Olympics - Milano-Cortina 2026 - Day 13/February 16

 

Day 1 of the last full week of this edition of the Winter Olympics, and a couple of very influential story from today!!!!

In Women's Curling, the United States lost to Italy 7-2, but maintain a strong position in the standings with a few matches left.

In Ski Jumping, the Super Team event was held, with Austria winning the team event, Poland winning silver, and Norway capturing the bronze.  The Austrian team of Jan Hoerl and Stephan Einbacher taking home the gold.

In the Women's Big Air event for Freestyle Skiing, Canda took home the gold behind two fabulous runs by Megan Oldham, who was able to defeat Eileen Gu from China (silver) and Flora Tabanelli of the host country (Italy).

On the ice, the Pairs Figure Skating Free Program wrapped up the pairs, and the uber-talented team of Miora and Kihara vaulted from fifth to first to win the gold.  The Georgian tandem of Metelkina and Berulara won silver - AND A LOT OF NEW FANS - with the German team winning bronze.

On a different ice surface, Dutch skater Xandra Velzeboer won her second gold of these games by capturing the 1000-meter race, with Canadian skater Courtney Sarault winning silver and Kim Gilli of Korea winning bronze.

The women's hockey semi-finals concluded the way everybody wanted, with a Canada-US final.  Canada narrowly defeated Switzerland 2-1 and the United States defeated Sweden 5-0, behind the efforts of 5 different goal scorers!  Special note should go to Goalkeeper Aerin Frankel, as the United States has won all of its games by a collective score of 31-1, with that lone goal be surrendered in the very first match.  In doing so, she is the first goalie to have 3 shutouts in one Olympics!

On the slopes, the Men's slalom was held with Swiss star Loic Meillard winning gold to earn an entire matching set from Milano-Cortina (Gold, Silver, Bronze).  Austria's Fabio Gstrein earned silver after coming from WAY back after the first run.  Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway won bronze to add to his country's leading medal total.

But the event of the day was the conclusion of the Women's Monobob competition in Bobsledding.  As the leaders took their respective fourth runs, American Kaillie Armbruster Humphries set the standard with two sledders remaining.  That run guaranteed her a bronze medal, which is where she finished after Germany's Laura Nolte took the lead with only Elana Meyers Taylor remaining.  And Meyers Taylor did not disappoint.  Despite slowing at the bottom of the track, Meyers Taylor finished .04 seconds ahead of Notle to win her first medal (and her 6th overall).  Meyers Taylor became the fourth American with six overall Winter Olympics medals (Apolo Anton Ohno (8), Bonnie Blair (6) and Bode Miller (6)).  She also became the oldest medalist in Winter Olympics history at age 41, breaking the record set in Beijing in 2022 set by ... Elana Meyers Taylor!!!

Athlete of the Day - Elana Meyers Taylor, USA, Bobsled

See everything above ...

U.S. Athlete of the Day - Aerin Frankel, Hockey

31-1 goal differential!!!

Upset of the Day - No major upsets today

Seriously.

Team of the Day - United States, Women's Hockey

Anything less than gold would be incredibly disappointing.

U.S. Team of the Day - United States, Women's Hockey

See above!

Olympic Term of the Day:  Clap Skates - In Speed Skating, a clap skate is a type of ice skate used in speed skating, characterized by its unique design that allows the blade to detach from the heel during the skating stride.  This design enables the skater to extend their leg more fully, which increases efficiency and speed.

Olympic Events Watched:   Alpine Skiing, Bobsled, Figure Skating, Freestyle Skiing

USA Closing Ceremony Flag-Bearer Possibilities (listed alphabetically):  Evan Bates, Madison Chock, Kendall Coyne, Jessie Diggins, Korey Dobkin, Ashley Farquharson, Breezy Johnson, Jaelin Kauf, Hilary Knight, Elizabeth Lemley, Austin Matthews, Elana Meyers Taylor, Ben Ogden, Jordan Stolz, Cory Thiesse, 

Olympics - Beijing 2022 - Day 16

Day 16 - February 19, 2022

This is basically the last day of the Olympics, with the Closing Ceremonies tomorrow, and with the time difference, by the time you read this the Olympics will actually be over.  But, a lot of events on this last full day of action!

