and one for Canada leave us with today's top six:
| COUNTRY | G | S | B | TOTAL |
| United States | 7 | 5 | 11 | 23 |
| Netherlands | 6 | 7 | 9 | 22 |
| Russia | 6 | 9 | 7 | 22 |
| Norway | 9 | 4 | 7 | 20 |
| Canada | 5 | 9 | 4 | 18 |
| Germany | 8 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
Results:
Alpine Skiing:
| MEN'S GIANT SLALOM | |||
| GOLD | Ted Ligety | USA | 2:45.29 |
| SILVER | Steve Missillier | France | 2:45.77 |
| BRONZE | Alexis Pinturault | France | 2:45.64 |
Ligety finished the first run atop the leaderboard, and stayed there to become the first American to win gold in the giant slalom as well as the first American male to win two golds in Alpine. As for the other Americans, Tim Jitloff finished 15th, Jared Goldberg 19th, and Bode Miller 20th. Miller injured himself during the second run; as a result, he withdrew from the slalom event, and the legend's Olympic career comes to a close.
| MIXED RELAY | |||
| GOLD | Tora Berger Tiril Eckhoff Ole Einar Bjoerndalen Emil Hegle Svendsen |
Norway | 1:09:17.0X |
| SILVER | Veronika Vitkova Gabriela Soukalova Jaroslav Soukup Ondrej Moravec |
Czech Republic | 1:09:49.6X |
| BRONZE | Dorothea Wierer Karin Oberhofer Domink Windisch Lukas Hofer |
Italy | 1:10:15.2 |
Ole Einar Bjorndalen wins his 7th career Olympic gold medal, and his 13th career medal overall. Team USA (Susan Dunklee, Hannah Dreissigacker, Tim Burke, and Lowell Bailey) finished 9th. They were fourth after Dunklee's leg, but things went as they usually do for the Americans in biathlon after that.
Bobsled:
| WOMEN'S BOBSLED (heats 3-4) | |||
| GOLD | Kaillie Humphries Heather Moyse |
Canada 1 | 3:50.61 |
| SILVER | Elana Meyers Lauryn Williams |
USA 1 | 3:50.71 |
| BRONZE | Jamie Greubel Aja Evans |
USA 2 | 3:51.61 |
So close. On a track which was decidedly slower on the day's second run than on the first, USA 1 had a pretty decent run in heat four compared to the rest of the field... except for Canada 1, who somehow managed to beat them by a quarter of a second in heat four. USA 3 (Jazmine Fenlator and Lolo Jones) finished 11th, and once again the problem was not the start time. So don't be hatin' on Lolo.
Cross-Country:
| LADIES' TEAM SPRINT CLASSIC | |||
| GOLD | Ingvild Oestberg Marit Bjoergen |
Norway | 16:04.05 |
| SILVER | Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Kerttu Niskanen |
Finland | 16:13.14 |
| BRONZE | Ida Ingemarsdotter Stina Nilsson |
Sweden | 16:23.82 |
Team USA (Sophie Caldwell and Kikkan Randall) finished third in their semifinal run, and qualified for the final as Lucky Losers. They finished in eighth place.
| MEN'S TEAM SPRINT CLASSIC | |||
| GOLD | Iivo Niskanen Sami Jauhojaervi |
Finland | 23:14.89 |
| SILVER | Maxim Vylegzhanin Nikita Kruikov |
Russia | 23:15.86 |
| BRONZE | Emil Joensson Teodor Peterson |
Sweden | 23:30.01 |
Team USA, Simeon Hamilton and Erik Bjornson, finished sixth.
Curling:
| WOMEN'S SEMIFINALS | ||
| Canada | 6-4 | Great Britain |
| Sweden | 7-5 | Switzerland |
| MEN'S SEMIFINALS | ||
| Canada | 10-6 | China |
| Great Britain | 6-5 | Sweden |
Canada will meet Sweden for the women's gold; Great Britain faces Switzerland for the bronze. In the men's group, Great Britain scored a pair in the final end to come from behind and nip Sweden. They'll face Canada for the gold, while Sweden takes on China for bronze.
