Only four medal events today, but as in the past few days, some great competition.
Men's hockey lost to the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals, but Ryan Donato - from HARVARD - scored a goal, and is to date the leading score in the entire tournament. Alas, no medal for the American men.
Germany swept the nordic combined, but since nobody know what that means (OK, actually I do), I won't go into any more detail. Nevertheless, congratulations to Johannes Rydzek (gold), Fabian Riesle (silver) and Eric Frenzel (bronze) for their efforts skiing AND ski jumping.
In what has to be the most rehearsed (OK, practiced) in the entire Olympics, home favorite Team South Korea wins gold in the short track women's 3000m relay, with Italy winning silver and the Netherlands winning bronze. If you have not seen a relay in short track - go now and watch. YouTube, Smart TV, whatever you have to do - go watch it!
In the women's downhill, Italy's Sofia Goggia became the first Italian woman to win gold in the downhills. Norway's Ragnhild Mowinckel won silver and American Lindsay Vonn won the bronze. In so doing, the 33 year old Vonn became the oldest medalist in Olympic Alpine skiing history. However, since I feel that Vonn gets way more credit than she should simply because she dated Tiger Woods (and because Racecar is annoyed with her) I will not include a solo picture of her.
Congratulations to Lindsay nonetheless.
The women's figure skating event kicked off with its short program, and all that happened is the OAR is way better than anyone else - like much better. Evgenia Medvedeva set a short program world record by scoring 81.61 points, only to have Alina Zagitova break that world record by scoring 82.92 points. Everyone else might as well not even be skating, including the Americans who finished 9th (Mirai Nagasu), 10th (Karen Chen) and 11th (Bradie Tennell) - the worst showing for the United States ever.
The day, however, belonged to Martin Fourcade, the brilliant biathlete who anchored the French team's mixed relay securing his third gold of these Olympics, which incidentally started slow for him as he failed to medal in the men's 10KM sprint biathlon - in which he finished 8th. Norway and Italy earned silver and bronze respectively. Martin Fourcade - and team France - are the Performance of the Day!!!! (It would have gone to the OAR's figure skaters, but I will save that for when the win gold/silver).
Several Disappointments for the United States include the men's hockey team (which I warned would not win a medal after losing their opening match to Slovenia 3-2 in overtime) and the women's short track speed skating 1000m team, all of which failed to advance past the opening race. However, the main Disappointment of the Day is warded to Nagasu, Chen and Tennell, for the United States's worst performance in the women's figure skating short program in Olympic history.
Events Watched: Men's Hockey; Women's Short Track Speed Skating; Men's Biathlon; Women's Alpine; Women's Figure Skating
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