We entered the medal round for curling in both the men's and women's competition. In the men's bracket, Switzerland dominated Norway for the bronze, winning 9-1. Switzerland was equally successful in the women's side as they defeated the United States 7-4 in the Semi-Finals to advance to the gold medal game, where they will face Sweden, which claimed victory over Canada 6-3.
On skis, the Biathlon Men's 15 km mass start was held, with familiar faces all over the podium. Norway won gold and silver behind Johannes Dale-Skjevdal (gold) and Sturla Holm Laegreid (silver). France's Quintin Fillon-Maillet earned bronze. It was Dale-Skjevdal's first medal of any games, but Laegreid won his third silver to go with 2 bronzes in Milano-Cortina to pair with a gold from Beijing, and Fillon Maillet's bronze will go with his three golds in these games.
The United States won a much-needed gold behind Alex Ferreira in the Men's Freestyle Skiing Halfpipe, with Henry Sildaru of Estonia following him to silver, and Canadian Brendan Mackay winning bronze.
Freestyle Skiing also conducted the men's aerials, in which China faired very well with Wang Xindi earning gold and Li Tianma winning bronze. Sandwiched between the Chinese athletes for silver was Noe Roth of Switzerland.
The best event of the day was on the slopes in the Women's Ski Cross as Daniela Maier of Germany not only improved on her bronze from Beijing, she let out a heartfelt, enthusiastic scream as she crossed the finish line that had to have touched anybody in the vicinity. Fanny Smith of Switzerland won silver and Sandra Naeslund of Sweden took home the bronze.
The Dutch continued their dominance of speed skating as Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong takes the gold, followed by Ragne Wiklund of Norway who earned silver, and Valerie Maltais from Canada who joined the podium as the bronze medalist.
Not to be outdone, Short-Track Speedskating held two medal races, the Women's 1500 meter and the Men's 5000-meter relay. In the former, Kim Gilli of Korea won gold, followed by compatriot Choi Minjeong and Corrine Stoddard from Canada earning bronze. In the latter, the Dutch team of Jens van'T Wout, Teun Boer, Friso Emons, and Melle van'T Wout won gold over the Korean team (silver) and the host Italians (bronze).
On another sheet of ice, the Canadian men advanced to the gold-medal game in hockey in a hard-fought victory over Finland, prevailing 3-2. In the finals, they will face the United States, who easily handled Slovakia 6-2, behind a pair of goals from Jack Hughes.
