Winter Olympics recap: Meyers Taylor finally gets gold for US and Eileen Gu wins second silver

MILAN (AP) — Small margins decided golden medals astatine the Milan Cortina Olympics arsenic Eileen Gu had to settee for different metallic successful defence of her large aerial skis freestyle rubric and Elana Meyers Taylor of the U.S. yet won bobsled golden successful her 5th Olympics.

Also connected Day 10 of the Winter Games, a Norwegian contender’s affectional absorption overshadowed the past men’s Alpine skis event, and the U.S. and Canada precocious to different golden medal showdown successful women's hockey aft winning their semifinal games.

Silver again for Gu successful large air

Gu came to Italy to combat for golden medals successful 3 antithetic freestyle skis events. She has 2 silvers and inactive has her champion event, the halfpipe, to go.

After a agelong hold due to the fact that of dense snow, it was Canada’s Megan Oldham who soared to triumph with a combined people of 180.75 to Gu's 179.

It was inactive a singular show from Gu, the San Francisco-born skier for China who hadn't competed successful large aerial successful the 4 years since winning golden astatine the 2022 Olympics.

The jock who bushed Gu to the golden successful slopestyle past week, Switzerland's Mathilde Gremaud, was ruled retired of the large aerial last erstwhile she injured her hep successful signifier hours before.

The hold is implicit for Meyers Taylor

Vancouver, Sochi, Pyeongchang, Beijing. Meyers Taylor won astatine slightest 1 medal astatine each of her archetypal 4 Olympics, but the golden ever eluded her.

No longer.

The 41-year-old American won that long-awaited medal by conscionable 4 hundredths of a 2nd successful women's monobob erstwhile the past competitor, Germany's Laura Nolte, made a tiny but costly mistake connected her last run.

Meyers Taylor's sixth vocation medal extends her grounds arsenic the astir decorated Black jock astatine the Winter Olympics. She's besides the oldest American pistillate to triumph golden astatine the Winter Games.

Meyers Taylor's U.S. teammate Kaillie Armbruster Humphries was third, 0.08 disconnected Nolte's time.

McGrath's infinitesimal unsocial successful the forest

The men's slalom contention had a decorativeness similar nary other.

Norway’s Atle Lie McGrath was starring the contention and skiing past connected the 2nd tally but straddled a gross and was out. He stopped, threw his skis poles implicit a obstruction and past started walking done heavy snowfall to the wood for immoderate clip alone.

“I thought that I would get immoderate bid and quiet, which I didn’t,” said McGrath, who said photographers and constabulary tracked him down.

The melodramatic decorativeness overshadowed Loic Meillard of Switzerland winning gold, and an earlier autumn for elephantine slalom victor and South American past shaper Lucas Pinheiro Braathen.

It's been an particularly pugnacious Olympics for McGrath, whose gramps died connected the time of the opening ceremony. McGrath was racing with an armband arsenic a tribute.

US-Canada again for women's hockey gold

The U.S. and Canada volition play for the golden medal connected Thursday aft the U.S. routed Sweden 5-0 and Canada struggled past Switzerland 2-1 successful Monday's semifinal games.

U.S. goaltender Aerin Frankel preserved a shutout streak which present stands astatine 331 minutes. The U.S. squad is unbeaten and has allowed conscionable 1 extremity each tourney arsenic it seeks a archetypal golden medal since 2018.

Captain Marie-Philip Poulin broke the all-time Olympic scoring grounds with 2 goals successful an unusually constrictive triumph for Canada.

World grounds gives Japan a fig skating win

Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara needed thing peculiar aft placing 5th successful the pairs fig skating abbreviated program. They delivered.

Miura and Kihara produced a satellite grounds people successful the escaped skate to triumph Japan's first-ever pairs gold.

Georgia got its archetypal medal successful immoderate Winter Olympic athletics with Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava successful second. Short-program leaders Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin of Germany dropped to the bronze medal position.

Xandra Velzeboer won her 2nd golden medal of the Olympics successful the women's 1,000-meter abbreviated way speedskating to lucifer her Dutch teammate Jens van ’t Wout with 2 golden medals for the games. Italy's Arianna Fontana was chasing what would person been her 14th vocation Olympic medal but placed fourth.

Austria won the first-ever Olympic golden successful men's ace squad skis jumping. The Austrians were starring erstwhile the contention was chopped abbreviated owed to dense snowfall and wind.

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