American favorites Lindsey Vonn and Red Gerrard were back on the slopes again today in Pyeongchang. Here's what you might have missed from Olympic action on Feb. 20.
Lindsey Vonn takes bronze in downhill
Lindsey Vonn went all out in her much-anticipated Olympic downhill race and won bronze behind Italy's Sofia Goggia and Norway's Ragnhild Mowinckel on Wednesday.
Her win made her the oldest woman to medal in the event at age 33.
Vonn finished in 1:39.69, .47 seconds behind Goggia, who is skiing in her first Olympics and was 11th in both the Super G and giant slalom.
The downhill was considered Vonn’s best and last chance to win a gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics. She finished sixth in the Super-G Saturday and is not expected to medal Thursday in the combined, her last individual event of the Games.
Men’s freestyle skiing - ski cross
Canada's Brady won gold during a nightlong men's ski cross event. Marc Bischofberger of Switzerland and Sergey Ridzik of the Olympic Athletes of Russian won silver and bronze respectively.
There were no Americans competing in the event.
Women's figure skating - short program
Hopes for another figure skating medal for Team USA were dashed early during the short program after top contenders Bradie Tennell and Mirai Nagasu fell moments into their routines. And 18-year-old Karen Chen needed to put her hand on the ice to keep from falling.
Nagasu earned a score of 66.93 for ninth place, Tennell scored 64.01 for 11th place and Chen scored 65.90 for 10th place. Fittingly, the three Americans are grouped together.
All eyes were on the Russian who led the day. 15-year-old Alina Zagitova beat 18-year-old Evegenia Medvedeva in what everyone knew was going to be a close call between the two.
The long program is Friday.
Men’s hockey
In an exciting game that went into overtime, the Czech Republic defeated the U.S. men’s hockey team in a penalty shot shootout, scoring twice to USA’s zero.
This unfortunately ends USA’s run in men’s hockey at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics. The Czechs will face the winner of the Olympic Athletes from Russia vs. Norway on Friday.
The gold medal game is on Sunday.
American men qualify in snowboard big air
American snowboard gold medalist Red Gerard hit the slopes again in the first round of snowboard big air. Gerard and teammates Kyle Mack and Chris Corning moved on to the finals.
Mack finished in third place, Corning finished in fourth and Gerard just squeaked into the finals in sixth place.