The host country China won the bronze medal in the men's 4x100 meter relay in Track and Field from Tokyo 2020 (competed in 2021).  What does that have to do with the Winter Olympics?  Well, it occurred today.  Great Britain was stripped of their silver medal due to the conclusion of appeals after one of its runners tested positive for a banned substance.  Japan, which finished third, rises to the bronze medal and China, which finished fourth, is now officially the silver medalist. 

In bobsled, the 2-woman race completed its final two runs, and the German teams dominated.  The team of Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi won gold, and their teammates Mariama Jamanka and Alexandra Burghardt won silver.  Germany's third team finished fourth, just edged out by Americans Elana Meyers Taylor and Sylvia Hoffman, who won bronze - Meyers Taylor's second medal of these Olympics.

In the men's 4-man bobsled, the Germans also finished 1-2, with the sleigh piloted by Francesco Friedrich winning gold and the one piloted by Johannes Lochner winning silver.  This was the same finish for these pilots as in the 2-man bobsled.  The Canadian sled led by Justin Kripps won the bronze.

In all of the sliding sports - bobsled (4-man, 2-woman, 2-man, monobob), luge (men, women, 2-man, mixed-team relay), and skeleton (men, women), Germany won 16 of the total 30 medals awarded.  Not to take anything away from the German athletes, who are certainly among the best in the world, but the sleds themselves are just that much better than those of any other country.  How do we know?  Because, in the monobob, the sleds are identically made by the same manufacturer, and in that event, the American women went 1-2 and the Canadian pilot won bronze. Laura Nolte of Germany did finish fourth, by Mariama Jamanka finished 13th.  This was the best test of the quality of the driver. In the rest of the sliding competitions, the teams have to keep their sleds within certain parameters, but just like a Nascar race, can be made and adjusted within those parameters.  So the German sleds are definitely the highest quality, as the country dominated!

In men's cross-country, the 50km mass start is one of the focal events.  Alexander Bolshunov of the Russian Olympic Committee won gold, his third gold - and fifth overall medal - of these Olympic games.  Bolshunov finished just ahead of compatriot Ivan Yakimushkin who won silver and Norway's Simen Hegstad Krueger, who won bronze.

Staying on skis, the Alpine Mixed-Team parallel was held. In the mixed-team parallel, teams of four skiers, two men and two women, pair off and go head-to-head with an opponent.  In the four races, the team that wins the most races advances.  If the match ends up 2-2, the tiebreaker is the combined fastest time of the fastest man and fastest woman.  Austria won gold, Germany won silver, and Norway earned silver.  Norway defeated the US 2-2 via tiebreaker in the bronze medal match, in what was Mikaela Shiffrin's last chance to win a medal in Beijing.  Interestingly, in each match, one man and one woman from each team races the red course, and one races the blue course.  Throughout the medal rounds, in the 16 races the skier on the red course NEVER won.  Something seems weird, there.

The gold medal match was held in men's curling, with Sweden defeating Great Britain 5-4.  Sweden, behind their skip Niklas Edin, finally wins gold after finishing 4th in Vancouver 2010, winning bronze in Sochi in 2014, silver in Pyeongchang in 2018, and finally, gold in Beijing.

Figure skating wrapped up its competition with the long program of the pairs event.  Sui Weijing and Han Cong from the host country China won the gold medal, outskating a pair of pairs from the Russian Olympic Committee in Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov (silver) and Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov (bronze).

The final speed skating events were held, the men's and women's mass start.  In the mass start, the athletes are paired into qualifying heats - then semis - then the finals.  The race is 16 full laps, but with intermediate sprint points awarded at the end of laps 4, 8, and 12, and final points awarded at the finish.  The skaters that advanced are determined by the total points earned - although the final points are so high that the first four are guaranteed to advance.  In the finals, the first three to finish win the medals, but 4th through 16th place are determined by points, with time as the tiebreaker.

In the men's mass start, Bart Swings of Belgium wins gold, with Chung Jae Won of South Korea winning silver and Lee Seung Hoon, also of South Korea, earning bronze.  Swings controlled the tempo of the semifinal and final to win Belgium's first Winter Olympics gold medal since 1948 - in pairs figure skating. 

