What would the Olympics be without a bit of controversy. In the Men's Snowboard parallel giant slalom, South Korea's Lee Sangho defeated Slovenia's Jan Kosir by .01 in a photo finish. The controversy arose when a detailed look at the photo finish seems to show that Kosir won. The snowboarder crosses the finish when any part of his body crosses the finish. In the picture below, it seems that Kosir, in the far lane, has already passed the line when Lee, in the near lane, passes the finish line. Granted, the camera angle is not exact, but it still looks like Kosir wins. Nevertheless, Kosir goes on to win the bronze, and Lee lost in the finals to Switzerland's Nevin Galmarini, who claimed the gold.
In the men's 1000m speed skating, another Dutch gold!!! This time, Kjeld Nuis, who also finished first in the 1500m, won his second gold medal of these games. Havard Lorentzen of Norway won silver, to go along with his gold in the 500m. Kim Tae-Yun of South Korea took home the bronze.
In the men's snowboarding big air finals, Canada's Sebastien Toutant won gold, with Billy Morgan winning bronze, but all anyone could talk about was Kyle Mack's silver, earned after performing a frontside double cork 1440 bloody Dracula. (I am neither young enough nor hip enough to know what that means.) And it was a good thing too as Mack earned the only medal of the day for the United States. To try to make the podium and earn a medal, Chris Corning tried a quad cork 1800 on his last run - a trick that has never been landed - but fell to earn only fourth.
But the race of the day was the women's snowboarding parallel giant slalom. Germany's Selina Jeorg and Ramona Theresia Hofmeister won gold and silver respectively, as Ester Ledecka of the Czech Republic wins gold. Ledecka becomes the first person to win gold medals in two separate events, as the parallel giant slalom snowboarding win follows her incredibly unexpected super giant slalom gold medal in alpine skiing. So for her second gold, Ester Ledecka gave the Performance of the Day!!!
The U.S. Disappointment of the Day goes to nobody specific, as nobody ridiculously underperfomed, so this award is going to go to the entire team for only earning one medal today, especially given that snowboarding, and freestyle skiing gave out four medal events today, and the U.S. won only 1 medal.
Events Watched: The Honda Classic
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