Bring On The Cats - Winter Olympics 2014 - SochiA Kansas State Wildcats Blog -- Carrying the Banner Highhttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47995/bringoncats_fave.png2014-02-23T13:32:18-06:00http://www.bringonthecats.com/rss/stream/51560852014-02-23T13:32:18-06:002014-02-23T13:32:18-06:00Sochi 2014: Day 17 Recap and Final Analysis
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<img alt="The final medal for the United States." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/X0BUhCc662bPlqfVzTsUeP2e64s=/13x0:3986x2649/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/29064685/474380761.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>The final medal for the United States. | Adam Pretty</figcaption>
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<p>Seventeen days have come and gone, and we've finally reached the finish line.</p> <p>With a final charge, the Russians emphatically declared victory in their own Olympics. Until yesterday, they'd only held the daily medal count lead a couple of times, always surrendering it the following day; until yesterday, they'd never led the gold medal count at all. With a pair of golds and a total of four medals today, they claimed both titles... and they close with the largest medal lead anyone had the entire festival. As this is the final day, we dispense with the top five and present you a full list -- the top 26.</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>RANK</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">13</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>33</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
<td>United States</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">12</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>28</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
<td>Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>26</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>4</b></td>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>25</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>5</b></td>
<td>Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>24</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>6</b></td>
<td>Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>19</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>7</b></td>
<td>Austria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>17</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>8t</b></td>
<td>France</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>15</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>8t</b></td>
<td>Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>15</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>10</b></td>
<td>Switzerland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>11</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>11</b></td>
<td>China</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>9</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>12t</b></td>
<td>Korea</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>8</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>12t</b></td>
<td>Czech Republic</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>8</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>12t</b></td>
<td>Slovenia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>8</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>12t</b></td>
<td>Japan</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>8</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>12t</b></td>
<td>Italy</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>8</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>17t</b></td>
<td>Belarus</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>6</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>17t</b></td>
<td>Poland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>6</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>19</b></td>
<td>Finland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>5</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>20t</b></td>
<td>Great Britain</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>4</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>20t</b></td>
<td>Latvia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>4</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>22</b></td>
<td>Australia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>23</b></td>
<td>Ukraine</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>24t</b></td>
<td>Slovakia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>24t</b></td>
<td>Croatia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>24t</b></td>
<td>Kazakhstan</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<h5>
<br>Results:</h5>
<p><b>Bobsled</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;">
<b>MEN'S FOUR-MAN</b> (heats 3-4)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Alexey Negodaylo<br>Dmitry Trunenkov<br>Alexey Voevoda<br>Alexander Zubkov</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia 1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:40.60</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Daumants Dreiskens<br>Oskars Melbardis<br>Janis Strenga<br>Arvis Viklaste</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Latvia 1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:40.69</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td><b>Steven Holcomb<br>Curtis Tomasevicz<br>Steven Langton<br>Chris Fogt</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA 1</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:40.99</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>USA 2 (Nick Cunningham, Justin Olsen, Johnny Quinn, and Dallas Robinson) finished in 12th place.</p>
<p><b>Cross-Country</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S 50k MASS START</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Alexander Legkov</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:46:55.2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Maxim Vylegzhanin</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:46:55.9</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Ilia Chernousov</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:46:56.0</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Just 7.5km back, things looked a lot different. American Noah Hoffman had been running in the top four, with the exception of a slip back into the pack between the 25-35km marks caused by Michail Semenov of Belarus and then Finland's Matti Heikkinen making early breaks for the lead (which naturally caused both skiiers to run out of gas and fall back later). At 42.5km, Hoffman was in second place, less than a second off the lead. But the Russians gather to make a charge, and buried the field in the final three kilometers. Hoffman ended up in 26th place, 1:09 off the lead (but still within the main chase pack, so good on him). Brian Gregg ended up in 51st, and Kris Freeman was 57th. Torin Koos, the fourth American entry, did not start the race.</p>
<p><b>Ice Hockey</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S GOLD MEDAL GAME</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3-0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Sweden</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><span>Jonathan Toews</span>, <span>Sidney Crosby</span>, and <span>Chris Kunitz</span> all scored their first goals of the Olympics, and <span>Carey Price</span> kept the Canadian net free of intrusion, to lead Canada to yet another hockey gold. <span>Jeff Carter</span> and <span>Shea Weber</span> assisted on the Toews goal; the other two were unassisted.</p>
<p>One unpleasant note; Sweden's Nicklas Backstrom was declared ineligible to compete in today's game due to a failed doping test; he apparently took one too many Zyrtec D for his allergies, and tested above the threshold for pseudoephedrine. Sweden's furious, but they should really be turning their ire on their team doctor. Both he and Backstrom were perfectly aware that the medication contained a banned substance, and that it was okay to use up to a point. They passed that point. Clearly, Backstrom wasn't trying to gain any competitive advantage, but pseudoephedrine is banned for a reason: people <i>do</i> abuse it as a PED. It's a shame that Backstrom went over the allowable limit, but if his disqualification for the gold medal game is a farce, then the only argument should be that the limit is too low.</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;" colspan="5"><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>PLAYER</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>A</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>PTS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b><span>Phil Kessel</span></b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>8</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Erik Karlsson</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>8</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span>Mikael Granlund</span></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Finland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>7</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span>Michael Grabner</span></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Austria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>6</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span>Drew Doughty</span></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>6</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span>Teemu Selanne</span></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Finland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>6</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span>Alexander Radulov</span></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>6</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shea Weber</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>6</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span>Pavel Datsyuk</span></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>6</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Kessel and Grabner led all scorers with five goals. Finland's Sami Vatanen, who had no goals to go with his five assists, was the tournament's leading helper.</p>
<h5>Final Event Recap:</h5>
<p>Breakdowns of the medal counts in each individual discipline, and words:</p>
<p><b>Alpine Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Austria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>9</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United States</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>5</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Switzerland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Slovenia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>France</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Italy</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Croatia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>The Austrian alpine team, so disappointed in Vancouver, reestablished their dominance of the sport in a big way, nearly doubling the USA's medal count. It didn't seem like that successful an Olympics in Alpine for the Americans, but viewed through this lens it wasn't bad at all. In fact, compared to Vancouver nobody can truly be too disappointed; Team USA was the only contingent to take home more than two fewer medals than they did four years ago. We bid a fond farewell to former bad-boy and now American skiing statesman Bode Miller, who bows out of competition after representing the United States in five <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/winter-olympics">Winter Olympics</a>.</p>
<p><b>Biathlon</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>6</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Czech Republic</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>5</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Belarus</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>4</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>France</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>4</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>4</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ukraine</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Austria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Slovakia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Switzerland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Italy</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Slovenia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>There were few surprises here, but the one we did get was big. The Czechs, after not even medaling in Vancouver, finished second in the event overall. The Americans didn't medal, and still never have, but their performance was much improved. The biggest news from biathlon, however, was the final appearance of the legendary Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, who steps out of the spotlight as the most-decorated athlete in the history of the Winter Games. He's now part of the Olympics forever, being one of the two athletes elected to the IOC at the conclusion of the games.</p>
<p><b>Bobsled</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United States</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>4</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Latvia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Switzerland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Team USA won the bobsled medal count -- and averaged more than a medal per event -- without <i>winning</i> any of the three events. The Russians won't be heartbroken over losing the overall, having won two golds. The big disappointment: Germany, winners of three medals in Vancouver, came up empty.</p>
<p><b>Cross-Country</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>11</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>11</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>5</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Finland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Switzerland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Poland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>France</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Slovenia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>What a shocking outcome. The American drought continues; it's now been 38 years since Bill Koch won silver in the Men's 30k at Innsbruck in 1976, which remains the only USA medal in the discipline. It was especially disappointing given that American Kikkan Randall was actually a favorite in the sprint event, having won the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/world-cup-2014">World Cup</a> title this year, and her elimination by a mere 5/100 of a second in the qualifications was heartbreaking. Also disappointed: Germany, who only one a single bronze medal after taking five medals home from Vancouver.</p>
<p><b>Curling</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Great Britain</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>One senses a pattern here. The big winner, if there can be one in an event with two sets of medals, is the British; they finally win a men's medal after being shut out since 1924, and the women medaled for the first time since Salt Lake City. Switzerland and Norway, both men's medalists in three of the past five games, were locked out this year, so they're obviously displeased. And the travails of the American teams continue apace.</p>
<p><b>Figure Skating</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>5</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United States</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Japan</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Korea</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Italy</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Kazakhstan</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>The usual hijinx were alleged, of course, and nobody is happy, naturally, and it won't matter in the long run, obviously. The games were a big success for the hosts, and for Kazakhstan, who inexplicably medaled in a sport nobody ever expected them to. For the Americans, the doldrums in which their singles and pairs skaters find themselves mired is troubling. The last time the USA failed to medal in singles: 1936. The Asian rise in the sport failed to progress, as Japan and Korea actually combined for one fewer medal than they had at Vancouver, but they're both clearly a permanent force to consider. As for farewells, we can't forget that we saw four-time Olympian Evgeni Pluyshenko leave the ice for the final time in his Olympic career... this time, during warmups when he injured his back, which cost the Russians any chance of medaling in the men's singles.</p>
<p><b>Freestyle Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>9</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United States</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>7</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>France</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>5</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Belarus</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Australia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>China</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Japan</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Four new events -- the Ski Halfpipe and Ski Slopestyle -- swelled the total medal count from 18 to 30 this year, allowing lots of chances for countries to get on the board. The Canadians and Americans have to be pleased with their performances; and the French are certainly ecstatic over their medal sweep in Men's Ski Cross. Norway, meanwhile, was the only team to medal more than once in Vancouver yet be shut out in Sochi, so they're not at all thrilled.</p>
<p><b>Ice Hockey</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United States</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Finland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Switzerland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Canadians: happy as clams. Switzerland: thrilled at a bronze. USA: irritated as hell, but at least the women won silver. Russia: Putin may be killing people with his bare hands as we speak. Meanwhile, we say goodbye to lots of folks who've been around ever since the Olympics began allowing professionals, but none moreso than Finland's Teemu Selanne, who didn't just show up for a token appearance -- he ended up among the scoring leaders for the entire tournament. The final punctuation for hockey: Canadian Hayley Wickenheiser was the other athlete elected to the IOC.</p>
<p><b>Luge</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>5</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Latvia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Austria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Italy</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United States</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Just a run-of-the-mill Olympics in luge for the Germans. The Russians, who did not medal in Vancouver, have to be content with their showing, and a medal for the United States was a pleasant happenstance. Disappointed? Nobody. Everyone who won a medal in Vancouver won as many (or more) in Sochi, thanks to the addition of the team relay event.</p>