In the women's mass start, Irene Schouten of the Netherlands, won gold over Ivanie Blondin of Canada (silver) and Italy's Francesca Lollabrigida (bronze).  Schouten, in winning the gold medal earned her third of these games, to go along with a bronze in the team pursuit.

Athletes of the Day: Alexander Bolshunov, Russian Olympic Committee, Cross-Country Skiing; Irene Schouten, The Netherlands, Speed Skating

Bolshunov won the 50km mass start in cross-country skiing, for his third gold and fifth medal of these games.  Schouten won the mass start for her third gold and fourth medal of Beijing.

Teamwork/Sportsmanship Moment of the Day: Kai Verbij, The Netherlands, Speedskating

Verbij is the reigning world champion in the 1,000 meters.  In his heat with Canada's Laurent Dubreuil, Dubreuil was flying.  In speedskating, the skaters switch lanes on the backstretch so that both skaters actual skate the same distance.  In switching the lanes, the outside lane coming in has the right-of-way, and in this race that was Verbij.  However, Dubreuil was flying, and much faster than Verbij.  Verbij noticed that, and held up to allow Dubreuil to switch lanes first.  This cost Verbij a lot of his speed, and a lot of time (he finished last).  But, it also kept him from colliding with Dubreuil during the race (and likely disqualifying himself).  Dubreuil went on the finish second and win the silver medal.  Verbij stated that he didn't have the speed to keep up, and pulling up allowed Dubreuil to keep his speed/momentum.  Good sportsmanship on Verbij's part, even though it meant he would finish in last.

Olympic Term of the Day: Chicane - In bobsled, a sequence of tight serpentine curves.

Olympic Events Watched: Alpine Skiing, Bobsled, Cross-Country Skiing, Curling, Figure Skating, Speed Skating

USA Potential Closing Ceremony Flag-Bearer(s):  Nick Baungartner, Nathan Chen, Kaillie Humphries, Erin Jackson, Lindsey Jacobellis, Chloe Kim, ELANA MEYERS-TAYLOR 

Olympics - Beijing 2022 - Day 10

 Day 10 - February 13, 2022

Not as much Olympic stuff today, since it was Super Bowl Sunday, but some pretty cool things happening for the U.S. squad nonetheless.

In men's hockey, the United States wins its group, going undefeated after beating Germany 3-2.  Next stop for the Americans is the quarterfinals.

In short track speedskating, the women from the Netherlands won the 3000m relay, giving Suzanne Schulting her third gold medal of the games (with 1 silver also).  In winning the gold, the team broke their own Olympic record in defeating South Korea (silver) and China (bronze).  It was an emotional win for the Netherlands, who were without the reigning 500m world champion and member of the 2018 Pyeongchang championship relay team Lara van Ruijven, who died in July 2020 after discovering an autoimmune disorder.

Hungary's Shaoang Liu won gold in the men's 500 meter, defeating an excited Konstantin Ivliev of the Russian Olympic Committee and Steven Dubois of Canada, who joined him on the podium with silver and bronze respectively.

In the figure skating arena, the ice dancing concluded with Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France easily winning gold, beating out world champions Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov from the Russian Olympic Commitee who won silver, and the American teams of Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue (bronze medalists) and Madison Chock and Evan Bates (4th place).

The bronze in ice dancing was not the only medal won by the Americans yesterday, as Erin Jackson won gold in the women's 500 meter speedskating event, becoming the first black woman to win a medal in Olympic speedskating history.  Jackson, the world number 1 ranked skater at 500 meters, and whose Olympic trial stumble caused her to finish 3rd and almost miss the Olympics if not for Brittany Bowe's decision to give up her 500 meter spot on the team, beat Japan's Takagi Miho by .08 seconds.  Miho settled for the bronze.

And the United States wasn't finished.  Over in the sliding sports, the last two runs in the monobob were completed, and the Americans dominated with a 1-2 finish.  Recently sworn-in citizen Kaillie Humphries dominated for the gold, while Elana Meyers Taylor progressed steadily each run, going for 4th after 2 runs, to 3rd after the 3rd run, and into the sliver medal after her final run!

The four medals on the day bring the United States into 4th place, behind Norway, Russian Olympic Committee and Germany.

