We are going to kickoff today's report with the Biathlon 4x6km women's relay, which was a tremendous race won by France by 51 seconds over silver medalists Sweden, with Olympics leading Norway in third. The French team has lots of bling from Milano-Cortina as leadoff leg Camille Bened won her first gold, but the Lou Jeanmonnot won her second gold of these games to go with a silver and a bronze. The penultimate racer Oceane Michelon won gold to go with a previous silver, and anchor Julia Simon won her third gold medal to take home along with a silver.
On the ice, both Curling teams faced off against Great Britain, with the women winning 8-7 and the men losing 8-7. The men's loss was devastating as they were tied with Great Britain for one of the last two medal round spots heading into the fixture.
The men's hockey quarterfinals were absolutely amazing, with Slovakia starting things off with a 6-2 win over Germany, and then three straight overtime games! Canada defeated Czechia, but only after tying the game late before winning 4-3. Finland outlasted Switzerland 3-2 and the United States won 2-1, behind a spectacular overtime goal from Quinn Hughes - his first - and most timely - of the tournament. Hughes's shot came after he waived off a substitution from the bench!!! These semi-finals are going to be amazing!
Short Track Speedskating had two tremendous duals, with Korea, Italy and Canada winning the three medals in the Women's 3000-meter relay. It was another medal for Italy's Arianna Fontana. Korea meanwhile won its 7th gold medal in this event in the 10 years that it has been contested!
Meanwhile, the men raced the 500 meters, with Canadian Steven DuBois winning gold. Dutch brothers Melle van'T Wout and Jens van'T Wout finished second and third respectively. Jens had previously won the 1000-meter gold medal and also finished first in the 1500-meter. Meanwhile Melle stated his goal was to stand on the podium with his brother, whether because they both earned a medal in an individual event or as members of the same relay team did not matter to him!
In Cross-Country, Johannes Hoesflot-Klaebo won another gold medal - his fifth of these games - as Norway wone the men's team spring, with the United States behind Ben Ogden and Gus Schumacher really taking the race to the rest of the world not named Norway and winning silver. This was OGden's second silver behind Klaebo in these games. Host Italy won bronze.
For the women, Sweden won the Women's team spring, with Switzerland and Germany rounding out the podium.
And on the slopes, American favorite Mikaela Shiffrin won the slalom, her best event, by 1.5 seconds over Camille Rast of Switzerland, with Anna Swenn Larssen of Sweden coming in third. The 1.5 second differential between first and second was the same differential as between second and thirteenth place!
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