The buzzer has finally put Switzerland out of their misery in the women’s ice hockey. They’ve gone down 8-0 to the US in the final sporting action of day two in Beijing. The US only had the mere 66 shots on goal during the match.
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Today at the Winter Olympics
- Zoe Sadowski-Synnott became the first ever New Zealand athlete to win a Winter Olympic gold with victory in the women’s snowboard slopestyle.
- Jakara Anthony became Australia’s first Winter Olympics gold medallist since 2010, winning the freestyle skiing women’s moguls.
- Nils van der Poel of Sweden won the 5,000m men’s speed skating, smashing the Olympic record that had earlier been broken by Patrick Roest of the Netherlands who had to be content with a silver medal.
- Johannes Ludwig of Germany won the men’s singles luge, while Ryoyu Kobayashi of Japan won the men’s normal hill ski jumping.
- Cross-country skier Alexander Bolshunov secured gold in the men’s 30km skiathlon for the athletes of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), and later hit out at reporters “hinting at doping” by querying his dominant performance.
- The British curling mixed doubles pair of Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat are guaranteed a semi-final spot despite defeat to Norway, who also progress.
- The Australian curling mixed doubles pair packed their backs this morning after a positive Covid test, then were reprieved and allowed to compete, then secured back-to-back victories including over Canada.
- ROC lead the figure skating mixed team event going into the final day. Their fifteen-year-old competitor Kamila Yulieva blew the competition away, scoring the highest marks ever recorded in the women’s short program.
- Japan will progress to the women’s ice hockey quarter-finals with the point secured during their shootout defeat to China in Group B.
- The men’s downhill Alpine skiing was postponed due to adverse weather conditions. They will try again tomorrow.