Athlete of the Day:  Kaillie Humphries dominated, and Suzanne Schulting is putting up a performance for the ages, but this award goes to Erin Jackson.  When you can be the first of anything in 2022, you will get saluted.

Teamwork/Sportsmanship Moment of the Day - Iivo Niskanen, Finland, Cross-Country Skiing

Most of the awards for this category have involved "teamwork," but today's is definitely about sportsmanship.  Niskanen took home gold in the 15km cross-country race finishing in 37:54.08, beating Alexander Bolsunov from the Russian Olympic Committee (who won silver) by approximately 23 seconds.  However, it wasn't the difference in time between Niskanen and Bolsunov that people took note of, but rather the difference between Niskanen's time and that of Columbia's Andres Quintana.  When Quintana finished his 15 kilometers in 55:41.09 seconds - last in the entire Olympic field of 95 skiers - Niskanen was waiting to greet him.  Before leaving the track to begin his cooldown or to celebrate his victory, Niskanen waited for every last contender to finish, because "All athletes must respect each other, everyone has worked hard to be here.  You have to show this kind of respect at the Olympics towards countries that don't have much budget to get the best results, unlike the best nations."  It should be noted that the Norwegian bronze medalist Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway also waited around to congratulate Quintana on finishing.  Now THAT is the Olympic spirit.

Olympic Term of the Day: Impeding - In short track speedskating, impeding is "intentionally pushing, blocking, tripping or otherwise causing an impediment for another skater."  This results in a penalty for the offending skater, and could cause the impeded skater to advance to the next round, no matter where that skater finished in the race.

Olympic Events Watched: Bobsled, Curling, Figure Skating, Hockey, Short Track Speedskating, Speedskating

USA Potential Closing Ceremony Flag-Bearer(s):  Nick Baungartner, Nathan Chen, Kaillie Humphries, Erin Jackson, Lindsey Jacobellis, Chloe Kim, Hilary Knight, Elana Meyers Taylor

Olympics - Beijing 2022 - Day 9

Day 9 - February 12, 2022

Not a ton of finals going on today, as there are a lot of qualifying and preliminary events.  Plus Kentucky basketball was on, so I had to watch that!

In figure skating, the ice dancing competition started with its short program, otherwise entitled rhythm dance.  The Americans are poised to win medal(s) as they finished 3rd and 4th in the rhythm dance.  Finals after the Super Bowl.

Staying on skates, the Japanese women's 3000m pursuit team set the Olympic record in the quarterfinals, with Canada and the Netherlands right behind them.  This sets up a potentially amazing semi-finals and a superfast finals early next week.

Switching to skis, the Russian Olympic committee cruised to a gold in the women's 4 x 5km relay, easily outdistancing Germany and Sweden, which finished second and third.

In the women's 10km pursuit biathlon, Marte Olsbu Roeiseland from Norway won her third gold medal (and fourth overall) of these Olympics.  She won by missing only 1 of 20 shots, allowing her to win by over 1 minute and 26 seconds over silver medalist Elvira Oeberg of Sweden.

On the men's side, Johannes Thingnes Boe won his second gold of these Olympics in the men's 7.5 km sprint.  France's winner of the 20km, Quentin Fillon Maillet wins silver, and Boe's Norwegian teammate - AND BROTHER - joined him on the podium as Tarjei Boe earned bronze.

In ski jumping, Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi could not follow-up his normal hill gold with a second gold, settling for the silver medal behind Marius Lindvik of Norway.  Germany's Karl Geiger, who is ranked number one in the world but only finished 15th in the normal hill, won bronze.  Two-time defending champion Kamil Stoch of Poland had to settle for fourth.

In sliding sports, the monobob made its Olympic debut.  After two heats - the halfway point, American Kaillie Humphries sits in first and fellow American Elana Meyers Taylor sits in fourth place, one-tenth of a second out of third.

Athletes of the Day - Marte Olsbu Roiselend, Norway, Biathlon

As stated above, Roiselend won her third gold of Beijing!

Teamwork/Sportsmanship Moment of the Day - Elana Meyers Taylor, United States, Bobsled

Meyers Taylor was America's number 1 bobsled driver, having won 3 Olympic medals.  Enter Kaillie Humphries, her primary Canadian rival.  Humphries, who is married to an American, sued to be able to slide for the USA due to allegations surrounding a Canadian coach that took pictures of the women sledders in various stages of undress.  When she won, Meyers Taylor accepted her into the team, knowing that her primary competitor was now her primary competitor for sledding teams.  Nevertheless, Meyers Taylor is still in medal range in the monobob, and looks to challenge for medals in the other seldding races as well.