<p><b>Nordic Combined</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>4</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Japan</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Austria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>A huge, huge disappointment for Team USA in this event. The Americans were in Norway's position in Vancouver, grabbing a gold and three silvers; they came up empty this year. Norway, on the other hand, can exult, having been shut out in Vancouver and rebounding for a big games in Sochi. Germany also performed much better this Olympics than last, when all they came away with was a single bronze.</p>
<p><b>Short Track</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>China</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>6</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>5</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Korea</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>5</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Italy</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United States</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Another massive disappointment for the Americans, salvaged only by a crash between the Dutch and Chinese in the Men's 5000m relay. Korea will also be displeased with their overall results, having won eight medals in Vancouver. Russia, however, was the big winner: they went from being shut out in 2010 to five medals on home ice. This event will be absolutely insane in four years. Be ready.</p>
<p><b>Skeleton</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United States</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Great Britain</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Latvia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>In a sport with only two medal events, it's really easy to see who won and lost compared to prior results. Team USA did not medal in 2010, so their silver and bronze can be considered a huge success. Russia doubled their medal count, while Canada and Germany won three medals between them in Vancouver, and struck out in Sochi.</p>
<p><b>Ski Jumping</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Poland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Austria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Japan</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Slovenia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>France</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Weird medal distribution. There were four events; Germany and Poland won all the gold, but five other teams split the eight silver and bronze medals. The event was an unqualified success for Slovenia and Japan, neither of whom medaled in Vancouver but who each picked up a pair here. Switzerland, on the other hand, suffers the disappointment of no medal after Simon Ammann took two golds in 2010.</p>
<p><b>Snowboard</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United States</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>5</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>4</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Switzerland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Japan</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Austria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>France</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Slovenia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Czech Republic</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Australia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Finland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Great Britain</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>The medal count exploded in Snowboard from 18 to 30; just as with Freestyle Skiing, this was the result of adding two events (Parallel Slalom and Slopestyle). As a result, even though Team USA matched their 2010 medal count, it's a bit of a disappointing final tally. Of course, had Vic <span class="sbn-auto-link">Wild</span> not defected to Russia, it would he five golds and seven medals... and Russia would not have improved from one medal in Vancouver to four at home. Switzerland, Japan, Germany, and Slovenia will all be happy at their results, having not medaled in 2010 (or, in the case of Japan and Slovenia, ever before).</p>
<p><b>Speed Skating</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>23</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Poland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Czech Republic</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Korea</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>China</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Well, we know who's happy here, don't we? One of the most dominating performances ever by a single nation in a single sport. The Poles have to be thrilled to triple their 2010 medal total in the face of such a display, and Russia's not terribly put out by their performance. Everyone else is, but most especially Team USA. The country with the third-most medals in the sport's history came away completely empty-handed, and there's going to be a great deal of soul-searching at US Speedskating over the next four years. There's a suggestion that the insistence on training at altitude for a contest near sea level may have been a tragic error.</p>
<h5>The wrap:</h5>
<p>In all, it was a successful Olympics for the hosts; although the internet made a killing cracking jokes at their expense early in the games, the proceedings went on with very little controversy or disruption. Sure, there was the usual nonsense involving figure skating, and a few questionable judging decisions here and there. But there were no reports of chaos in the Olympic facilities, the venues were secure, and by all reports the experience was a pleasant one for the vast majority of attendees and participants.</p>
<p>For Team USA, it was a mixed bag, but on the whole a successful games. It's hard to win the medal count on foreign soil in the winter, and the Americans came oh so close to doing just that. Yes, the showings in hockey and speed skating are a blight on these games for the United States. But there were successes, and perhaps more importantly there were signs of real progress in sports which the Americans just haven't been good at in the past. That progress didn't result in medals, but it certainly gives hope that those droughts will end, perhaps in 2018.</p>
<p>As a final note, covering the Olympics might seem to be an odd thing for a single-team focused college blog to do, but the urge was uncontrollable. The Olympics are the target of a lot of cynicism and criticism, and it's undeniable that it's almost all warranted. But the games themselves -- the pouring out of one's very being for a short period of time, the training that leads up to it, the joy of the competitors when they succeed, and even the competition, which is often a great deal friendlier and more civil than our own everyday sports diet -- are still one of the greatest events of our time. There's a reason I did this, and it's because I absolutely love it; it wouldn't matter to me if nobody ever read any of these posts. Luckily for me, I know people have been. If nothing else, it's a decent archive of a time-based reference for the games. I hope you enjoyed following along with me. Until 2016 and Rio, peace.</p>
https://www.bringonthecats.com/2014/2/23/5439806/sochi-olympics-2014-day-17-recap-and-the-final-analysisJon Morse2014-02-22T22:00:01-06:002014-02-22T22:00:01-06:00Sochi 2014: Day 16 Recap/Final Day Preview
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<img alt="Since America went an entire day without success, let's celebrate the exit of a legend." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/SfchnbTXk1Di5TyqYywZDosP6YM=/0x0:4000x2667/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/29028681/474148831.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>Since America went an entire day without success, let's celebrate the exit of a legend. | Richard Heathcote</figcaption>
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<p>All but three events are complete, and in a final push the hosts went over the top.</p> <p>And just like that, the Americans lose the medal lead and, trailing the Russians by two, pretty much cannot possibly get it back. There are only three medal events left; one of those is a pipe dream, the Russians are poised to also medal in another, and the third... well, the third is hockey, so forget that now.</p>
<p>Upshot: Russia is going to win the medal count on their home field, but they're just <i>barely</i> going to do it. The question now for Team USA is whether they can hold onto second with Norway lurking just one medal behind them. The top five:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>29</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United States</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>27</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>26</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>24</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>24</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<h5>
<br>Results:</h5>
<p><b>Alpine Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S SLALOM</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Mario Matt</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Austria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:41.84</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Marcel Hirscher</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Austria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:42.12</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Henrik Kristofferson</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:42.67</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Over a third of the entrants didn't even complete the first run. Ted Ligety was in sixth after the first run, but wiped on the second and goes down as a DNF, along with fellow American David Chodounsky. Nolan Kasper was thus the only USA finisher, coming in 13th.</p>
<p><b>Biathlon</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S 4x7.5k RELAY</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Alexey Volkov<br>Evgeny Ustyugov<br>Dmitry Malyshko<br>Anton Shipulin</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:12:15.9</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Erik Lesser<br>Daniel Boehm<br>Amd Peiffer<br>Simon Schempp</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:12:19.4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Christoph Sumann<br>Daniel Mesotitsch<br>Simon Eder<br>Dominik Landertinger</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Austria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:12:45.7</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Team USA's Lowell Bailey finished the first leg in fourth place, just five seconds off the podium, having hit all 10 shooting targets without a miss. Russell Currier then set up at the prone targets... and only cleared two of the five, taking eight shots to even get that far. That cost Team USA three 150m penalty laps, and two minutes of time. Sean Doherty and Lief Nordgren weren't able to make up any of that lost ground, and the three biathletes combined gave up over five minutes to the Russians by the time the race was over. Team USA finished in 16th, the last team to record a time (three other teams were lapped and eliminated).</p>
<p>As bad as that was for the Americans, a career ended in the sporting version of tragedy. The legendary Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, holder of 13 Olympic medals, 8 of them gold, a man who has been a medal-winning fixture in the winter games for five Olympiads, ended his winter games career as crossed the finish line of the third leg and handed off a two-second lead over the Germans to Emil Hegle Svendsen. The Norwegians had taken out all 30 targets on 31 shots to that point, and it looked like Bjoerndalen's career was going to end with a fourteenth medal, and possibly even a ninth gold.</p>
<p>Svendsen needed six shots to clear the prone station, and the lead shrunk to a half second. Then on the way to the next range, Svendsen gave up that lead to the Germans, pulling into the blocks trailing by a second... and only took out four of his five targets on eight shots, forcing him to take a penalty loop. That cost Norway 42 seconds... and a medal, as the Russians and Austrians passed Svendsen while he was skiing the extra 150 meters.</p>
<p><b>Bobsled</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;">
<b>MEN'S FOUR-MAN</b> (heats 1-2)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
<td>Alexander Zubkov<br>Alexey Negodaylo<br>Dmitry Trunenkov<br>Alexey Voevoda</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia 1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:50.19</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
<td>Oskars Melbardis<br>Daumants Dreiskins<br>Arvis Vilkaste<br>Janis Strenga</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Latvia 1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:50.23</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
<td>Maximillian Arndt<br>Marko Huebenbecker<br>Alexander Roediger<br>Martin Putze</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:50.35</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>4</b></td>
<td><b>Steven Holcomb<br>Curtis Tomasevicz<br>Steven Langton<br>Chris Fogt</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA 1</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:50.36</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Tight, tight, tight. USA 2 (Nick Cunningham, Justin Olsen, Johnny Quinn, and Dallas Robinson) currently sit 11th.</p>
<p><b>Cross-Country</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>LADIES' 30k MASS START</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Marit Bjoergen</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:11:06.2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Therese Johaug</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:11:07.8</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Kristin Stoerner Steria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:11:28.8</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Norway throws themselves back into the thick of the race for the top with a sweep. Elizabeth Stephen led the USA contingent, finishing 24th; Holly Brooks and Kikkan Randall were 27th and 28th, and Jessica Diggins came in 40th.</p>
<p><b>Curling</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Figure Skating</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Freestyle Skiing</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Ice Hockey</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S BRONZE MEDAL GAME</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Finland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5-0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>A scoreless first period gave way to goals 11 seconds apart from <span>Teemu Selanne</span> and <span>Jussi Jokinen</span> just a minute and a half into the second. <span>Patrick Kane</span> had not one but two chances to score on penalty shots and missed; he also blew it on two separate breakaways. Those failures made the third period all the more awful, as Selanne scored again along with Jusso Hietanen and Olli Maatta. Mikael Granlund, <span>Jori Lehtera</span>, and <span>Lauri Korpikoski</span> each had a pair of assists for the Finns, and for the seventh time since Lake Placid, Team USA goes home without even medaling.</p>
<p><b>Luge</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Nordic Combined</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Short Track</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Skeleton</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Ski Jumping</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Snowboard</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>LADIES' PARALLEL SLALOM</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Julia Dujmovits</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Austria</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Anne Karstens</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Germany</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Amelie Kober</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Germany</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>There were no Americans in the Olympics in this event.</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S PARALLEL SLALOM</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Vic <span class="sbn-auto-link">Wild</span>
</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Zan Kosir</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Slovenia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Benjamin Karl</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Austria</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>American Vic Wild wins his second gold medal this week... for the Russians. Real American Justin Reiter was disqualified during the qualification run.</p>
<p><b>Speed Skating</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S TEAM PURSUIT</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Jan Blokhuijsen<br>Sven Kramer<br>Keon Verweij</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:37.71 (OR)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Hyong Jun Joo<br>Cheol Min Kim<br>Seung Hoon Lee</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Korea</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:40.85</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Zbigniew Brodka<br>Konrad Niedzwiedzki<br>Jan Szymanski</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Poland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:41.94</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Poland defeated Canada for the bronze. Norway topped Russia for fifth, and Team USA (Brian Hansen, Jonathan Kuck, Joey Mantia) beat France for seventh.</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>LADIES' TEAM PURSUIT</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Marrit Leenstra<br>Jorien Ter Mors<br>Ireen Wust</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:58.05</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Katarzyna Bachleda-Curus<br>Katarzyna Wozniak<br>Luiza Zlotkowska</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Poland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:05.55</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Olga Graf<br>Yekaterina Lobysheva<br>Yuliya Skokova</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:59.73</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>In their semifinal win over Japan, the Dutch finished in 2:58.43, which was a new Olympic record. They then broke it again in their win over Poland in the gold medal race. Russia actually posted a better time than Poland as they knocked off Japan for the bronze, Canada defeated Team USA (Brittany Bowe, Heather Richardson, and Jilleanne Rookard) in the fifth-place race, and Norway beat Korea for seventh.</p>