Figure Skating:
| LADIES' (short program) | |||
| 1 | Yuna Kim | Korea | 74.92 |
| 2 | Adelina Sotnikova | Russia | 74.64 |
| 3 | Carolina Kostner | Italy | 74.12 |
| 4 | Gracie Gold | USA | 68.63 |
| 5 | Yulia Lipnitskaya | Russia | 65.23 |
| 6 | Ashley Wagner | USA | 65.21 |
| 7 | Polina Edmunds | USA | 61.04 |
I took the table all the way up to seven to include all the Americans, but also to illustrate that something just doesn't seem quite right here. That's a massive gap between third and fourth, and this is a situation where 4-5-6 were strong contenders for medals. It's going to be hard to make up that gap in the free skate, although anything's possible.
Freestyle Skiing:
No events today.
Ice Hockey:
| MEN'S QUARTERFINALS | ||
| (1) Sweden | 5-0 | (9) Slovenia |
| (4) Finland | 3-1 | (5) Russia |
| (3) USA | 5-2 | (6) Czech Republic |
| (2) Canada | 2-1 | (10) Latvia |
Slovenia gave Sweden a run for their money through almost 50 minutes, only trailing 2-0 after an Alexander Steen power play goal late in the first period and a Daniel Sedin score early in the third. Then, with 12 minutes to go, the wheels fell off. Loui Eriksson scored for the Swedes, then Carl Hagelin added a pair to bury Slovenia. Henrik Lundqvist recorded a shutout. Erik Karlsson had a pair of assists, and familar names Daniel Alfredsson and Nicklas Backstrom each contributed to the cause as well.
Juhamatti Aaltonen, the ageless Teemu Selanne, and Mikael Granlund scored to push Finland into the semifinals against Sweden. Selanne and Granlund each added an assist, as did Kimmo Timonen and Petri Kontiola. Those three goals answered the opening salvo from the Russians, who scored first when Pavel Datsyuk fed Ilya Kovalchuk midway through the first period. Tuukka Rask kept the net empty the rest of the way.
Team USA ripped the Czech Republic behind five different scorers. David Backes had a goal and an assist, and James van Riemsdyk, Duston Brown, Phil Kessel, and (finally getting on the scoresheet) Zach Parise also hit the net. Ryan Suter and Ryan Kesler each had a pair of assists, along with singles from Patrick Kane, Ryan McDonagh, Joe Pavelski, and Kevin Shattenkirk. All the Czechs could muster was a pair of unassisted goals from Ales Hemsky. The Americans get a semifinal date with...
...Canada, who survived a ridiculous goaltending performance from Latvia's Kristers Gudlevskis and a furious late flurry spearheaded by Sandis Ozolinsh to advance. Patrick Sharp scored early for the Canadians, helped by Rick Nash, but Lauris Darzins answered for Latvia less than two minutes later, with assists from Arturs Kulda and Janis Sprukts. The two teams then locked horns ineffectually for over 37 minutes before Drew Doughty and Jonathan Toews fed Shae Weber to put the Canadians ahead 2-1. Latvia pressed Carey Price relentlessly for the next seven minutes, but Price was up to the task and Canada held on for the win.
Luge:
All events completed.
Nordic Combined:
No events today.
Short Track:
No events today.
Skeleton:
All events completed.
Ski Jumping:
All events completed.
