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The ladies’s B ultimate within the 1500 m pace skate is about to start out.
Unusual occasion. Surprise how motivated the athletes are. They’re competing to complete the Video games in eighth. I assume it’s higher than ending ninth, and so forth.
USA and Slovakia commerce penalties. The Individuals are firmly answerable for that match.
Suzanne Schulting all however blames the ice for her crash within the 1500m semi finals.
She’s dissatisfied. And honest play. She’s not the one skater who has taken subject with the ice in a single specific nook.
She was a favorite for so as to add to her six Olympic medals – three gold, two silver and one bronze). To not be this time.
Lizzy Yarnold, a former British skeleton racer and Olympic champion, has spun a yarn in your studying pleasure:
USA take a 2-0 lead into the break.
A Tage Thompson purpose simply earlier than the shut of the primary interval has America main Slovakia within the males’s ice hockey semi finals.
That’s a mighty present for the Netherlands within the pace skating.
4 particular person golds and now one other within the relay.
🥇 Netherlands win gold in males’s 5000m pace skate relay
Korea had been main with a number of laps to go however a mistake opened the door for the Netherlands who pounced and bagged gold!
Korea end in second, Italy make do with gold.
Canada end fourth.
5 laps. Korea made an enormous mistake and are in the back of the sector. Netherlands out in entrance.
8 laps.
Korea stretch their lead. There’s a mistake. Netherlands shut the hole.
10 laps to go.
Korea take the lead.
Now they’re getting a transfer on. 15 laps to go.
Korea shoot for first place however Netherlands nonetheless main. Canada and Italy contact. They’re so shut as they acquire pace.
25 laps to go and Italy shift to the entrance for the primary time.
Not for lengthy as Netherlands squeeze by means of.
Canada taking part in catch up having fallen a little bit behind.
40 laps to go.
All clean crusing to date.
Canada with the early lead. However actually none of this issues till the previous few laps (sorry 5,000m pace skating diehards).
I’ve been utilizing ‘South Korea’ after I must be utilizing ‘Republic of Korea’.
Apologies if anybody picked up on that and bought aggravated. No extra! I promise.
Righto, 5,000 metres. 4 groups of 4 skaters. Absolute insanity on ice.
Right here. We. Go!
The finalists for the lads’s 5000m relay are preparing.
Reminder it’ll be South Korea, Netherlands, Canada and Italy.
China win the B ultimate within the males’s 5000m relay.
Which means they’ll depart Italy with a fifth place end.
I benefit from the relay skating.
My favorite half is when the one skater pushes their teammate on the bum to provide them a little bit launch.
Earlier than the ladies’s 1500m pace skate, we’ve bought the lads’s 5000m relay.
First the B Closing (actually, only a method to rank them) with Belgium, China, Hungary and japan competing for fifth.
We’ll then get South Korea, Netherlands, Canada and Italy taking pictures out for medals.
Virtually not possible to make sense of the ice hockey between USA and Slovakia.
The Individuals are carrying white jerseys with blue trim. The Slovaks are carrying blue jerseys with white trim. They’re each carrying blue trousers. There are splashes of pink in each kits.
That is what a herd of stampeding zebra should appear to be to a lion.
Italy’s Arianna Sighel sneaks by means of to the ultimate by advantage of being the quickest skater to complete third.
The finalists within the girls’s 1500m pace skate can be:
🥉 Switzerland win bronze in males’s curling
They had been gutted to lose to GB final evening, however that’s not a nasty comfort prize.
They crush Norway 9-1 and can depart Italy with one thing to point out their grandkids.
The ice on the pace skating observe (observe?) is getting some repairs. The skaters have reportedly complained about the identical nook. A couple of crashes to date in the identical spot.
Huge names fall within the semi-finals!
Each Xandra Velxeboer from the Netherlands and Italy’s Elisa Confortola crash out.
Which means China’s Yang Jingru and Hong Kong’s Lam Cy advance to the ultimate.
Confortola has been superior to the B ultimate.
The USA lead 1-0 Slovakia within the males’s ice hockey semi-final!
An early purpose, clocked in at 4:19, is scored by Dylan Larkin of the Detroit Pink Wings.
Second semi-final. The highest ranked skater is Canada’s Courtney Sarault, who’s second on the planet.