<h5>Looking ahead:</h5>
<h5></h5>
<p>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 <b>BOLD</b>.</p>
<p>DELAYED BROADCAST INFO: The following tags apply to the listed time windows on your local NBC station:</p>
<p>We are down to only three events remaining:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>1:00pm-5:00pm</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>7:30pm-10:00pm<br>(replayed 11:00pm-1:30am)</td>
</tr>
<tr></tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Note that Daytime is again extended, but Primetime is shortened and Latenight is gone. Farewell, half-hour snippet.</p>
<p><b>Bobsled</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S FOUR-MAN (heat 3)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">USA 1:<br>Steven Holcomb<br>Curtis Tomasevicz<br>Steven Langton<br>Chris Fogt<br>USA 2:<br>Nick Cunningham<br>Justin Olsen<br>Johnny Quinn<br>Dallas Robinson</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>MEN'S FOUR-MAN</b> (heat 4)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">USA 1:<br>Steven Holcomb<br>Curtis Tomasevicz<br>Steven Langton<br>Chris Fogt<br>USA 2:<br>Nick Cunningham<br>Justin Olsen<br>Johnny Quinn<br>Dallas RobinsonX</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Cross-Country</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>MEN'S 50k MASS START FREESTYLE</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Noah Hoffman - Torin Koos<br>Kris Freeman - Brian Gregg</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Ice Hockey</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Match</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>MEN'S GOLD MEDAL GAME</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC PROPER</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:00pm, <b>NBCSN</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada-Sweden</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Closing Ceremonies</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>SOCHI 2014 CLOSING CEREMONIES</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none in the USA</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Everyone, duh.<br>Flagbearer: Julie Chu<br>(women's hockey)</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Very little detail regarding the content of the closing ceremonies has been leaked so far. The Korean contingent will be providing violins as part of the cultural hand-off, but details regarding which (if any) popular entertainers familiar to an American audience may appear are still under lock and key. It's safe to say that these ceremonies will probably resemble Turin and Beijing much more closely than Salt Lake City, Vancouver, or London.</p>
<h5>IF YOU INTEND TO WATCH TAPE-DELAYED COVERAGE, DON'T LOOK AT THE COMMENTS AFTER 11pm. YOU HAVE BEEN DULY WARNED.</h5>
https://www.bringonthecats.com/2014/2/22/5437418/sochi-2014-winter-olympics-day-16-recap-final-day-schedule-how-to-watch-and-moreJon Morse2014-02-21T22:00:02-06:002014-02-21T22:00:02-06:00Sochi 2014: Day 15 Recap/Day 16 Preview
<figure>
<img alt="Mikaela Shiffrin added to the USA's gold medal count." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/STpe5CbyWRXlKiKCUVk7d48dt9U=/0x0:4000x2667/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/28995317/201402021_rvr_bc3_130.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>Mikaela Shiffrin added to the USA's gold medal count. | Nathan Bilow-USA TODAY Sports</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>A pair of medals keep the United States on top, but it's the contest they lost that stings.</p> <p>A pair of medals keep the USA atop the medal table, ahead of the charging Russians who picked up three and Canada earned four (actually five, but one doesn't count until Sunday). Norway grabbed a single medal to catch the Dutch, who swung and missed today. After all was said and done, the distance between Norway and Germany, as well as bunching between Germany and 10th-place Switzerland, leads us to the inescapable conclusion that we should return to simply noting the top five:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United States</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>27</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>26</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>24</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>22</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>22</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<h5>
<br>Results:</h5>
<p><b>Alpine Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>LADIES' SLALOM</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td><b>Mikaela Shiffrin</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:44.54</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Marlies Schild</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Austria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:45.07</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Kathrin Zettel</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Austria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:45.35</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Shiffrin was only sixth in the second run, but the combination of the large lead she had after the first run and even worse second runs by the skiiers closest to her after that run propelled her to a half-second win. Julia Ford finished 24th; Resi Stiegler did not finish the second run, and Megan McJames failed to complete the first.</p>
<p><b>Biathlon</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>WOMEN'S 4x5k RELAY</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Vita Semerenko<br>Juliya Dzhyma<br>Valj Semerenko<br>Olena Pidhrushna</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Ukraine</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:10:02.5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Yana Romanova<br>Olga Zaitseva<br>Ekaterina Shumilova<br>Olga Vilukhina</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:10:28.9</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Fanny Wellestrand Horn<br>Tiril Eckhoff<br>Ann Kristin Aafedt Flatland<br>Tora Berger</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:10:40.1</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Sara Dunklee had Team USA in fourth place after the first leg, but they tailed off under Hannah Driessengacker, Sara Studebaker, and Annelies Cook; shooting was a major issue, as the Americans had to use 13 extra rounds to clear their targets over the course of the event. (They did not, however, have to take any penalty laps, which was nice.) They finished in seventh place, the best USA finish ever in the event.</p>
<p><b>Bobsled</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Cross-Country</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Curling</b>:</p>
<p>Sweden trailed 4-3 going into the tenth, and they had to bring out the calipers to measure to see who got one in the tenth (Sweden could have gotten two, but chose to throw their last rock away rather than risk knocking the one they had in the 4-foot out of scoring position). Sweden scored by about an eighth of an inch, and the game went to an extra end. China had the hammer, but three awful mistakes in eight rocks by the Chinese not only allowed Sweden to steal, but to score TWO.</p>
<p>The gold medal match was as anti-climactic as the bronze was exciting; Canada had a 5-1 lead after just three ends, and when they took a point in the eighth end, the British conceded defeat.</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S CURLING</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Great Britain</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Sweden</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>4th</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">China</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Figure Skating</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Freestyle Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>LADIES' SKI CROSS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Marielle Thompson</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Kelsey Serwa</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Anna Holmlund</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Sweden</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Team USA didn't qualify anyone for the Olympics in this event.</p>
<p><b>Ice Hockey</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S SEMIFINALS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2-1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Finland</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1-0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><span>Olli Jokinen</span> struck first for the Finns midway through the second period, aided by Sami Vatanen's tournament-leading 5th assist, but the Swedes struck right back. <span>Loui Eriksson</span> and Erik Karlsson both scored within the next nine minutes, and <span>Daniel Alfredsson</span> kept the Swedish net clean the rest of the way to lift Sweden to the gold-medal game. <span>Jonathan Ericsson</span>, <span>Nicklas Backstrom</span>, <span>Alexander Steen</span>, and <span>Daniel Sedin</span> had assists for the yellow and blue. <span>Tuukka Rask</span>, the hero in goal for the Finns against Russia, missed the game due to the flu, and that may well have been the difference in this one.</p>
<p>As one would expect, Canada and Team USA hooked up in a tight defensive battle. The stalemate was broken only by Jamie Benn's early-second period goal, assisted by Jay Bouwmeester. Team USA plays Finland tomorrow for bronze; Canada meets the Swedes Sunday for the gold to close out the Olympics.</p>
<p><b>Luge</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Nordic Combined</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Short Track</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S 500m</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Viktor An</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">41.312</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Dajing Wu</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">China</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">41.516</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Charlie Cournoyer</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">41.617</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>An wins his second gold of the games. J.R. Celski finished second in his quarterfinal heat, advancing to the semis, where he was eliminated; he came in second in the sub-final, thus finishing sixth.</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>LADIES' 1000m</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Seung-Hi Park</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Korea</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:30.761</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Kexin Fan</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">China</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:30.811</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Suk Hee Sim</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Korea</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:31.027</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>American Jessica Smith was 4th. Emily Scott was eliminated in the quarterfinals.</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S 5000m RELAY</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Viktor An<br>Semen Elistratov<br>Vladimir Grigorev<br>Ruslan Zakharov</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:42.100 (OR)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td><b>Eduardo Alvarez<br>J.R. Celski<br>Chris Clevenger<br>Jordan Malone</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:42.371</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Dequan Chen<br>Tianyu Han<br>Jingnan Shi<br>Dajing Wu</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">China</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:48.341</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>A crash on the opening corner of the race allowed Team USA to win its first -- and, it is offically assured since they're not in either long-track medal event tomorrow, only -- speed skating medal of the Olympics. Just a short time after winning his second gold of the games, Viktor An claimed his third.</p>
<p><b>Skeleton</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Ski Jumping</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Snowboard</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Speed Skating</b>:</p>
<p>In the Men's Team Pursuit quarterfinal, Team USA (Shani Davis, Jonathan Kuck, Brian Hansen, and Joey Mantia) lost their race against Canada; worse, they posted the second-worst time, so they'll be competing for seventh place tomorrow. In the semifinals, Korea and the Dutch will meet tomorrow for the gold after prevailing over Canada and Poland, who'll skate for bronze.</p>
<p>The ladies (Brittany Bowe, Heather Richardson, Kelly Gunther, and Jilleanne Rookard) lost before they ever stepped onto the track, since they were up against the Netherlands. The Dutch set an Olympic record, but the Americans at least performed well enough to race for fifth tomorrow.</p>
<h5>Looking ahead:</h5>
<h5></h5>
<p>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 <b>BOLD</b>.</p>
<p>DELAYED BROADCAST INFO: The following tags apply to the listed time windows on your local NBC station:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>1:30pm-5:00pm</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>7pm-10:00pm<br>(replayed 12:00am-3:00am)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Latenight</b></td>
<td>11:00pm-midnight</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>It's Saturday, so there's an extra 1.5 hours of NBC Daytime. Also note different times for Primetime and Latenight. Be aware that NBC proper IS NOT SHOWING ANY LIVE COVERAGE OF THESE OLYMPICS.</p>
<p>Also today, <b>NBCSN</b> will be airing <i>something</i> from 11:30am-1:30pm, but no decision has been made as to exactly what that will be yet.</p>
<p><b>Alpine Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S SLALOM (run 1)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:45pm</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Ted Ligety - Nolan Kasper<br>David Chodounsky</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>MEN'S SLALOM</b> (run 2)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10:15am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Ted Ligety - Nolan Kasper<br>David Chodounsky</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Biathlon</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>MEN'S 4x7.5k RELAY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Lowell Bailey - Russell Currier<br>Sean Doherty - Leif Nordgren</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Bobsled</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S FOUR-MAN (heat 1)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">USA 1:<br>Steven Holcomb<br>Curtis Tomasevicz<br>Steven Langton<br>Chris Fogt<br>USA 2:<br>Nick Cunningham<br>Justin Olsen<br>Johnny Quinn<br>Dallas Robinson</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S FOUR-MAN (heat 2)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">noon</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">USA 1:<br>Steven Holcomb<br>Curtis Tomasevicz<br>Steven Langton<br>Chris Fogt<br>USA 2:<br>Nick Cunningham<br>Justin Olsen<br>Johnny Quinn<br>Dallas Robinson</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Cross-Country</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>LADIES' 30k MASS START</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Kikkan Randall - Jessica Diggins<br>Elizabeth Stephens - Holly Brooks</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Curling</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Figure Skating</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed, but the figure skating gala exhibition is tonight, and will be part of the coverage on both <b>NBC Primetime</b> and <b>NBC Latenight</b>, because showing replayed meaningless crap is more important than showing replayed actual sporting events.</p>
<p><b>Freestyle Skiing</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Ice Hockey</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Match</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>MEN'S BRONZE MEDAL GAME</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5:00pm, <b>NBCSN</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">
<b>USA</b>-Finland</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Luge</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Nordic Combined</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Short Track</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Skeleton</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Ski Jumping</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Snowboard</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' PARALLEL SLALOM (qualification)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:15pm</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:00am, <b>NBCSN</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S PARALLEL SLALOM (qualification)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:42pm</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:00am, <b>NBCSN</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Justin Reiter</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' PARALLEL SLALOM (1/8)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:15am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S PARALLEL SLALOM (1/8)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:27am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Justin Reiter</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' PARALLEL SLALOM (quarterfinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:03am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S PARALLEL SLALOM (quarterfinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:09am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' PARALLEL SLALOM (semifinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S PARALLEL SLALOM (semifinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:33am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>LADIES' PARALLEL SLALOM</b> (finals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:46am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>MEN'S PARALLEL SLALOM</b> (finals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:50am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">TBD</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Speed Skating</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' TEAM PURSUIT<br>(semifinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>MEN'S TEAM PURSUIT</b><br>(finals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7:51am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Shani Davis - Jonathan Kuck<br>Brian Hansen - Joey Mantia<br>(seventh place race)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>LADIES' TEAM PURSUIT</b><br>(finals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8:14am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Brittany Bowe - Jilliane Rookard<br>Kelly Gunther - Heather Richardson<br>(fifth place race)</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<h5>IF YOU INTEND TO WATCH TAPE-DELAYED COVERAGE, DON'T LOOK AT THE COMMENTS AFTER 11pm. YOU HAVE BEEN DULY WARNED.</h5>