Snowboard:
| LADIES' PARALLEL GIANT SLALOM | ||
| GOLD | Patrizia Kummer | Switzerland |
| SILVER | Tomoka Takeuchi | Japan |
| BRONZE | Alena Zavarzina | Russia |
No American women even qualified for the event. Zavarzina's husband is...
| MEN'S PARALLEL GIANT SLALOM | ||
| GOLD | Vic Wild | Russia |
| SILVER | Nevin Galmarini | Switzerland |
| BRONZE | Zan Kosir | Slovenia |
...Vic Wild, and if you're wondering how in hell a Russian is named Vic Wild, it's because he's not Russian. He's an American who married Zavarzina and ran off to Russia because he was frustrated with US support for his sport. So the USOC basically cost the USA a medal here. As for the actual American in the field, Justin Reiter finished 24th in the qualifying heat of the men's event, and failed to advance.
Speed Skating:
| LADIES' 5000m | |||
| GOLD | Martina Sablikova | Czech Republic | 6:51.54 |
| SILVER | Ireen Wust | Netherlands | 6:54.28 |
| BRONZE | Carien Kleibeuker | Netherlands | 6:55.66 |
Maria Lamb, Team USA's only entry, finished 16th (and last).
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 | 11:00am-2:00pm |
| NBC Primetime | 7pm-10:30pm (replayed 1:00am-4:30am) |
| NBC Latenight | midnight-1:00am |
Note time change for NBC Daytime, which will air the women's hockey gold medal game live.
Be aware that NBC proper IS NOT SHOWING ANY LIVE COVERAGE OF THESE OLYMPICS except the Hockey gold medal games.
Alpine Skiing:
No events today.
Biathlon:
No events today.
Bobsled:
No events today.
Cross-Country:
No events today.
Curling:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | Matches |
| WOMEN'S BRONZE MEDAL GAME | 2:30pm | NBCSN* | none | Great Britain-Switzerland |
| WOMEN'S GOLD MEDAL GAME | 7:30am | none | 4:00pm, CNBC | Sweden-Canada |
| * Window shared with Nordic Combined. | ||||
Figure Skating:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | USA Participants |
| LADIES' (free skate) | 9:00am | NBCSN | NBC Primetime | Ashley Wagner - Gracie Gold Polina Edwards |
Freestyle Skiing:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | USA Participants |
| MEN'S SKI CROSS (qualification) | 1:45am | none | none | John Teller |
| MEN'S SKI CROSS (1/8) | 3:30am | none | none | John Teller |
| MEN'S SKI CROSS (quarterfinals) | 4:05am | none | 1:00pm, NBCSN | TBD |
| MEN'S SKI CROSS (semifinals) | 4:25am | none | 1:00pm, NBCSN | TBD |
| MEN'S SKI CROSS (final) | 4:41am | none | NBC Primetime | TBD |
| LADIES' SKI HALFPIPE (qualification) | 8:30am | none | NBC Primetime | Maddie Bowman - Angeli VanLaanen Annalisa Drew - Brita Sigourney |
| LADIES' SKI HALFPIPE (final) | 11:30am | none | NBC Primetime | TBD |
Ice Hockey:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | Match |
| WOMEN'S BRONZE MEDAL GAME | 6:00am | NBCSN | * | Switzerland-Sweden |
| WOMEN'S GOLD MEDAL GAME | 11:00am | NBC Daytime | * | Canada-USA |
| Today's matches will re-air at 2:00pm and 4:00pm on NBCSN. | ||||
Luge:
All events completed.
Nordic Combined:
| Event | Time (CT) | Live TV | Delayed TV | USA Participants |
| TEAM LARGE HILL/4x5k (jumping) | 2:00am | NBCSN* | NBC Latenight | Todd Lodwick Taylor Fletcher Bill DeMong Bryan Fletcher |
| TEAM LARGE HILL/4x5k (10k) | 6:00am | none | NBC Latenight | Todd Lodwick Taylor Fletcher Bill DeMong Bryan Fletcher |
| * Window shared with Women's Curling Bronze Medal Game. | ||||
Short Track:
No events today.
Skeleton:
All events completed.
Ski Jumping:
All events completed.
Snowboard:
No events today.
Speed Skating:
No events today.