Day 5 - Mid Day February 8 to Mid Day February 9 - Beijing Time

Nathan Chen of the USA leads the Figure Skating men's short program with a score of 113.97. The score is the highest ever score for a short program. American Jason Brown is in 6th place in the short program with a score of 97.24. 

Figure Skating- men's short program results:

Nathan Chen, USA - 113.97

Yuma Kagiyama, Japan - 108.12

Shoma Uno, Japan - 105.90

Junhwan Cha, Korea - 99.81

Morisi Kvitelashvilim Georgia - 97.98

Jason Brown, USA - 97.24

Evgeni Semenenko, ROC - 95.76

Yuzuru Hanyu, Japan - 95.15

Keegan Messsing, Canada - 93.24

The USA women's hockey team lost to Canada 4-2 in the preliminary round group A. USA Goals were scored by Alex Carpenter and Dani Cameranesi. 

Joey Mantia (1:45.26), Emery Lehman (1:45.78) and Casey Dawson (1:49.45), all of the USA, finished 6th, 11th and 28th respectively in the men's Long Track Speed Skating 1500M.

Jessie Diggins and Rosie Brennan, both of the USA, qualified for the women's Cross Country skiing Sprint Free semifinal, both Americans advanced to the finals.

Jake Brown, Paul Schommer and Sean Doherty, all of the USA, finished 28th, 35th and 42nd respectively in the men's Biathlon 20KM.

Ben Ogden of the USA advanced to the men's Cross Country skiing Sprint Free semifinals but did not advance to the finals.

Ashley Farquharson (2:57.764), Summer Britcher (2:59.294) and Emily Sweeney (3:00.292), all of the USA, are in 17th, 23rd and 26th after 3 runs in women's singles luge. Only Ashley Farquharson is the only American to qualify for a 4th luge run. Ashley Farquharson finished in 12th place in a time of 3:56.407. 

Jessie Diggins (3:12.84) of the USA wins bronze in women's Cross Country skiing Sprint Free. Jonna Sundling (3:09.68) of  Sweden wins gold and Maja Dalhqvist ( 3:12.56) wins silver. American Rosie Brennan (3:14.17) finished 4th.

American Mikaela Shiffrin skied out on run 1 of the women's Alpine skiing Slalom and did not finish.

Paula Moltzan of the USA is in 6th place (52.79) after the first run of the women's Alpine skiing Slalom. Katie Hensien (55.43) and AJ Hurt (56.68), both of the USA, are in 31st and 40th place respectively after the first run.

Chloe Kim (87.75) of the USA advanced to the finals of the women's Snowboard Halfpipe. Tessa Maud (53.50) and Maddie Maestro (65.75) and Zoe Kalapos (51.75) all of the USA ,did not advance to the finals.

Colby Stevenson of the USA wins silver with runs of 91.75 and 91.25 for a total score of 183 in the men's freestyle skiing Freeski Big Air final. Birk Ruud of Norway wins gold with a score of 187.75 and Henrik Harlaut of Sweden wins bronze with a total score of 181. Alexander Hall (160.75) and Mac Foreland (80.25), both of the USA, finish 8th and 11th respectively.

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Medal Count as of 11:30pm Eastern Time February 8

ROC              2 gold, 3 silver, 5 bronze - 10 total

Norway         4 gold, 1 silver, 4 bronze -  9 total

Sweden         4 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze -  7 total

Netherlands  3 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze -  7 total

Italy              2 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze -  7 total

Austria          2 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze -  7 total

Canada          1 gold, 1 silver 4 bronze -  6 total

USA              0 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze -  6 total