https://www.bringonthecats.com/2014/2/21/5435120/sochi-2014-winter-olympics-day-15-recap-day-16-schedule-how-to-watch-and-moreJon Morse2014-02-20T22:00:02-06:002014-02-20T22:00:02-06:00Sochi: Day 14 Recap/Day 15 Preview
<figure>
<img alt="We don't discuss the other medal, because "slashing"." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/WCgf4mWDZAKfrinNfreGYTY6N94=/0x0:4000x2667/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/28932063/201402020_rvr_ar3_456.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>We don't discuss the other medal, because "slashing". | Guy Rhodes-USA TODAY Sports</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>A two-medal day vaults Team USA to a significant, though not impassable, lead in the medal count.</p> <p>The United States waited until deep into the evening to get on the board again, but once they did they racked up a quick pair of medals to extend their lead in the medal count to equal the largest lead anyone's had the entire games. Canada also scored a pair, both of which they were assured of before they even woke up this morning. Russia, Norway, and Germany each found the podium once. Shut out today were the Dutch, but we suddenly have an interloper to take into account. France racked up four medals today to pull within one of the Germans, giving us a valid excuse to finally turn out top six into a top seven:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United States</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>25</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>23</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>22</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>21</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>20</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>16</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>France</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>15</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<h5>
<br>Results:</h5>
<p><b>Alpine Skiing</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Biathlon</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Bobsled</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Cross-Country</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Curling</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"><b>WOMEN'S CURLING</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Sweden</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Great Britain</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>4th</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Switzerland</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Great Britain beat the Swiss 6-5 in the bronze medal game, supplying Eve Muirhead and Anna Sloan with a medal after a rough start to round-robin. With a 4-3 lead and the hammer going into the ninth end, Canada housed a pair and Sweden conceded the gold.</p>
<p><b>Figure Skating</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;">
<b>LADIES'</b> (free skate)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Adelina Sotnikova</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">224.59</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Yuna Kim</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Korea</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">219.11</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Carolina Kostner</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Italy</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">216.73</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>For the first time since the 20-year war-aided gap between 1932 and 1952, the USA goes two straight Olympics without a ladies' singles figure skating medal. Gracie Gold finished a distant 4th, Ashley Wagner 7th, and Polina Edmunds 9th. Carolina Kostner is a new Italian hero; her bronze is the first-ever medal for Italy in ladies' singles.</p>
<p><b>Freestyle Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S SKI CROSS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Jean Frederic Chapuis</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">France</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Arnaud Boloventa</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">France</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Jonathan Midol</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">France</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>France announces its presence in a big way, sweeping the podium and closing to within one medal of the top six. The only American in the event, John Teller, crashed during the 1/8 final and did not finish.</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>LADIES' SKI HALFPIPE</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td><b>Maddie Bowman</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">89.00</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Marie Martinod</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">France</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">85.40</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Ayana Onazuka</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Japan</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">83.20</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>All four USA entrants made the final; Brita Sigourney finished 6th, Annalisa Drew 9th, and Angeli VanLaanen 11th.</p>
<p><b>Ice Hockey</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>WOMEN'S HOCKEY</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Switzerland</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>4th</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Sweden</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Switzerland erupted for four third-period goals, becoming the first women's hockey team to wipe out a two-goal third-period deficit in a medal game. It's the first hockey medal for the Swiss since the men won the bronze in 1948; they also won the bronze in 1928, and those two medals had something in common: they were won <i>in</i> Switzerland. So this is the first Swiss hockey medal won on foreign soil, as well.</p>
<p>Jessie Vetter was an impenetrable wall for 56 minutes, and Team USA's defense managed to kill off a 5-on-3 penalty without even allowing a shot on goal. Meghan Duggan and Alex Carpenter scored for the Americans, and they held a 2-0 lead with three-and-a-half to go. And then Canada charged back. Brianne Jenner scored. Canada pulled Shannon Szabados for an extra attacker. A wild clear by the US almost went in the empty net, but bounced off the goal post. And then with 55 seconds left, Marie-Philip Poulin dinked the puck into a hole that barely seemed to exist. Tie game. Overtime.</p>
<p>Team USA got a power play six minutes in when Catherine Ward was called for cross-checking, and then everything went bad. Five seconds later, Jocelyn LaMoureax was called for slashing on a terribly dubious call; arguably, the "slash" was a stick motion anticipating a shot rebound. A little over a minute later, Hilary Knight was called for cross-checking; it probably could have been a penalty shot, but the penalty itself was bad enough. Just 39 seconds later, with Canada having a two-skater advantage, Poulin scored again and it was all over. Canada had won the gold... again.</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="5" style="text-align:center;"><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">PLAYER</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">COUNTRY</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">G</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">A</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">PTS</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Michelle Karvinen</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Finland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pernilla Winberg</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Amanda Kessel</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Hilary Knight</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Kendall Coyne</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Brianna Decker</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Yekaterina Smolentseva</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Karvinen led all goal-scorers with 5, followed by Winberg and Team USA's Alex Carpenter with four. Team USA's Jocelyn LaMoureux had no goals, but led the tournament with five assists; eight players had four each.</p>
<p><b>Luge</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Nordic Combined</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>TEAM LARGE HILL/4x5km</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Magnus Hovdal Moan<br>Haavard Klemetsen<br>Magnus Krog<br>Joergen Graabak</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">47:13.5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Eric Frenzel<br>Bjoern Kirchesen<br>Johannes Rydzek<br>Fabian Riessle</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">47:13.8X</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Lukas Klapfer<br>Christoph Bieler<br>Bernhard Gruber<br>Mario Stecher</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Austria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">47:16.9</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Team USA (Todd Lodwick, Taylor Fletcher, Brian Fletcher, Bill DeMong) finished sixth.</p>
<p><b>Short Track</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Skeleton</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Ski Jumping</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Snowboard</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Speed Skating</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<h5>Looking ahead:</h5>
<h5></h5>
<p>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 <b>BOLD</b>.</p>
<p>DELAYED BROADCAST INFO: The following tags apply to the listed time windows on your local NBC station:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>2:00pm-4:00pm</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>7pm-10:00pm<br>(replayed 1:00am-4:00am)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Latenight</b></td>
<td>midnight-1:00am</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Be aware that NBC proper IS NOT SHOWING ANY LIVE COVERAGE OF THESE OLYMPICS other than the hockey gold medal games.</p>
<p><b>Alpine Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WOMEN'S SLALOM (run 1)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:45pm</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Mikaela Shiffrin - Julia Ford<br>Megan McJames - Resi Stiegler</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>WOMEN'S SLALOM</b> (run 2)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10:15am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Mikaela Shiffrin - Julia Ford<br>Megan McJames - Resi Stiegler</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Biathlon</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants<br></b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>WOMEN'S 4x5k RELAY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Susan Dunklee - Hannah Dreissigacker<br>Sara Studebaker - Annelies Cook</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Bobsled</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Cross-Country</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Curling</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Matches</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>MEN'S BRONZE MEDAL GAME</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:30pm</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">
<b>NBCSN</b>*</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>China-Sweden</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">* - Window shared with Ladies' Ski Cross.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>MEN'S GOLD MEDAL GAME</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:00pm, <b>CNBC</b>
</td>
<td>Canada-Great Britain</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Figure Skating</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Freestyle Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants<br></b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' SKI CROSS (qualification)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:45am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:00am, <b>NBCSN</b>*</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' SKI CROSS (1/8)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">
<b>NBCSN</b>*</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8:30am, <b>NBCSN</b>
</td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' SKI CROSS (quarterfinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:05am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">
<b>NBCSN</b>*</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8:30am, <b>NBCSN</b>
</td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' SKI CROSS (semifinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:25am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">
<b>NBCSN</b>*</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>LADIES' SKI CROSS</b> (final)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:41am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">
<b>NBCSN</b>*</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">* Window shared with Men's Curling bronze medal game.</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Ice Hockey</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Match</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S SEMIFINAL</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:00pm, <b>NBCSN</b>
</td>
<td>Sweden-Finland</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S SEMIFINAL</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10:30pm, <b>NBCSN</b>†</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:00pm, <b>NBCSN</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>USA</b>-Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">† Window shared with Ladies' Team Pursuit Speed Skating; presumably during intermission.</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Luge</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Nordic Combined</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Short Track</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants<br></b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S 500m (quarterfinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>J.R. Celski</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' 1000m (quarterfinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10:44am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>Jessica Smith - Emily Scott</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S 500m (semifinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:13am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' 1000m (semifinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:21am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>MEN'S 500m</b> (finals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:43am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>LADIES' 1000m</b> (finals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:53am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>MEN'S 5000m RELAY</b> (final)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">12:18am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Eduardo Alvarez - J.R. Celski<br>Chris Creveling - Jordan Malone</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Skeleton</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Ski Jumping</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Snowboard</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Speed Skating</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S TEAM PURSUIT (quarterfinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Shani Davis - Jonathan Kuck<br>Brian Hansen - Joey Mantia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' TEAM PURSUIT (quarterfinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8:23am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10:30am, <b>NBCSN</b>†<br><b>NBC Latenight</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Brittany Bowe - Heather Richardson<br>Kelly Gunther - Jilleanne Rookard</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S TEAM PURSUIT (semifinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9:13am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">† Window shared with USA-Canada hockey; presumably during intermission.</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<h5>IF YOU INTEND TO WATCH TAPE-DELAYED COVERAGE, DON'T LOOK AT THE COMMENTS AFTER 11pm. YOU HAVE BEEN DULY WARNED.</h5>
https://www.bringonthecats.com/2014/2/20/5430624/sochi-2014-winter-olympics-day-13-recap-day-14-schedule-how-to-watch-and-moreJon Morse2014-02-19T22:00:02-06:002014-02-19T22:00:02-06:00Sochi 2014 Day 13 Recap/Day 14 Preview
<figure>
<img alt="Ted Ligety, first two-time USA gold medalist in Alpine." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/9JXbHfdGCmZ_NSxl7nGAEPS1IvQ=/0x5:4000x2672/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/28872719/201402019_rvr_bc3_273.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>Ted Ligety, first two-time USA gold medalist in Alpine. | Nathan Bilow-USA TODAY Sports</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>Another large day for Team USA, and it was barely enough to keep pace with their closest competitors.</p> <p>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:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United States</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>23</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>22</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>22</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>20</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>18</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>15</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<h5>
<br>Results:</h5>
