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Friday, February 18, 2022

Day 15 - Mid Day February 18 to Mid Day February 19 - Beijing time




Tyler Wallasch of the USA finished 4th in men's Ski Cross 1/8 Final 2 and did not advance to the quarterfinals.

The USA men's curling team of John Shuster, Chris Plys, Matt Hamilton and John Landsteiner lost to Canada 8-5 in the bronze medal match. Canada wins bronze. Team Shuster finished 4th. Canada scored 2 in the first end to go up 2-0, then the USA scored 1 in the 2nd end to make it 2-1 Canada, scored 1 in the 3rd end to go up 3-1 Then USA scored 2 in the 4th end to tie it at 3-3 then Canada scored 1 in the 5th end go ahead 4-3. In the 6th end the USA scored 2 to lead Canada 5-4 but Canada scored 2 in the 8th end to lead 6-5 and Canada scored 2 in the 9th end to win 8-5. 

Deedra Irwin of the USA finished 23rd in the women's Biathlon 12.5KM Mass Start.

Jordan Stoltz (1:09.12) and Austin Kleba (1:10.57), both of the USA, finished 14th and 29th respectively in the men's Lon Track Speed Skating 1000M Final.

Alexa Knierim/Brandon Frazier (74.23 score) and Ashley Cain Gribble/Timothy Leduc (74.13 score), both of the USA ,are in 6th and 7th place respectively after the Figure Skating Pairs Short Program.

Elana Meyers Taylor/Sylvia Hoffman (1:01.26) and Kaillie Humphries/Kaysha Love (1:01.41), both of the USA, are in 3rd and 4th place respectively after heat 1 of the 2 woman Bobsleigh. Elana Meyers Taylor/Sylvia Hoffman (2:02.79) and Kaillie Humphries/Kaysha Love (2:03.38) are in 3rd and 5th place respectively after the conclusion of heat 2 of 2 woman Bobsleigh.

Hunter Church, Joshua Williamson, Kristopher  Horn and Charlie Volker (58.91) and Frank Delduca, Carlo Valdes, James Reed and Hakeem Abdul-Saboor (59.26), both Bobsleigh teams of the USA, are in 11th and 14th place respectively after heat 1 of 4 man Bobsleigh.

American David Wise scores a best score of 90.75 to win silver in men's Freestyle Skiing Freeski Halfpipe. Alex Ferreira of the USA wins bronze with a best score of 86.75 and Nico Porteous of New Zealand wins gold with a best score of 93.00. Birk Irving (80.00 best score) and Aaron Blunck (78.25 best score), both of the USA, finished 5th and 7th respectively.

Hunter Church, Joshua Williamson, Kristopher  Horn and Charlie Volker  (1:58.61) and Frank Delduca, Carlo Valdes, James Reed and Hakeem Abdul-Saboor (1:58.82), both Bobsleigh teams of the USA, are in 13th and 14th place respectively in the 4 man Bobsleigh after heat 2.

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Medal Count as of 11:30pm Eastern Time February 18

Norway        15 gold, 8 silver, 11 bronze - 34 total
ROC              5 gold, 9 silver, 13 bronze - 27 total
Canada          4 gold, 7 silver, 13 bronze - 24 total
USA              8 gold, 9 silver,   6 bronze - 23 total
Germany     10 gold, 7 silver,   5 bronze - 22 total

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Day 14 - Mid Day February 17 to Mid Day February 18 - Beijing time


The USA women's hockey team wins silver by losing to Canada 3-2. Canada wins gold. Canada scored the first 3 goals to make it 3-0, Then the USA's Hilary Knight makes it 3-1 in the 2nd period. Amanda Kessel scored the USA's second goal with 12 seconds left in the third period.

Aaron Blunck (92.00 best score), Birk Irving (89.75 best score), David Wise (89.00 best score) and Alex Ferreira (84.25 best score), all of the USA, finished 1st, 3rd, 4th and 7th to advance to the men's Freestyle Skiing Freeski Halfpipe final.

Tricia Mangan of the USA(slalom time 57.05 and total time 2:32.94) finished 11th in women's Alpine Skiing Combined. Isabella Wright, Keely Cashman and Mikaela Shiffrin, all of the USA, did not finish the slalom run.

Jasper Good (80.9 round points), Taylor Fletcher (85.0 round points), Jared Shumate (108.1 round points) and Ben Loomis (113.1 round), all of the USA, are in 7th place with 387,1 total points in the men's Nordic Combined Team Gundersen Large Hill/4by 5KM Ski Jumping Competition Round. The USA finished 6th in 53 minutes and .071 seconds after the men's Cross Country results.

American Brittany Bowe (1:14.61) wins bronze in the women's Long Track Speed Skating 1000M. Miho Takagi of Japan(1:13.19 OR) wins gold and Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands (1:13.83) wins silver, Kimi Goetz (1:15.50) of the USA finished 7th.

Alysa Liu of the USA finished 7th and scored a 139.45 in women's singles Free Skate for a total score of 208.95. American Mariah Bell finished 10th with a Free Skate Score of 136.92 and a total score of 202,30 and Karen Chen of the USA finished 16th with a Free Skate Score of 115.82 and total score of 179.93.Anna Shcherbakova of the ROC wins gold with a Free Skate score of 175.75 and a total score of 255.95. Alexandra  Trusova of the ROC wins silver with a Free Skate score of 177.13 and a total score of 251,73. Kaori Sakamoto of Japan wins bronze with a Free Skate score of 153.29 and total score of 233.13 and Kamila Valieva finished 4th with a Free Skate score of 141.93 and total score of 224.09.

The USA men's curling team of John Shuster, Chris Plys, Matt Hamilton and John Landsteiner lost to Great Britain 8-4 in the semifinals and now will face Canada for the bronze medal.

Hanna Faulhaber (85.25 best score), Brita Sigourney (70.75 best score) and Carly Margulies (61.00 best score), all of the USA , finish 6th, 10th and 11th respectively in the women's Freestyle skiing Freeski Halfpipe final.

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Medal Count as of 11:30pm Eastern Time February 17

Norway      14 gold, 7 silver, 8 bronze - 29 total
ROC            5 gold, 9 silver, 12 bronze - 26 total
Canada        4 gold, 6 silver, 12 bronze - 22 total
Germany    10 gold, 7 silver,  5 bronze - 22 total
USA             8 gold, 8 silver,  5 bronze - 21 total