Day 6 - Mid Day February 9 to Mid Day February 10 - Beijing time

Shaun White (86,25), Taylor Gold (83.50) and Chase Josey (69.50), all of the USA, advanced to the men's Snowboard Halfpipe finals.

Paula Moltzan (1:46.18), Katie Hensien (1:49.31) and AJ Hurt (1:52.19), all of the USA, finished 8th, 26th and 34th respectively in the women's Alpine skiing Slalom.

Lindsey Jacobellis and Stacy Gaskill, both of the USA, advanced to the semifinals of the women's Snowboard Cross. Lindsey Jacobellis advanced to the big finals. Stacy Gaskill advanced to the small final.

American Lindsey Jacobellis wins gold in women's Snowboard Cross. Chloe Trespeuch of France wins silver and Meryeta Odine of Canada wins bronze. Stacy Gaskill of the USA finished 3rd in the small final.

Ben Loomis (26:57.8), Jared Shumate (27:10), Fletcher Taylor (27:50.9) and Stephen Schumann (27:52.4), all of the USA, finished 15th, 19th, 24th and 25th respectively in the men's Nordic Combined Individual Gundersen Normal Hill/10KM, Cross Country

Andrew Heo and Ryan Pivirotto, both of the USA, did not advance to the men's Short Track Speed Skating 1500M semifinals.

The USA men's curling team of John Shuster, Chris Plys, Matt Hamilton and John Landsteiner beat the ROC 6-5 in the round robin.

The USA women's 3000M Short Track Speed Skating relay team of Kristen Santos, Corin Stoddard, Maame Biney and Julie Letai finished 4th in the semifinals and qualified for the B finals. 

Zach DiGregorio/Sean Hollander (1:58.515) of the USA finished 11th in men's Luge Doubles.

Andrew Blaser (1:01.80) of the USA finished 20th in men's Skeleton Heat 1 and finished 21st (2:03.88) after heat 2.

Chloe Kim (94.00) of the USA wins gold in women's Snowboard Halfpipe. Queralt Castellet (90.25) of Spain wins silver and Sena Tomita ( 88.25) of Japan wins bronze.

The USA women's curling team of Tabitha Peterson, Nina Roth, Becca Hamilton, and Tara Peterson beat the ROC 9-3 in the round robin.

Hagen Kearney ( 1:17.81), Nick Baumgartner (1:18.01), Jake Vedder (1:17.88) and Mick Dierdorff, (1:18.64), all of the USA, are seeded 7th, 10th, 18th and 20th after the first run of the men's Snowboard Cross seeding. In run 2, Jake Vedder is seeded 2nd and Mick Diedorff is seeded 4th for places 17-32 in the first run.

Nathan Chen of the USA wins gold in the men's Figure Skating- Free Skate with a Free Skate Score of 218.63 and Total score of 332.60. Yuma Kagiyama of Japan wins silver with a Free Skate score of 201.93 and total score of 310.05 and Shoma Uno of Japan wins bronze with a Free Skate score of 187.10 and total score of 293.00. Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan finished 4th with a Free skate score of 188.06 and toal score of 283.21. Junhwan Cha of Korea finished 5th with a Free Skate score of 182.87 and total score of 282.38 and Jason Brown of the USA finished 6th with a Free Skate score of 184.00 and total score of 281.24.

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Medal Count as of 1:00 am Eastern Time February 10

ROC           2 gold, 3 silver, 6 bronze - 11 total

Norway      4 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze - 10 total

Austria       2 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze - 10 total

USA           3 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze -  9 total

Germany    5 gold, 3 silver, 0 bronze -  8 total

Canada       1 gold, 2 silver, 5 bronze -  8 total

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

Day 7

In the women's skeleton, Noelle Pikus-Pace of the USA wins silver. Elizabeth Yarnold of Great Britain wins gold and Elena Nikitina of Russia wins bronze. Katie Uhlaender of the USA finished 4th.

Jason Brown and Jeremy Abbott, both of the USA, finish 9th and 12th respectively in the men's figure skating free skate.

In the men's Super Combined Slalom, Bode Miller of the USA finished 6th while Americans Jared Goldberg finished 11th and Ted Ligety finished 12th.

Americans Emily Cook and Ashley Caldwell finished 8th and 12th place respectively in women's freestyle skiing aerials.

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Medal Count after Day 7

USA 4 gold, 3 silver, 6 bronze - 13 total
Norway 4 gold, 3 silver, 6 bronze - 13 total
Netherlands 4 gold, 3 silver, 5 bronze - 12 total
Russia 2 gold, 5 silver, 5 bronze - 12 total
Canada 4 gold, 5 silver, 2 bronze - 11 total
Germany 7 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze - 10 total