<p><b>Alpine Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S GIANT SLALOM</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td><b>Ted Ligety</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:45.29</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Steve Missillier</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">France</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:45.77</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Alexis Pinturault</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">France</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:45.64</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>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.</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>MIXED RELAY</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Tora Berger<br>Tiril Eckhoff<br>Ole Einar Bjoerndalen<br>Emil Hegle Svendsen</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:09:17.0X</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Veronika Vitkova<br>Gabriela Soukalova<br>Jaroslav Soukup<br>Ondrej Moravec</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Czech Republic</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:09:49.6X</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Dorothea Wierer<br>Karin Oberhofer<br>Domink Windisch<br>Lukas Hofer</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Italy</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:10:15.2</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>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.</p>
<p><b>Bobsled</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;">
<b>WOMEN'S BOBSLED</b> (heats 3-4)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Kaillie Humphries<br>Heather Moyse</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada 1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:50.61</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td><b>Elana Meyers<br>Lauryn Williams</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA 1</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:50.71</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td><b>Jamie Greubel<br>Aja Evans</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA 2</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:51.61</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>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.</p>
<p><b>Cross-Country</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>LADIES' TEAM SPRINT CLASSIC</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Ingvild Oestberg<br>Marit Bjoergen</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">16:04.05</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Aino-Kaisa Saarinen<br>Kerttu Niskanen</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Finland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">16:13.14</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Ida Ingemarsdotter<br>Stina Nilsson</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">16:23.82</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>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.</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S TEAM SPRINT CLASSIC</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Iivo Niskanen<br>Sami Jauhojaervi</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Finland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">23:14.89</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Maxim Vylegzhanin<br>Nikita Kruikov</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">23:15.86</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Emil Joensson<br>Teodor Peterson</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">23:30.01</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Team USA, Simeon Hamilton and Erik Bjornson, finished sixth.</p>
<p><b>Curling</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>WOMEN'S SEMIFINALS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6-4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Great Britain</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7-5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Switzerland</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S SEMIFINALS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10-6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">China</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Great Britain</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6-5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Sweden</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>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.</p>
<p><b>Figure Skating</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;">
<b>LADIES'</b> (short program)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
<td>Yuna Kim</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Korea</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">74.92</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
<td>Adelina Sotnikova</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">74.64</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
<td>Carolina Kostner</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Italy</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">74.12</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>4</b></td>
<td><b>Gracie Gold</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">68.63</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>5</b></td>
<td>Yulia Lipnitskaya</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">65.23</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>6</b></td>
<td><b>Ashley Wagner</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">65.21</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>7</b></td>
<td><b>Polina Edmunds</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">61.04</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>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 <i>massive</i> 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.</p>
<p><b>Freestyle Skiing</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Ice Hockey</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S QUARTERFINALS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">(1) Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5-0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">(9) Slovenia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">(4) Finland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3-1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">(5) Russia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>(3) USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5-2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">(6) Czech Republic</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">(2) Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2-1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">(10) Latvia</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Slovenia gave Sweden a run for their money through almost 50 minutes, only trailing 2-0 after an <span>Alexander Steen</span> power play goal late in the first period and a <span>Daniel Sedin</span> score early in the third. Then, with 12 minutes to go, the wheels fell off. <span>Loui Eriksson</span> scored for the Swedes, then <span>Carl Hagelin</span> added a pair to bury Slovenia. Henrik Lundqvist recorded a shutout. Erik Karlsson had a pair of assists, and familar names <span>Daniel Alfredsson</span> and <span>Nicklas Backstrom</span> each contributed to the cause as well.</p>
<p>Juhamatti Aaltonen, the ageless <span>Teemu Selanne</span>, and <span>Mikael Granlund</span> scored to push Finland into the semifinals against Sweden. Selanne and Granlund each added an assist, as did <span>Kimmo Timonen</span> and Petri Kontiola. Those three goals answered the opening salvo from the Russians, who scored first when <span>Pavel Datsyuk</span> fed <span>Ilya Kovalchuk</span> midway through the first period. <span>Tuukka Rask</span> kept the net empty the rest of the way.</p>
<p>Team USA ripped the Czech Republic behind five different scorers. <span>David Backes</span> had a goal and an assist, and James van Riemsdyk, Duston Brown, <span>Phil Kessel</span>, and (finally getting on the scoresheet) <span>Zach Parise</span> also hit the net. <span>Ryan Suter</span> and <span>Ryan Kesler</span> each had a pair of assists, along with singles from <span>Patrick Kane</span>, <span>Ryan McDonagh</span>, <span>Joe Pavelski</span>, and Kevin Shattenkirk. All the Czechs could muster was a pair of unassisted goals from Ales Hemsky. The Americans get a semifinal date with...</p>
<p>...Canada, who survived a ridiculous goaltending performance from Latvia's Kristers Gudlevskis and a furious late flurry spearheaded by Sandis Ozolinsh to advance. <span>Patrick Sharp</span> scored early for the Canadians, helped by <span>Rick Nash</span>, but Lauris Darzins answered for Latvia less than two minutes later, with assists from <span>Arturs Kulda</span> and Janis Sprukts. The two teams then locked horns ineffectually for over 37 minutes before <span>Drew Doughty</span> and <span>Jonathan Toews</span> fed Shae Weber to put the Canadians ahead 2-1. Latvia pressed <span>Carey Price</span> relentlessly for the next seven minutes, but Price was up to the task and Canada held on for the win.</p>
<p><b>Luge</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Nordic Combined</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Short Track</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Skeleton</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Ski Jumping</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Snowboard</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>LADIES' PARALLEL GIANT SLALOM</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Patrizia Kummer</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Switzerland</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Tomoka Takeuchi</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Japan</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Alena Zavarzina</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>No American women even qualified for the event. Zavarzina's husband is...</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S PARALLEL GIANT SLALOM</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Vic <span class="sbn-auto-link">Wild</span>
</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Nevin Galmarini</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Switzerland</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Zan Kosir</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Slovenia</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>...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.</p>
<p><b>Speed Skating</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>LADIES' 5000m</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Martina Sablikova</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Czech Republic</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:51.54</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Ireen Wust</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:54.28</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Carien Kleibeuker</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:55.66</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Maria Lamb, Team USA's only entry, finished 16th (and last).</p>
<h5>Looking ahead:</h5>
<h5></h5>
<p>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 <b>BOLD</b>.</p>
<p>DELAYED BROADCAST INFO: The following tags apply to the listed time windows on your local NBC station:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>11:00am-2:00pm</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>7pm-10:30pm<br>(replayed 1:00am-4:30am)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Latenight</b></td>
<td>midnight-1:00am</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Note time change for NBC Daytime</b>, which will air the women's hockey gold medal game live.</p>
<p>Be aware that NBC proper IS NOT SHOWING ANY LIVE COVERAGE OF THESE OLYMPICS except the Hockey gold medal games.</p>
<p><b>Alpine Skiing</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Biathlon</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Bobsled</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Cross-Country</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Curling</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Matches</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>WOMEN'S BRONZE MEDAL GAME</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:30pm</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">
<b>NBCSN</b>*</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>Great Britain-Switzerland</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>WOMEN'S GOLD MEDAL GAME</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:00pm, <b>CNBC</b>
</td>
<td>Sweden-Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">* Window shared with Nordic Combined.</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Figure Skating</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants<br></b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>LADIES'</b> (free skate)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Ashley Wagner - Gracie Gold<br>Polina Edwards</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Freestyle Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S SKI CROSS (qualification)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:45am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>John Teller</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S SKI CROSS (1/8)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>John Teller</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S SKI CROSS (quarterfinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:05am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:00pm, <b>NBCSN</b>
</td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S SKI CROSS (semifinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:25am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:00pm, <b>NBCSN</b>
</td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>MEN'S SKI CROSS</b> (final)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:41am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' SKI HALFPIPE (qualification)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Maddie Bowman - Angeli VanLaanen<br>Annalisa Drew - Brita Sigourney</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>LADIES' SKI HALFPIPE</b> (final)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Ice Hockey</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Match</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>WOMEN'S BRONZE MEDAL GAME</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">*</td>
<td>Switzerland-Sweden</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>WOMEN'S GOLD MEDAL GAME</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">*</td>
<td>Canada-<b>USA</b>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Today's matches will re-air at 2:00pm and 4:00pm on <b>NBCSN</b>.</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Luge</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Nordic Combined</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TEAM LARGE HILL/4x5k (jumping)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">
<b>NBCSN</b>*</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Latenight</b></td>
<td>Todd Lodwick<br>Taylor Fletcher<br>Bill DeMong<br>Bryan Fletcher</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>TEAM LARGE HILL/4x5k</b> (10k)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Latenight</b></td>
<td>Todd Lodwick<br>Taylor Fletcher<br>Bill DeMong<br>Bryan Fletcher</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">* Window shared with Women's Curling Bronze Medal Game.</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Short Track</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Skeleton</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Ski Jumping</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Snowboard</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Speed Skating</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<h5>IF YOU INTEND TO WATCH TAPE-DELAYED COVERAGE, DON'T LOOK AT THE COMMENTS AFTER 11pm. YOU HAVE BEEN DULY WARNED.</h5>
https://www.bringonthecats.com/2014/2/19/5426464/sochi-2014-winter-olympics-day-13-recap-day-14-schedule-how-to-watch-and-moreJon Morse2014-02-18T22:00:01-06:002014-02-18T22:00:01-06:00Sochi 2014: Day 12 Recap/Day 13 Preview
<figure>
<img alt="" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/5Qw3fdXwG3Qz9mgK5mYqBUgyAmg=/0x0:4000x2667/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/28817289/470107659.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>Christophe Pallot/Agence Zoom</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>The Americans are still tied for the medal lead, but their partners changed. Do-si-do!</p> <p>Pulling yet another podium sweep -- 60% of their medals in these games have been earned in that fashion -- the Dutch leapt to the top of the leaderboard temporarily. The second USA medal of the day forced a tie at the top. Russia picked up one, and Canada a pair, but our friends to the north slipped a spot thanks to three Norwegian podium spots. Germany also added a pair, but the surfeit of medals above them leave Deutchland at the bottom of today's top six:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>20</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United States</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>20</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>19</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>18</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>17</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>15</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<h5>
<br>Results:</h5>
<p><b>Alpine Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>WOMEN'S GIANT SLALOM</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Tina Maze</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Slovenia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:36.87</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Anna Fenninger</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Austria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:36.94</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Viktoria Rebensburg</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:37.14</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Mikaela Shiffrin was 5th for the best USA finish. Resi Stiegler was 29th, Megan McJames 30th; Julia Mancuso did not finish the first of the two runs.</p>
<p><b>Biathlon</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S 15k MASS START</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Emil Hegle Svendsen</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">42:29.1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Martin Fourcade</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">France</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">42:29.1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Ondrej Moravec</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Czech Republic</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">42:42.9</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Svendsen almost blew it. With Fourcade on his heels, the Norwegian raised his arms in celebration as he reached the finish line and almost lost the gold medal when Fourcade lunged forward. It was a photo finish, and it took a painfully long time for the result to be made official. Americans Tim Burke and Lowell Bailey finished 21st and 23rd, respectively.</p>
<p><b>Bobsled</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;">