Olympic Term of the Day: Monobob - A sled race in which only one competitor enters the bobsled, acting as sole pusher, driver and brake(wo)man.  The monobob is only competed by females.

Olympic Events Watched: Bobsled, Cross-Country Skiing, Curling, Figure Skating, Skeleton, Ski Jumping, Speed Skating

USA Potential Closing Ceremony Flag-Bearer:  Nick Baumgartner, Nathan Chen, Chloe Kim, Hilary Knight, Lindsey Jacobellis

Olympics - Beijing 2022 - Day 1

 Day 1 - February 4, 2022

Hello, and welcome to the newest addition of the Daily Olympic blog!!!  Those that know me, know that the Olympics are the best part of the sporting calendar to me, and as such, I am going to try to keep up the ambitious schedule of one recap post for each day, focusing on the most important story/ies of the previous day, along with any other interesting or unusual stories.  Given the time zone differential between China and me, here in good old Eastern Standard Time, the official days may be off, as I will be reporting on when I see the events, which may be live, but may be off by a half day.  Deal with it, as I have to.

We will also have our guest poster return.  Those of you that actually read the blog may remember Miss Miss, who wrote a couple of posts during Tokyo 2020 (2021), and since she is just as big a fan of the Olympics as I am - maybe even more - she will return.

Back in Rio of 2016, I made a joke about Ryan Lochte not being selected as the flag-bearer.  At that point I decided to make a Ryan Lochte joke every day.  That was pretty easy at the beginning, but then became easier with his antics at the Rio gas station/convenience store, you know the one, where they may have taken gas and/or money, pissed on the outside wall and apparently tried to bribe the cops?  Boy did I have jokes.  I couldn't do that in Pyeongyang 2018, as Ryan Lochte wasn't involved in those Olympics.  But, the day 1 story gave me an idea.  At the team captains' meeting to decide the US flag-bearer for the Opening Ceremonies, apparently Erin Hamlin, the first American luger to medal in the Olympics and competing in her fourth Olympics tied Shanni Davis, the very talented, multi-medal winning speed-skater.  The teams then flipped a coin, which Hamlin won.  Davis was insulted and complained about the entire process.  So, that gave me the idea to do an "American Disappointment of the Day" segment.  I hope that something arises as a common theme for each post this year.

Speaking of flag-bearing, we have great stories with the selection of flag-bearers.  That is right, I said "flag-bearerS", plural.  (Cue How I Met Your Mother last season running joke).  We had three flag-bearers for the first time in history!  Why three?  Well, bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor and curler John Shuster were selected by the captains of each team (Excellent selections by the way).  However, Elana Meyers Taylor is in the Covid protocol, so she was replaced with the next highest vote-getter, speed skater Brittany Bowe.

Brittany Bowe has already shown the world what teamwork and selflessness means.  During the US Olympic trials, Brittany Bowe qualified for three individual events, including the 500 meters.  The 500 meters, which is not Bowe's specialty, is dominated by teammate Erin Jackson, who has won 4 of the past 8 events leading up to the Olympics.  In the Olympic trials, Jackson slipped, causing her to finish third in the trials.  Knowing that Jackson has a better chance to win a medal in the 500 meter, and that Bowe's best events are the 1,000 and 1,500 meter, Brittany Bowe resigned her spot in the 500 meter, giving way for Jackson, the third qualifier, to make the Olympic team.  Kudos to you Brittany!

Hey - that is my idea.  Each day I will feature something selfless, or some show of teamwork.

Not much occurred on the first day of the Olympics, and certainly no medals were awarded, so light blog day today.

Athlete of the Day - Nathan Chen, USA, Figure Skating

Nathan Chen has been the best figure skater in the world for a number of years, however in Pyeongchang in 2018, he fell in his opening skate in the short program, only to not recover despite skating flawlessly afterward.  Today, he skated as good a program as anyone in the short program of the team competition, putting the US solidly in first. 

