Monday, February 12, 2018

XXIII Olympic Winter Games, Pyeongchang 2018 (Day 4)

Medals standings as of about 11:25 Tuesday morning in Pyeongchang:

1. Germany 4 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze
2. Netherlands 3, 2, 2
3. Norway 2, 4, 3
4. Canada 2, 4, 1
5. United States 2, 1, 1
6. France 2, 0, 1
7. Sweden 1, 1, 0
T8. Austria 1, 0, 0
T8. South Korea 1, 0, 0
10. Japan 0, 1, 2
11. Czech Republic 0, 1, 1
T12. Australia 0, 1, 0
T12. Slovakia 0, 1, 0
14. Finland 0, 0, 2
T15. Italy 0, 0, 1
T15. Kazakhstan 0, 0, 1

Previous reports:

-- I Olympic Winter Games, Chamonix 1924
-- II Olympic Winter Games, Saint Moritz 1928

-- VIII Olympic Winter Games, Squaw Valley 1960
-- XII Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1976 
-- XVII Olympic Winter Games, Lillehammer 1994
-- XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi 2014

-- XXIII Olympic Winter Games, Pyeongchang 2018 (Preface)
-- XXIII Olympic Winter Games, Pyeongchang 2018 (Introduction/Day 0)
-- XXIII Olympic Winter Games, Pyeongchang 2018 (Day 1)
-- XXIII Olympic Winter Games, Pyeongchang 2018 (Day 2)
-- XXIII Olympic Winter Games, Pyeongchang 2018 (Day 3)

21 comments:

  1. Medals standings as of about 11:30 Tuesday morning, after 17-year-old Chloe Kim of Long Beach, California, and 21-year-old Arielle Gold of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, claim gold and bronze, respectively, in women's halfpipe snowboarding:

    1. Germany 4 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze
    2. Netherlands 3, 2, 2
    3. United States 3, 1, 2
    4. Norway 2, 4, 3
    5. Canada 2, 4, 1
    6. France 2, 0, 1
    7. Sweden 1, 1, 0
    T8. Austria 1, 0, 0
    T8. South Korea 1, 0, 0
    10. Japan 0, 1, 2
    11. Czech Republic 0, 1, 1
    T12. Australia 0, 1, 0
    T12. China 0, 1, 0
    T12. Slovakia 0, 1, 0
    15. Finland 0, 0, 2
    T16. Italy 0, 0, 1
    T16. Kazakhstan 0, 0, 1

    It's always about this point in the Winter Olympics where I've decided I'm going to give up on the Dolphins, Bullets, A's, Wildcats, etc., and just follow stuff like snowboarding.

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  2. Medal race in women's singles luge ahead on NBC Sports Network ... Germany's Natalie Geisenberger (the Sochi 2014 gold medalist) and Tatjana Hüfner (the Vancouver 2010 gold medalist) are first and second after the first three runs. Erin Hamilin of Remsen, New York, whose bronze in Sochi was the first women's singles luge medal won by a U.S. athlete, is in fifth place and about a tenth of a second off the pace of third-place Alex Gough of Canada. Total time over all four runs determines the final standings in luge races.

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  3. Nope. No dice for Erin Hamlin. "Lateral pressure out of Turn 10," says the NBC Sports commentator of Hamlin's dropping her feet to the ice to slow herself and straighten her sled (I think). It has been a ratty final run for Team USA--a horrifying crash for one, off-pace runs for two others. There will be no medals for the Americans in women's singles luge.

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  4. Now on the ice we have Canadian Gough, who is the last competitor with the opportunity to prevent a German sweep of the podium ...

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  5. Nope ... unless one of the former gold medalists underperform, the Germans, who are having a very strong Olympics, will sweep ...

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  6. But, no! Hüfner's last run drops her to third! Gough will stay on the podium. Now Geisenberger ...

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  7. Women's singles luge: 30-year-old Natalie Geisenberger--"currently a student with the German Federal Police at the Sports School in Bad Endorf," per Wikipedia--gold; 26-year-old Dajana Eitberger, silver, and 30-year-old Gough, a product of Canada's National Sport School, bronze.

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  8. Next up is men's sprint cross-country skiing. Norway got the gold at Sochi 2014; Sweden, silver and bronze. No American made it as far as the semifinals. Here's rock-solid Al Trautwig with a tape-delayed call of the quarterfinals in Pyeongchang ...

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    1. Nor does a member of Team USA make the men's sprint semis in 2018.

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  9. More Al, for the women's sprint semis ...

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  10. HURRAH! Jessica Diggins, a 26-year-old from Afton, Minnesota, takes auto-qualifying second by a toe in the second semifinal in the women's sprint, so Team USA, which failed to medal in cross-country skiing at Sochi 2014, will have a shot in the women's sprint final.

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  11. OK, here's Al with the women's medals race. Ashton, Minesota, represent! The Sochi 2014 gold medalist, Norway's Maiken Caspersen Falla, pulls out to the early lead ...

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  12. Digging is currently sixth of six finalists, and that's where the lone American finalist finished in Sochi ...

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  13. The medalists appear to have separated themselves from the other three ...

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  14. Al cedes the mike to his crestfallen color commentator as the leaders head to the home stretch ...

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  15. Gold: Stina Nilsson of Sweden
    Silver: Falla of Norway

    Diggins comes in sixth.

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  16. And the men's sprint: Norway gold and Italy silver.

    The gold medalist is Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, a 21-year-old from Trondheim, Norway. Despite the sub-zero conditions, Klæbo went without a skull cap for the gold-medal race and obliterated the field with hard charges up the hills--"picking up seconds where other people rest," the NBC Sports Network color commentator (who is really good and exhuberant) said. This was his first Olympics. In the 11 World Cup races Klæbo contested this season, he won nine. Al suspects we're going to be hearing about Klæbo for the next several Olympics, and I suspect Al is right.

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  17. Tom von Hammond back on the tape-delayed speed skating mike … men’s 1,500 meters: Kjeld Nuis and Patrick Roest of the Netherlands, gold and silver, and Kim Min-seok, South Korea, bronze. Top American finisher was eighth-place Joey Mantia, 32, of Ocala, Florida. At Sochi 2014, the medalists were Poland, Netherlands and Canada, with the top-Team USA finish being seventh.

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  18. Ah, great! Big NBC opens the prime-time show with the Tom Hammond men's 1,500 replay. Lexington, represent!

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