<b>WOMEN'S BOBSLED</b> (heats 1-2)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
<td><b>Elana Meyers<br>Lauryn Williams</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA 1</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:54.89</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
<td>Kaillie Humphries<br>Heather Moyse</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada 1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:55.12</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
<td><b>Jamie Gruebel<br>Aja Evans</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA 2</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:55.45</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>USA 3 (Jazmine Fenlator/Lolo Jones) is in 11th, but posted better <i>start</i> times than any sled other than the top three.</p>
<p><b>Cross-Country</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Curling</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S TIEBREAKER SESSION</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Great Britain</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8-6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Norway</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>That settles the men's semifinal pairings; Great Britan will meet top seed Sweden.</p>
<p><b>Figure Skating</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Freestyle Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S SKI HALFPIPE</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td><b>David Wise</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">92.00</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Mike Riddle</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">90.60</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Kevin Rolland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">France</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">88.60</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Wise led Team USA in the qualifications, taking second. Aaron Blunck snuck in at 12th. Torin Yater-Wallace was 26th, and Lyman Currier 28th; that was the lowest score among skiiers who started the event.</p>
<p><b>Ice Hockey</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>WOMEN'S CLASSIFICATIONS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3-2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Japan</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Finland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4-0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Finland claims fifth place, Russia sixth, Germany seventh, Japan eighth.</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S PLAYOFF QUALIFICATIONS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">(8) Slovenia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4-0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">(9) Austria</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">(5) Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4-0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">(12) Norway</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">(10) Latvia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3-1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">(7) Switzerland</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">(6) Czech Republic</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5-3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">(11) Slovakia</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><span>Anze Kopitar</span>, Jan Urbas, Sabahudin Kovacevic, and <span>Jan Mursak</span> all scored for the Slovenes as Robert Kristan blanked Austria. Austrian Michael Grabner exits the Olympics holding the current men's goal-scoring lead with five; Slovenia's reward is a quarterfinal date with Sweden.</p>
<p><span>Alexander Radulov</span> had two goals and an assist and <span>Pavel Datsyuk</span> had a three-assist night as Russia shutout Norway. Ilya Kovalchuk and Alexei Tereshchenko added goals for Russia, and the crowd got to enjoy <span>Viktor Tikhonov</span> getting on the scoresheet with an assist. The hosts advance to play Finland.</p>
<p>A pair of Lauris Darzins goals, and another from <span>Oskars Bartulis</span>, lifted Latvia to an upset win over Switzerland. Martin Pluss scored for the Swiss. Latvia advances to play Canada. The other late game? Barn-burner. Four different scorers found the net for the Czech Republic -- <span>Ales Hemsky</span>, <span>Roman Cervenka</span> twice, <span>David Krejci</span>, and <span>Tomas Plekanec</span> with 39 seconds left into an empty net while on a power play to put the game out of reach. Plekanec and Krejci had assists, as well as a pair from Tomas Kaberle. But in between Cervenka's second goal with four minutes left in the second period and Plekanec's game-ender, Slovakia made things very interesting. <span>Marian Hossa</span> scored twice, and Tomas Surovy scored to make it 4-3 midway through the third period. Andrej Sekara and <span>Michal Handzus</span> each had two assists for the Slovaks. The Czechs advance to play Team USA.</p>
<p><b>Luge</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Nordic Combined</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>INDIVIDUAL LARGE HILL/10k</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Joergen Graabak</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">23:27.5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Magnus Hovdal Moan</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">23:28.1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Fabian Riessle</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">23:29.1</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Taylor Fletcher led Team USA with a 20th place finish. Bryan Fletcher was 22nd, and Bill Demong was 31st. Todd Lodwick, 30th after the ski jump, withdrew before the cross-country segment.</p>
<p><b>Short Track</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>LADIES' 3000m RELAY</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Ha-Ri Cho<br>Alang Kim<br>Sangjeong Kong<br>Seung-Hi Park<br>Suk Hee Sim</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Korea</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:09.498</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Maria-Eve Drolet<br>Jessica Hewitt<br>Valerie Maltais<br>Marianne Saint-Gelais</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:10.641</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Arianna Fontana<br>Lucia Peretti<br>Martina Valcepina<br>Elena Viviani</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Italy</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:14.014</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Reminder, Team USA was not in the relay. In the non-medal events today, Jessica Smith and Emily Scott both advanced to the quarterfinals of the ladies' 1000m. In the men's 500m, J.R. Celski qualified, but Eduardo Alvarez and Jordan Malone did not.</p>
<p><b>Skeleton</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Ski Jumping</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Snowboard</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S SNOWBOARD CROSS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Pierre Vaultier</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">France</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Nikolai Olyunin</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>
<b></b>Alex Dielbold</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>American Nick Holland, seven-time X-Games gold medalist, didn't even get out of the 1/8 finals. Nor did Nick Baumgartner. Alex Diebold and Trevor Jacob did, and then survived the quarterfinal. Placed in the same semifinal, Diebold beat Jacob to the line for third place in a photo-finish, sending Diebold on to the final and Jacob to the consolation. Jacob finished third in that run for an overall ninth-place finish.</p>
<p><b>Speed Skating</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S 10000m</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Jorrit Bergsma</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">12:44.45 (OR)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Sven Kramer</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">12:49.02</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Bob de Jong</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">13:07.19</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Yet another Dutch sweep, which once again vaulted them, at the time, to the top of the medal count. Americans Emery Lehman and Patrick Meek were 10th and 11th.</p>
<h5>Looking ahead:</h5>
<h5></h5>
<p>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 <b>BOLD</b>.</p>
<p>DELAYED BROADCAST INFO: The following tags apply to the listed time windows on your local NBC station:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>2:00pm-4:00pm</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>7pm-10:30pm<br>(replayed 1:00am-4:30am)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Latenight</b></td>
<td>midnight-1:00am</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>We get an extra half-hour of Primetime tonight.</p>
<p>Be aware that NBC proper IS NOT SHOWING ANY LIVE COVERAGE OF THESE OLYMPICS.</p>
<p><b>Alpine Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S GIANT SLALOM (run 1)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Ted Ligety - Jared Goldberg<br>Bode Miller - Tim Jitloff</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>MEN'S GIANT SLALOM</b> (run 2)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Ted Ligety - Jared Goldberg<br>Bode Miller - Tim Jitloff</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Biathlon</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>MIXED RELAY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Latenight</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Susan Dunklee - Hannah Dreissigacker<br>Tim Burke - Lowell Bailey</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Bobsled</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>WOMEN'S BOBSLED (heats 3-4)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10:15am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>USA 1:<br>Elana Myers/Lauryn Williams<br>USA 2:<br>Jamie Greubel/Aja Evans<br>USA 3:<br>Jazmine Fenlator/Lolo Jones</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Cross-Country</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' TEAM SPRINT CLASSIC (semis)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:15am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:30am, <b>NBCSN</b>
</td>
<td>Sophie Caldwell/Kikkan Randall</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S TEAM SPRINT CLASSIC (semis)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:05am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:30am, <b>NBCSN</b>
</td>
<td>Simeon Hamilton/Erik Bjornsen</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>LADIES' TEAM SPRINT CLASSIC</b> (finals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5:45am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>MEN'S TEAM SPRINT CLASSIC</b> (finals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:15am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Curling</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Matches</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WOMEN'S SEMIFINALS</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">GBR-CAN, <b>USA</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">SWE-SUI, 8:00am, <b>MSNBC</b>
</td>
<td>Great Britain-Canada<br>Sweden-Switzerland</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S SEMIFINALS</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">SWE-GBR, 1:30pm, <b>MSNBC</b><br>CAN-CHN, 4:00pm, <b>CNBC</b>
</td>
<td>Sweden-Great Britain<br>Canada-China</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Figure Skating</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' (short program)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Ashley Wagner - Gracie Gold<br>Polina Edwards</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Freestyle Skiing</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Ice Hockey</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Match</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S QUARTERFINAL</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">*</td>
<td>(1) Sweden<br>(9) Slovenia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S QUARTERFINAL</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">*</td>
<td>(4) Finland<br>(5) Russia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S QUARTERFINAL</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>MSNBC</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">*</td>
<td>(2) Canada<br>(10) Latvia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S QUARTERFINAL</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">*</td>
<td>(3) <b>USA</b><br>(6) Czech Republic</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">One of today's matches will re-air at 4:00pm on <b>NBCSN</b>.</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Luge</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Nordic Combined</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Short Track</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Skeleton</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Ski Jumping</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Snowboard</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' PARALLEL GIANT SLALOM (quals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:15pm</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S PARALLEL GIANT SLALOM (quals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">23:42pm</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>Justin Reiter</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' PARALLEL GIANT SLALOM (1/8)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S PARALLEL GIANT SLALOM (1/8)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:12am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' PARALLEL GIANT SLALOM (quarters)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:48am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S PARALLEL GIANT SLALOM (quarters)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:54am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES' PARALLEL GIANT SLALOM (semis)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:15am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S PARALLEL GIANT SLALOM (semis)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:18am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>LADIES' PARALLEL GIANT SLALOM</b> (finals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:31am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>MEN'S PARALLEL GIANT SLALOM</b> (finals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:35am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>(The lack of an American entry into the Ladies' event explains why NBC can't be bothered with it.)</p>
<p><b>Speed Skating</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>LADIES' 5000m</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>Maria Lamb</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
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https://www.bringonthecats.com/2014/2/18/5423120/sochi-2014-winter-olympics-day-12-recap-day-13-schedule-how-to-watch-and-moreJon Morse2014-02-17T22:00:59-06:002014-02-17T22:00:59-06:00Sochi 2014: Day 11 Recap/Day 12 Preview
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<figcaption>Steven Holcomb and Steven Langdon WERE going here, but then this happened. | Clive Mason</figcaption>
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<p>Team USA made history today -- twice.</p> <p>The Russians and Americans each grabbed a pair of medals today, pushing them to the head of the class. Canada, Germany, and Norway each grabbed a single prize -- including yet another gold for Germany, padding their lead in that column -- leaving us with this iteration of our top six:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>18</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United States</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>18</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>17</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>15</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>15</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>13</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<h5>
<br>Results:</h5>
<p><b>Alpine Skiing</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Biathlon</b>:</p>
<p>The Men's 15k Mass Start was postponed for the second day in a row due to heavy fog at Krasnaya Polyana. It's been rescheduled for 4:30am tomorrow. The women's event, much later in the day, was able to proceed as planned:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>WOMEN'S 12.5k MASS START</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Darya Domracheva</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Belarus</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">35:25.6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Gabriela Soukalova</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Czech Republic</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">35:45.8</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Tiril Eckhoff</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">35:52.9</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Susan Dunklee, the only American entry -- indeed, the first American woman to ever <i>qualify</i> for the event -- finished in 12th place.</p>
<p><b>Bobsled</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;">
<b>TWO-MAN</b> (heats 3-4)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Alexander Zubkov<br>Alexey Voevoda</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia 1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:45.39</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Beat Hefti<br>Alex Baumann</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Switzerland 1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:46.05</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td><b>Steven Holcomb<br>Steven Langdon</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA 1</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:46.27</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>The United States captures its first two-man bobsled medal since 1952. USA 2 (Cory Butner/Chris Fogt) finished 12th; right behind them in 13th was USA 3 (Nick Cunningham/Dallas Robinson).</p>