No relaxation for the legend. Fontana is again in motion within the semi-finals.
She makes it by means of in second place behind South Korea’s Kim Gilli.
These quick observe racers are chaotic. Two skaters crashed and would require a re-assessment with VAR (sure, skating has it too).
So seems Fontana suffered a giant crash within the quarterfinals.
The warmth was restarted with two of the skaters penalised. Fontana then made it by means of in second place.
The semi-finals within the girls’s quick observe pace skating is beginning quickly.
Arianna Fontana, Italy’s most profitable Winter Olympian with 4 golds, six silvers (together with on right here within the relay) and 5 bronze medals, safely progressed.
Switzerland have one hand on the bronze medal (does that work?) within the males’s curling.
They’re 6-1 up over Norway within the ninth finish.
🥇 USA’s Alex Ferreira wins gold in males’s freeski halfpipe!
Brendan Mackay regarded a positive factor however the judges scored his flawless run a 93 and that’s not sufficient to maneuver from tenth to first.
The Canadian has to accept third however continues to be delighted.
Which means Ferreira takes the gold. He seems to be relieved greater than something.
Estonia win their first medal of the Video games as 19-year-old Henry Sildaru secures silver.
GB’s Gus Kenworthy finishes fifth with a rating of 84.75.
Podium:
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🥇 Ferreira 🇺🇸 – 93.75
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🥈 Sildaru 🇪🇪 – 93
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🥉 Mackay 🇨🇦 – 91
Beautiful from Mackay! He appears assured that he’s completed sufficient. What a clutch run. He’s already receiving congratulations from his rivals. We await the rating.
Only one extra run for Canada’s Brendan Mackay. Can he come from tenth and safe a medal?
Big crash for Goepper! He landed flat on his again on high of the half-pipe. My phrase, that regarded actually, actually dangerous. He bought up immediately however he’s receiving speedy medical consideration.
What a disgrace. That was a spectacular run til that time. He was trying an enormous 900 and, in keeping with the commentators, he was on observe for a rating of 99.
He’s strolling off the observe with a limp. I’ve to say after I noticed that in actual time I believed he’d be in large bother. However he’s OK. What a machine. I hope he will get a medal only for that.
Sildaru seems to be so informal as he pulls off beautiful tips. Virtually as if he’s movijng in sluggish movement.
Has he completed sufficient!
NO! It’s a rating of 93. 0.75 behind Ferreira!
Goepper, at the moment in third, and Mackay, approach again within the discipline however with potential to medal, the remaining athletes.
Ferreira crosse the road twirling considered one of his poles above his head. He’s assured he’s improved on his rating of 90.5 sufficient to maneuver above Sildaru in first on 92.75.
He’s landed each trick, however there are questions over the variation and top he managed. Did he play it too secure?
It’s sufficient! He strikes into the gold medal spot with 93.75!
We’ve bought a contest on our arms now. Three males left. The three highest from qualifying.
Subsequent up is Sildaru. Can he take again the gold medal?
Birk Irving – one other one with a reputation that may solely come from America – begins his ultimate run with a swap double 10. He’ began this in fourth. He closes it with an honest transfer – a ‘flat 10’ in keeping with the commentators – however he doesn’t appear satisfied he’s completed sufficient to enhance his rating.
He does enhance by half a degree, scoring 88, however he can’t transfer up the leaderboard and stays simply in need of a medal.
Marineau is such a vibe! For the third time he can’t full his run as he insists on going for large air. He can’t make it work however he retains the gang entertained, pulling off a trick that sees him move the poles between his legs twice whereas he hangs within the air. I don’t know the way else to explain it.
These guys are so spectacular. Happening a mountain on skis is difficult sufficient. Ripping up a halfpipe is bonkers.
Ah no! Kenworthy can’t enhance on his rating. No medal for the Brit. He needed to push it with this ultimate run and began effectively, however a little bit wobble derailed momentum and when he got here out of a giant transfer and landed backwards, he couldn’t make it stick.
No enchancment on his rating so he stays in fifth.
The ladies’s 1500m pace skating is underway. It’s the quarterfinals. We’ll be watching that because it develops.
For now, right here’s GB’s Kenworthy together with his ultimate run on the halfpipe.