Olympic Term of the Day:  Salchow - Figure Skating - A jump in figure skating with a backward takeoff from the backward inside edge of one skate to the backward outside edge of the other, with one or more full turns in the air

Olympic Events Watched:  Curling (Mixed Doubles), Figure Skating (Team), Opening Ceremonies

USA Potential Closing Ceremony Flag-Bearer:  Nathan Chen

Olympics - PyeongChang 2018 - Day 15

Day 15 - February 21

Lots of competition, lots of medals, and even lots of medals (8) for the United States!  Finally a great day for our red, white and blue.

In speed skating, both the men's and women's pursuit finals were held, and surprise, surprise, the Dutch medaled in both, winning bronze in the men's pursuit and silver in the women's.  In the men's Norway won gold over the locals from South Korea who won bronze.  In the women's event, Japan won gold over the Netherlands (silver) and the United States - yes the United States - earned a bronze!!!!  This is the first speed skating medal of any kind for the US since 2010, and the first women's medal since 2002.  Of course, in didn't come without controversy.  In the team pursuit, 3 skaters from each country skate simultaneously, with each team starting on a separate half of the oval.  The team's then "pursue" each other around the rink.  The time is calculated when the skate of the third skater finishes.  The skaters often take turns leading while the others draft, but for most of the race you want your two best skaters to be in the front and back, with that last skater literally pushing the middle racer at times.  Although three skaters for each country are on the ice at a time, the team consists of 4 skaters, any 3 of which can skate in any race.

The US drew the Netherlands in the semi-finals, and they thought it would be touch to beat the Dutch to make the gold medal match.  So, the US rested its fastest skater, Brittany Bowe, and replaced her with the slowest of the four, Carlijn Schoutens - who was instrumental in qualifying the US for the Olympics as Bowe and Heather Bergsma only skate in the pursuit in the Olympics.  Not only did Schoutens race in the semi-final, she was the lead skater for the US for almost the entirety of the race, leaving Bergsma and Mia Manganello to rest and draft off Shoutens.  The US was hammered by the Netherlands, but plenty rested up to defeat Canada two hours later in the bronze medal match, which featured the return of Bowe.

The finals of the half-pipe in men's freestyle skiing was held, and the United States, behind David Wise (gold) and Alex Ferreira (silver) medaled as did 16 year old Nico Porteous of New Zealand.

Jamie Anderson narrowly missed becoming the first American woman to win two gold medals at a single Olympics since Bonnie Blair, by winning silver after a spectacular run by Austria's Anna Gasser in the women's snowboarding big air finals.

Another American woman chasing Bonnie Blair was Mikaela Shiffrin, who ultimately finished with the silver in the super combined, behind only Michelle Gisin of Switzerland.  Lindsay Vonn, the leader after the downhill portion of the combined, missed a gate in the slalom and DNF.

In the women's 2 person bobsled race, American driver Elana Meyers Taylor won her second straight silver medal (and third overall medal) along with her brakewoman Lauren Gibbs, falling behind only the powerful sled from Germany and just ahead of an equally powerful Canadian team.

As you can see in the above picture, in the women's cross-country team spring title, Kikkan Randall and Jessie Diggins of the United States won gold over skiing powerhouses Sweden and Norway.  Sweden's Stina Nilsson gave Diggins all she had, but Diggins won gold in the sprint finale as shown below.  Diggins, who twice finished 5th in these Olympics, anchored the gold-medal winning performance, which was the first medal in cross-country skiing for the United States since Bill Koch in 1976.

As exciting as that was, it pales in comparison the the U.S. Women's hockey team's 6 shot shootout victory for the gold medal over Canada.  Jocelyn Lamoureux triple deked the Canadian goaltender, who had no chance at stopping the ultimate winner.  This is the first shootout final in Olympics history, and was sweet revenge for the US after losing in overtime to Canada last year, earing the US their first gold since 1998 in Nagano.  For this, the US hockey team, and specifically Jocelyn Lamoureux are the Performers of the Day.

The American Disappointment of the Day was Lindsay Vonn, who did not finish the slalom portion of the super combined after leading the event after the downhill portion.

Events Watched:  Men's Curling; Women's Bobsled; Men's Speed Skating; Women's Alpine Skiing; Men's Freestyle Skiing