<p><b>Cross-Country</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Curling</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S ROUND ROBIN</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>SESSION 12</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">China</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6-5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Great Britain</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8-7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Germany</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Switzerland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6-3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Denmark</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5-3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Norway</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S FINAL STANDINGS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>RK</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TEAM</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>W</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>L</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td>Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td>China</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td>Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td>Great Britain</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td>Denmark</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td>Switzerland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">10</td>
<td>Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Ties are broken by head-to-head, except when that tie determines advancement to the semifinals... which means Norway and Great Britain have to play a match tonight to settle matters. Sweden will play the winner of that game in the semis; China will face Canada.</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>WOMEN'S ROUND ROBIN</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>SESSION 11</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Japan</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8-5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">China</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Great Britain</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9-6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Korea</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11-2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>WOMEN'S ROUND ROBIN</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>SESSION 12</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8-4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Japan</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Switzerland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">10-6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">China</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9-4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Korea</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Denmark</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8-7 (11)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Great Britain</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>WOMEN'S FINAL STANDINGS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>RK</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TEAM</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>W</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>L</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td>Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td>Switzerland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td>Great Britain</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td>Japan</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td>Denmark</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td>China</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td>Korea</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">9</td>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">10</td>
<td><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Great Britain needed only to score in the extra end against Denmark to avoid the Canadian buzzsaw in the semifinals; they didn't. Sweden will meet Switzerland in the other semifinal. And, well, Team USA... sigh. The Americans are 5-22 in round-robin play since finishing fourth at Salt Lake City.</p>
<p><b>Figure Skating</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;">
<b>ICE DANCING</b> (free skate)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td><b>Meryl Davis<br>Charlie White</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">195.52</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Tessa Virtue<br>Scott Moir</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">190.99</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Elena Ilinykh<br>Nikita Katsalapov</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">183.48</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Finally, the United States captures a gold medal in ice dancing. It's only the fourth dance medal ever for Team USA. It was a great performance for the Americans in total; Madison Chock and Evan Bates finished in eighth, and Maia and Alex Shibutani came in ninth.</p>
<p><b>Freestyle Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S AERIALS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Anton Kushnir</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Belarus</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">134.50</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>David Morris</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Australia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">110.41</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Zongyang Jia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">China</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">95.06</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Mac Bohonnon, Team USA's only representative, escaped the qualification and quarterfinal rounds by the skin of his teeth, but bowed out in the semifinals, finishing fifth.</p>
<p><b>Ice Hockey</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>WOMEN'S SEMIFINALS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6-1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Sweden</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3-1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Switzerland</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Brianna Decker and Megan Bozek each had a goal and two assists, Amanda Kessel and Kacey Bellamy each had a goal and an assist, and the USA also got goals from Alex Carpenter and Monique LaMoureux to roll over Sweden and into the gold medal game. Anna Borgqvist averted the shutout with just under seven minutes remaining, but it was all over by that point. Team USA had 70 shots on goal to only 9 for the Swedes, who just didn't have the speed to attack; all too often, a Swedish skater would enter the attacking zone and find four Americans there with her before help arrived.</p>
<p>Canada jumped out to an early lead in their semifinal on a pair of Natalie Spooner goals, the second of which was quickly followed by a score from Melodie Daoust, and it turned out they sort of needed them. Jessica Lutz scored for the Swiss midway through the second period to close the gap, and Florence Schelling kept the Canadians out of her net the rest of the way. Switzerland couldn't make that pay off on the other end, though, and Canada advances to the gold medal game against Team USA. Switzerland and Sweden will play for bronze.</p>
<p><b>Luge</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Nordic Combined</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Short Track</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Skeleton</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Ski Jumping</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S TEAM LARGE HILL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Andreas Wank<br>Marinus Kraus<br>Andreas Wellinger<br>Severin Freund</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1041.1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Michael Hayboeck<br>Thomas Morgenstern<br>Thomas Diethart<br>Gregor Schlerenzauer</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Austria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1038.4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Reruhi Shimuzu<br>Taku Takeuchi<br>Daiki Ito<br>Noriaki Kasai</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Japan</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1024.9</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>The American team of Peter Frenette, Nick Fairall, Anders Johnson, and Nick Alexander did not qualify for the final, and finished tenth.</p>
<p><b>Snowboard</b>:</p>
<p>The Men's Snowboard Cross event was also a victim of the fog at Krasnaya Polyana. It has been rescheduled for tomorrow, at the same times as today's schedule.</p>
<p><b>Speed Skating</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<h5>Looking ahead:</h5>
<h5></h5>
<p>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 <b>BOLD</b>.</p>
<p>DELAYED BROADCAST INFO: The following tags apply to the listed time windows on your local NBC station:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>2:00pm-4:00pm</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>7pm-10:00pm<br>(replayed 1:00am-4:00am)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Latenight</b></td>
<td>midnight-1:00am</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Be aware that NBC proper IS NOT SHOWING ANY LIVE COVERAGE OF THESE OLYMPICS (except the gold medal hockey games).</p>
<p><b>Alpine Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WOMEN'S GIANT SLALOM (run 1)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>Julia Mancuso - Mikaela Shiffrin<br>Megan McJames - Resi Stiegler</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>WOMEN'S GIANT SLALOM</b> (run 2)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>Julia Mancuso - Mikaela Shiffrin<br>Megan McJames - Resi Stiegler</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Biathlon</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>MEN'S 15k MASS START</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>Tim Burke<br>Lowell Bailey</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Note: Rescheduled from each of the previous two days, this may end up being aired, probably on NBC Primetime or Latenight.</p>
<p><b>Bobsled</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WOMEN'S BOBSLED (heats 1-2)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9:15am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:00am, <b>NBCSN</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>USA 1:<br>Elana Myers<br>Lauryn Williams<br>USA 2:<br>Jamie Greubel<br>Aja Evans<br>USA 3:<br>Jazmine Fenlator<br>Lolo Jones</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Cross-Country</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Curling</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Matches</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S TIEBREAKER SESSION</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:00pm</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:00pm, <b>CNBC</b>
</td>
<td>Norway-Great Britain</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Figure Skating</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Freestyle Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S SKI HALFPIPE (qualification)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7:45am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>David Wise - Torin Yater-Wallace<br>Aaron Blunck - Lyman Currier</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>MEN'S SKI HALFPIPE</b> (final)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Ice Hockey</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Matches</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S PLAYOFF QUALIFICATION</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">*</td>
<td>(8) Slovenia-(9) Austria</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WOMEN'S SEVENTH PLACE GAME</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>Germany-Japan</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S PLAYOFF QUALIFICATION</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">*</td>
<td>(5) Russia-(12) Norway</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WOMEN'S FIFTH PLACE GAME</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>Russia-Finland</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S PLAYOFF QUALIFICATION</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN†</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">*</td>
<td>(7)Czech Republic-(10) Slovakia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S PLAYOFF QUALIFICATION</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>MSNBC</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">*</td>
<td>(11) Latvia-(6) Switzerland</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">† Window shared with women's bobsled coverage, likely during intermissions.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">* Two men's matches will re-air at 2:00pm and 4:00pm on <b>NBCSN</b>.</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Luge</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Nordic Combined</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>INDIVIDUAL LARGE HILL/10k (jumping)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:30am, <b>NBCSN</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>Todd Lodwick - Taylor Fletcher<br>Bill DeMong - Bryan Fletcher</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>INDIVIDUAL LARGE HILL/10k</b> (10k)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9:00am, <b>NBCSN</b>
</td>
<td>Todd Lodwick - Taylor Fletcher<br>Bill DeMong - Bryan Fletcher</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Short Track</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LADIES 1000m (heats)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Latenight</b></td>
<td>Jessica Smith - Emily Scott</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S 500m (heats)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:15am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>J.R. Celski - Jordan Malone<br>Eduardo Alvarez</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>LADIES' 3000m RELAY</b> (final)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:54am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Skeleton</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Ski Jumping</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Snowboard</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S SNOWBOARD CROSS (1/8 finals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>Nate Holland - Alex Diebold<br>Nick Baumgartner - Trevor Jacob</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S SNOWBOARD CROSS (quarterfinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:52am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S SNOWBOARD CROSS (semifinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:04am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>MEN'S SNOWBOARD CROSS</b> (finals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:12am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Speed Skating</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>MEN'S 10000m</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9:00am, <b>NBCSN</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>Patrick Meek - Emery Lehman</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<h5>IF YOU INTEND TO WATCH TAPE-DELAYED COVERAGE, DON'T LOOK AT THE COMMENTS AFTER 11pm. YOU HAVE BEEN DULY WARNED.</h5>
https://www.bringonthecats.com/2014/2/17/5419902/sochi-2014-winter-olympics-day-11-recap-day-12-schedule-how-to-watch-and-moreJon Morse2014-02-16T22:00:02-06:002014-02-16T22:00:02-06:00Sochi 2014: Day 10 Recap/Day 11 Preview
<figure>
<img alt="Weibrecht and Miller kept Team USA in range of the top of the medal board." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/WbJoq9gFxYraLdG6E7JTyI0BA98=/0x160:2667x1938/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/28711677/469741659.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>Weibrecht and Miller kept Team USA in range of the top of the medal board. | Joe Scarnici</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>Group play is done in hockey, and it's a Russian disaster.</p> <p>The Dutch swept yet another speed-skating event, which vaults them back to the top of the leaderboard. The American double in the men's Super G kept Russia from passing them, but the Eagle and the Bear are now tied for second. Norway picked up one medal -- and the event they failed to medal in today will be a source of deep national angst -- and the Canadians two; Germany maintains the lead in gold medals but made no podium appearances today, leaving them at the bottom of our top six:</p>
<table style="width: 350px; border: 0px;" align="center"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>COUNTRY</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>G</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>S</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>B</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TOTAL</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>17</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>16</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United States</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>16</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>14</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>14</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Germany</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>12</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<h5>
<br>Results:</h5>
<p><b>Alpine Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S SUPER G</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Kjetil Jansrud</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:18.14</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td><b>Andrew Weibrecht</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:18.44</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Jan Hudec<br><b>Bode Miller</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada<br><b>USA</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:18.67</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Yet another medal tie in Alpine, this one resulting in Bode Miller finally grabbing that sixth Olympic medal he'd been chasing all week. Weibrecht moved up from his bronze medal finish in Vancouver. Ted Ligety finished 14tn, and Travis Ganong 23rd. The Americans took sole possession of the medal lead with this result.</p>
<p><b>Biathlon</b>:</p>
<p>The Men's 15k Mass Start, scheduled for this morning, was rescheduled for midnight tonight.</p>
<p><b>Bobsled</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;">
<b>TWO-MAN</b> (heats 1-2)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
<td>A. Zubkov/A. Voevoda</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia 1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:52.82</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
<td>B. Hefti/A. Baumann</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Switzerland 1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:53.14</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
<td><b>S. Holcomb/S. Langton</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA 1</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:53.18</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>It's tight at the top. USA 2 (Cory Butner/Chris Fogt) had a horrible second run, falling from medal position all the way down to 11th. USA 3 (Nick Cunningham/Dallas Robinson) is in 13th.</p>
