Day 8 Mid Day February 11 to Mid Day February 12 - Beijing time

The USA women's hockey team beat the Czech Republic 4-1 to advance to the semifinals.  The Czech republic took a 1-0 lead before Hillary Knight tied it at 1-1. Goals were scored by Lee Stecklein, Kendall Coyne Schofield and Savannah Harmon, as well as, Hilary Knight.

The USA women's Curling team of Tabitha Peterson, Nina Roth, Becca Hamilton and Tara Peterson beat China 8-4 in the round robin.

Scott Patterson (41:23.1), Ben Ogden (41:29.8), Gus Schumacher (41:53.4), and James Schoonmaker (43.31.6), all of the USA finished 38th, 42nd, 48th and 66th respectively in men's Cross Country skiing 15KM Classic.

Susan Dunklee, Joanne Reid, Deedra Irwin and Claire Egan, all of the USA, finished 27th, 34th, 37th and 46th respectively in the women's Biathlon 75.KM Sprint.

Corrine Stoddard (1:27.912), Maame Biney (1:29.225) and Kristen Santos (1:28.393), all of the USA, advanced to the semifinals of the women's Short Track Speed Skating 1000M.

Decker Dean (94.9), Casey Larson (89.2), Kevin Bickner (84.3), all of the USA, qualified for the first round of men's Ski Jumping- Large Hill Individual.

American Ryan Pivirotto (41.018) advanced to the quarterfinals of the men's Short Track Speed Skating 500M.

Kristen Santos (1:26.783) of the USA advanced to the women's Short Track Speed Skating 1000M "A" Final. Kristen Santos (1:42.745) finished 4th in the "A" Final.

Americans Maame Biney (1:28.806) and Corinne Stoddard (1:27.626), both of the USA, qualified for the women's Short Track Speed Skating 1000M "B" finals. Corrine Stoddard (1:29.845) finished 3rd and Maame Biney (1:30.736) finished 5th in the "B" Finals

The USA Mixed Snowboard Cross team of Jake Vedder and Faye Gulini did not advance to the semifinals.

The USA Mixed Snowboard Cross team of Nick Baumgartner and Lindsey Jacobellis wins gold. Italy wins silver and Canada wins bronze. 

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Medal Count as of 11:45pm Eastern Time February 11

Norway      6 gold, 3 silver, 5 bronze - 14 total

Austria       4 gold, 6 silver, 4 bronze - 14 total

Canada       1 gold, 4 silver, 8 bronze - 13 total

ROC           2 gold, 4 silver, 6 bronze - 12 total

Germany    7 gold, 4 silver, 0 bronze - 11 total

USA           5 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze - 11 total

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 7

Matt Antoine and John Daly, both of the USA, finished 11th and 16th respectively in men's Skeleton.

In women's round robin Curling, the USA lost to Switzerland 6-5.

The USA lost to Italy 10-9 and lost to Sweden 10-4 in men's round robin Curling.

The USA Luge relay team of Summer Britcher, Chris Mazdzer, Matthew Mortensen and Jayson Teriman finished 4th.

Ameericans Susan Dunklee, Joanne Firesteel-Reid and Clare Egan finished 19th, 22nd and 62nd respectively in women's Biathlon- 15KM Indiuidual.

Tim Burke, Sean Doherty, Lowell Baileyand Leif Nordgren, all of the USA, finished 41st, 44th, 51st and 66th respectively in the men's Biathlon- 20K Individual.

Americans Jessica Diggins, Sadie Bjornsen, Kikkan Randall and Elizabeth Stephen finished 5th, 15th, 16th and 30th respectively in women's Cross Country Skiing- 10KM Free.

Americans Madison Olsen and Kiley McKinnon qualified for the finals of women's Freestyle skiing Arials.

The USA Ice Hockey team beat Slovakia 2-1 in preliminary group B. Both USA goals were scored by Ryan Donato.

Ryan Cochran-Siegle, Jared Goldberg, both of the USA, finished in 14th and 24th place respectively in the men's Alpine skiing -Super G. Americans Ted Ligety and Andrew Weibrecht did not finish.

Americans Lindsey Jacobellis finished 4th in ladies Snowboard Cross. Americans Megan Tierney and Faye Gulini finished 17th and 21st respectively.

Mikaela Schiffrin of the USA finished 4th in women's Alpine skiing Slalom. Americans Megan McJames and Alice Merryweather finished in 36th and 42nd place respectively. American Resi Stiegler did not finish.

American Nathan Chen is in 17th place in the men's short program with a score of 82.27. Chen fell twice landing quads. American Adam Rippon is in 7th place with a score of 87.95 in the men's short program. Vincent Zhou of the USA is in 12th place in the men's short program with a score of 84.53.

Medal Count at 11:45 pm Eastern Time - Day 7

Norway 6 gold, 7 silver, 5 bronze - 18 total
Germany 9 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze - 15 total
Canada 4 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze - 13 total
Netherlands 5 gold, 5 silver, 2 bronze - 12 total
USA 5 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze - 8 total

Day 9

In men's Alpine Skiing Super G, Americans Andrew Weibrecht wins silver and Bode Miller ties for bronze. Bode tied Jan Hudec of Canada. Kjetil Jansrud of Norway wins gold.

USA men's hockey team beat Slovenia 5-1. The USA wins group A.

Americans Faye Gulini finished 4th and Lindsey Jacobellis finished 7th in ladies Snowboard Cross.

In figure skating, Charlie White and Meryl Davis of the USA are in 1st place after the Ice dancing short dance. Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates are in 8th place and Americans Alex and Maia Shibutani are in 9th place.

Heather Richardson of the USA finished 7th and Brittany Bowe, also of the USA finished 14th in ladies 1500M speedskating.

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Medal Count after Day 9

Netherlands 5 gold, 5 silver, 7 bronze - 17 total
Russia 4 gold, 7 silver, 5 bronze - 16 total
USA 4 gold, 4 silver, 8 bronze - 16 total
Norway 5 gold, 3 silver, 6 bronze - 14 total
Canada 4 gold, 6 silver, 4 bronze - 14 total
Germany 7 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze - 12 total