Eire’s lynch saves his greatest for final. He nails an enormous trick together with his ultimate carry, touchdown backwards from a mighty top. He celebrates as he crosses the road and loses his skis. However he’s all smiles and leapfrogs Harrington to seventh with a 75.
Righto, ultimate run within the males’s freeski halfpipe.
Would possibly come right down to who can keep on their skis from begin to end.
New Zealand’s Ben Harrington will get us going and improves on his rating with a 73.75. It places him in seventh.
Norway are on the board in opposition to Switzerland, however they’re a good distance again within the bronse medal match of the lads’s curling.
Within the sixth finish, it’s Switzerland 4-1 Norway.
So, after two runs, right here’s the highest 5 within the males’s freeski halfpipe
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🇪🇪 Sildaru 92.75
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🇺🇸 Ferreira 90.5
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🇺🇸 Goepper 89
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🇺🇸 Irving 87.5
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🇬🇧 Kenworthy 84.75
Kenworthy drops right down to fifth as Geopper from America slots into third.
He was bold, however a little bit sloppy, not fairly nailing the touchdown with each trick as he registers a rating of 89.
One ultimate ski on this second spherical. Mackay from Canada it’s.
It’s a fantastic run, reaching a top of 5.3 metres together with his first trick, till the final the place he crosses the road on his bottom. A rating of 53 is disappointing however he clearly has sufficient within the locker to push for a medal.
We now have a brand new chief! Estonia’s 19-year-old Sildaru posts a 92.75!
Kenworthy is out of the medal spots. Lastly, a little bit of high quality has exploded on the halfpipe.
That’s extra prefer it! Alex Ferreira raises the bar with a superb run, nailing each trick, getting nice air and sticking each touchdown.
He strikes to the highest of the leaderboard with a 90.50.
Hunter Hess bails for the second time. One of many favourites now has yet one more likelihood to finish with a medal.
He limps away. That was a giant fall. He’s OK however the smile after the primary fall have evaporated. Now he’s feeling the strain.
An awesome run from America’s Irving has him nudge forward of Britain’s Kenworthy after two runs within the males’s freeski halfpipe.
He scores 87.5, dropping Kenworthy, who scored 84.75, right down to second. Canada’s Longino is in third with 76.5.
A reminder that each skier has three runs to register a excessive rating.
One other disappointing present from the Brits within the 2-woman bobsleigh.
Adele Nicoll and Ashleigh Nelson enhance on their horror first run, however they clip the wall on the best way down and place in fifth.
One other one goes down! Canada’s Marineau plugs it for the second time in two runs.
He will get outrageous air as soon as once more however can’t full the run. He doesn’t appear bothered in any respect as he goes up and offers some excessive fives within the crowd. He’s having fun with himself.
Right here comes Gus Kenworthy. Can he full his second run?
Begins with a giant trick. Virtually stacks it together with his second however holds on. Slick together with his ultimate transfer and makes it to the top.
Not spectacular, however with everybody bailing he has no less than bought factors on the board and has given himself a shot of a medal together with his ultimate run.
And he tops the charts! He scores 84.75.
You by no means know.
Norway open up a 4-0 lead over Switzerland within the males’s curling bronze medal match.
They’re within the fourth finish.
One other one eats it! America’s Nick Goepper.
Right here’s our ultimate skier Brendan Mackay who certified first and he additionally bails!
My phrase. Out of the 11 skiers, solely two accomplished their runs. South Korea’s Lee Seunghun by no means took half.
That implies that Ben Harrington, who began the spherical, is within the silver medal spot.
It received’t keep this manner, however what a bizarre scoreboard. Two out of 11! That’s insanity.
As a result of the skiers have three runs to put up a high rating they’re being aggressive with their first run.
That’s why, in keeping with the commentators, we’re seeing a number of of them bail. Makes for thrilling viewing.
One other one goes down! Estonia’s Henry Sildaru is the most recent.
Ah, what a disgrace! Hunter Hess – the American with the excellent title – was so near finishing a superb run however simply had his ski dig into the snow as he got here out of his ultimate truck. It means he closes with a 27.25. That most likely would have been a desk topping rating.
Solely two of the seven males who’ve accomplished a run haven’t bailed.