<p><b>Cross-Country</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S RELAY 4x10k</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>L. Nelson<br>D. Richardsson<br>J. Olsson<br>M. Hellner</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:28:42.0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>D. Japarov<br>A. Bessmertnykh<br>A. Legkov<br>M. Vylegzhanin</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:29:09.3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>J.M. Gaillard<br>M. Manificat<br>R. Duvillard<br>I. Perrillat-Boiteux</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">France</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:29:13.9</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>The American team of Andy Newell, Erik Bjornsen, Noah Hoffman, and Simeon Hamilton finished in 1:33:15.1, good for 11th place.</p>
<p><b>Curling</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S ROUND ROBIN</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>SESSION 10</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8-6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8-4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7-6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Great Britain</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>WOMEN'S ROUND ROBIN</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>SESSION 10</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7-6 (11)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Denmark</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7-4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Korea</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Japan</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9-7 (11)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Switzerland</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5-4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S ROUND ROBIN</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>SESSION 11</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9-8 (11)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">China</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5-3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Switzerland</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Denmark</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6-3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Germany</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6-4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Sweden joins Canada in the women's semifinals, but the fight over the last two spots tomorrow is going to be a brawl. It's a little clearer on the men's side, where Canada and Sweden have qualified; China, Norway, and Great Britain are in contention for the other two spots, and China plays Great Britain tomorrow.</p>
<p><b>Figure Skating</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;">
<b>ICE DANCING</b> (short program)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>1</b></td>
<td><b>M. Davis/C. White</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">78.89</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>2</b></td>
<td>T. Virtue/S. Moir</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">76.33</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>3</b></td>
<td>E. Ilinykh/N. Katsalapov</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">73.04</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Meryl Davis and Charlie White broke their own record for highest score posted in the short program since the adoption of the current scoring rules. The other American pairs did reasonably well also; Madison Chock and Evan Bates are in 8th and Maia and Alex Shibutani are in 9th.</p>
<p><b>Freestyle Skiing</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Ice Hockey</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>WOMEN'S CLASSIFICATIONS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Finland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2-1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Germany</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6-3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Japan</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>The second game had some excitement. The two teams combined for four goals in a frenetic 81 seconds -- which began just seconds after the end of a Japanese power play. Japan scored while Russia was still getting back to full strength, Russia scored in transition 30 seconds after the face-off, then Japan scored <i>immediately</i> off the face-off, then Russia struck back again less than a minute later.</p>
<p>Finland will play Russia for fifth place; Germany will take on Japan to determine seventh and eighth.</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S GROUP A</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">5-1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Slovenia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1-0 (so)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Slovakia</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><span>Phil Kessel</span> had a natural hattrick, with <span>Joe Pavelski</span> assisting on all three goals (plus an extra from James van Riemsdyk) as the Americans rolled into the quarterfinals. <span>Ryan McDonagh</span> and <span>David Backes</span> also scored for Team USA. Ryan Miller came 18 seconds from a shutout, but it was spoiled when Marcel Rodman slipped one in during a mad final rush.</p>
<p>In the other Group A final, Russia -- needing only a regulation win to guarantee passage to the quarters -- choked. <span>Semyon Varlamov</span> and Jan Laco kept the game scoreless through regulation and overtime, necessitating the Russian's second shootout in as many days. <span>Michal Handzus</span> and <span>Tomas Tatar</span> missed for the Slovakians; <span>Alexander Radulov</span> hit for Russia between those misses, and <span>Ilya Kovalchuk</span> ended the contest without the need for the third shootout round. Russia will be forced into the quarterfinals as the fifth seed.</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="5" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S GROUP A FINAL STANDINGS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TEAM</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>W-L-OTW-OTL</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>PTS</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GF-GA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>DIFF</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>USA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3-0-1-0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">15-4</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">+11</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2-1-1-1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8-5</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">+3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Slovenia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1-2-0-0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6-11</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">-5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Slovakia</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0-3-0-1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2-11</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">-9</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S GROUP B</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Austria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3-1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Norway</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2-1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Finland</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><span>Michael Grabner</span>, as of the end of his game the leading scorer in these Olympics, scored twice and assisted on a <span>Michael Raffl</span> power play goal to lead Austria to a reasonable seed in the quarterfinals. Per-Age Skroder scored for Norway, who end up as the seventh seed in the quarters.</p>
<p>Canada and Finland required overtime; <span>Drew Doughty</span> scored 2:32 into the extra frame to give Canada the win and the Group B title. It was Doughty's second goal of the game; he got help from <span>Jeff Carter</span>, <span>Shea Weber</span>, and Sidney Crosby. Tuomo Ruutu scored for Finland two minutes into the second period to tie the game, and it stayed that way for forty minutes. The overtime had an impact: Canada is now the second seed in the quarterfinals, and Sweden gets the top seed. Finland is the fourth seed, advancing as the best team not to win its group.</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="5" style="text-align:center;"><b>MEN'S GROUP B FINAL STANDINGS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>TEAM</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>W-L-OTW-OTL</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>PTS</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GF-GA</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>DIFF</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3-0-1-0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11-2</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">+9</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Finland</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2-1-0-1</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">15-7</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">+8</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Austria</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1-2-0-0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7-15</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">-8</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Norway</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0-3-0-0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3-12</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">-9</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>The qualification matchups: Slovenia-Austria, Russia-Norway, Switzerland-Latvia, and Czech Republic-Slovakia.</p>
<p><b>Luge</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Nordic Combined</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Short Track</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Skeleton</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Ski Jumping</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Snowboard</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"><b>LADIES' SB CROSS</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Eva Samkova</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Czech Republic</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Dominique Maltais</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Chloe Trespeuch</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">France</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Faye Gulini finished fourth. Lindsey Jacobellis took seventh by winning the consolation final after failing to move on from the semis. Jacqueline Hernandez didn't finish the qualification run.</p>
<p><b>Speed Skating</b>:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"><b>LADIES' 1500m</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>GOLD</b></td>
<td>Jorien Ten Mors</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:53.51 (OR)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>SILVER</b></td>
<td>Ireen Wust</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:54.09</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>BRONZE</b></td>
<td>Lotte van Beek</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:54.54</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Yet another Dutch sweep. American Heather Richardson was 7th; Brittany Bowe was 14th and Jilleanne Rookard 18th. The USA's skating-really-fast travails continue unabated.</p>
<h5>Looking ahead:</h5>
<h5></h5>
<p>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 <b>BOLD</b>.</p>
<p>DELAYED BROADCAST INFO: The following tags apply to the listed time windows on your local NBC station:</p>
<table style="width: 300px; border: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>2:00pm-4:00pm</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>7pm-10:00pm<br>(replayed 1:00am-4:00am)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>NBC Latenight</b></td>
<td>midnight-1:00am</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>The NBC schedule returns to last week's weekday windows, but Latenight (and thus Primetime replay) are pushed forward an hour.</p>
<p>Be aware that NBC proper IS NOT SHOWING ANY LIVE COVERAGE OF THESE OLYMPICS.</p>
<p><b>Alpine Skiing</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Biathlon</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>MEN'S 15k MASS START</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">midnight</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">12:30pm, <b>NBCSN</b><br><b>NBC Daytime</b>
</td>
<td>Tim Burke<br>Lowell Bailey</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>WOMEN'S 12.5k MASS START</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">12:30pm, <b>NBCSN</b><br><b>NBC Daytime</b>
</td>
<td>Susan Dunklee</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>The Men's 15k Mass Start was rescheduled from today; NBC's schedule originally devoted two windows to the Women's 12.5k, and it hasn't changed yet. It's reasonable to assume they might use one slot to cover the men's event now.</p>
<p><b>Bobsled</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>TWO-MAN</b> (heats 3-4)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">8:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Latenight</b></td>
<td>United States 1:<br>Steven Holcomb - Steven Langton<br>United States 2:<br>Cory Butner - Chris Fogt<br>United States 3:<br>Nick Cunningham - Dallas Robinson</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Cross-Country</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Curling</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Matches</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WOMEN'S SESSION 11</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:00pm</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">2:00am, KOR-<b>USA</b>, <b>NBCSN</b>
</td>
<td>Korea-<b>USA</b><br>Russia-Great Britain<br>Japan-China</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S SESSION 12</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">SUI-<b>USA</b>, <b>USA</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>Switzerland-<b>USA</b><br>Germany-Russia<br>Norway-Denmark<br>China-Great Britain</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WOMEN'S SESSION 12</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:00pm, DEN-GBR, <b>CNBC</b>
</td>
<td>China-Switzerland<br>Sweden-Japan<br>Denmark-Great Britain<br>Canada-Korea</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Figure Skating</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>ICE DANCE</b> (free dance)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">9:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>Maia Shibutani/Alex Shubutani<br>Madison Chock/Evan Bates<br>Meryl Davis/Charlie White</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Freestyle Skiing</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S AERIALS (qualification)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">7:45am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>Mac Bohonnon</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S AERIALS (final 1)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S AERIALS (final 2)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:55am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>MEN'S AERIALS</b> (final 3)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">12:12pm</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Ice Hockey</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Match</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WOMEN'S SEMIFINAL</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">6:00am, <b>NBCSN</b>
</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">*</td>
<td>
<b>USA</b>-Sweden</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>WOMEN'S SEMIFINAL</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>MSNBC</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">*</td>
<td>Canada-Switzerland</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Today's matches will re-air at 2:00pm and 4:00pm on <b>NBCSN</b>.</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Luge</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Nordic Combined</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Short Track</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<p><b>Skeleton</b>:</p>
<p>All events completed.</p>
<p><b>Ski Jumping</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S TEAM LARGE HILL (1st round)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">11:15am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>Nicholas Alexander - Nicholas Fairall<br>Peter Frenette - Anders Johnson</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>MEN'S TEAM LARGE HILL</b> (finals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">12:22pm</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBCSN</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Snowboard</b>:</p>
<table style="border:0px;"><tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Event</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Time (CT)</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Live TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>Delayed TV</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>USA Participants</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S SNOWBOARD CROSS (seeding)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1:00am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td>Nate Holland - Alex Diebold<br>Nick Baumgartner - Trevor Jacob</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S SNOWBOARD CROSS (1/8 finals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:30am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S SNOWBOARD CROSS (quarterfinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">3:52am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Daytime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MEN'S SNOWBOARD CROSS (semifinals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:04am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>MEN'S SNOWBOARD CROSS</b> (finals)</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">4:12am</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">none</td>
<td style="text-align:center;"><b>NBC Primetime</b></td>
<td>TBD</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p><b>Speed Skating</b>:</p>
<p>No events today.</p>
<h5>IF YOU INTEND TO WATCH TAPE-DELAYED COVERAGE, DON'T LOOK AT THE COMMENTS AFTER 11pm. YOU HAVE BEEN DULY WARNED.</h5>
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