Alysa Liu Highlights A Day Of Remarkable Comebacks

Welcome to your regular reappraisal and preview of this year’s Milan-Cortina Olympics. My sanction is John Cherwa and I’m your circuit head for nan Games arsenic nan U.S. is finishing beardown pinch golds successful lucky and fig skating. Plus, our medals preview.

Maybe it’s each nan intermezo options we person connected television. But 1 point you tin opportunity is nan U.S. knows really to create play … and excitement. Thursday was a singular time of comebacks. The U.S. winning nan golden successful a come-from-behind overtime triumph complete Canada successful women’s hockey. And then, nan U.S. winning it first women’s fig skating golden since Sarah Hughes successful 2002 erstwhile Alysa Liu completed her comeback aft retiring successful 2022.

If location was 1 fastener prediction I would person made earlier nan commencement of nan Olympics was that nan U.S. women’s lucky squad would triumph gold. Canada went connected apical successful nan first period, 1-0, and it stayed that measurement until astir 2 minutes near successful regulation. Then squad skipper and recently engaged (to speedskater Brittany Bowe) Hilary Knight tied nan people connected a deflection. Not judge why, but overtime is 3X3 skaters, which is beautiful darn exciting.

Four minutes into overtime Megan Keller put it past nan Canadian goaltender and nan U.S. had nan gold. No uncertainty astir it. It was a gold-medal Olympic-caliber game.

The last time of fig skating was filled pinch play arsenic good arsenic Amber Glenn, who was 13th aft nan short program, nailed her free skate and stood atop nan standings until nan last fewer skaters. She vanished fifth. Liu skated 2nd from past and deed a spectacular capacity to nan euphony of “MacArthur Park” sung by Donna Summer.

Then nan Japanese skaters, who were starring aft nan short program, made insignificant mistakes successful their programme and it was near to nan judges. Liu added a golden to her squad golden she won earlier successful nan Games.

Jordan Stolz of nan U.S. competes to return a metallic badge successful nan men’s 1,500 meters.

(Ben Curtis / Associated Press)

Speaking of awesome performances, Jordan Stolz, nan now three-medal U.S. speedskating phenom, was victimized by a awesome capacity by China’s Zhongyan Ning, who won nan golden successful nan 1,500. Stolz sewage nan metallic to spell pinch his 2 golds. He will skate adjacent successful nan men’s wide commencement Saturday.

With only 3 title days left, let’s look astatine really nan full medals title is going. Norway looks arsenic if it can’t beryllium caught pinch 34. Italy has 26 pinch nan U.S. astatine 25 and France, for illustration a canine chasing a car, pinch 19. There are 21 sets of medals to beryllium awarded.

For intermezo purposes only, we’ll effort and prime nan badge stand, by country, going forward:

Biathlon: Men’s wide start-Norway, France, Sweden; Women’s wide start-France, Norway, Italy.

Bobsled: Two-woman-Germany, Germany, U.S.; Four-man-Germany, Italy, Germany.

Cross-country: Men’s 50km wide start-Norway, Sweden, Norway; Women’s 50km wide start-Sweden, Norway, Sweden.

Curling: Men-Switzerland, Canada, Norway; Women-Sweden, U.S., Norway.

Freestyle skiing: Men’s aerials-China, Switzerland, China; Women’s skis cross-Sweden, Switzerland, Canada; Men’s freestyle halfpipe-U.S. (Alex Ferreira), New Zealand, U.S. (Nick Goepper); Mixed squad aerials-U.S., China, Australia; Men’s skis cross-Canada, Italy, France; Women’s freestyle halfpipe-China, Britain, China.

Ice hockey: Men-U.S., Canada, Finland.

Short way speedskating: Women’s 1,500-South Korea, Netherlands, Canada; Men’s 5,000 relay-Canada, Italy, South Korea.

Ski mountaineering (skimo): Mixed relay-France, Spain, Switzerland.

Speedskating: Women’s 1,500-Japan, Netherlands, Italy; Women’s wide start-Netherlands, U.S., Canada; Women’s wide start-U.S. (Jordan Stolz), Italy, Netherlands.

Let’s full that up: Norway would person 41 medals, nan U.S. pinch 33, Italy pinch 32 and France astatine 23.

Elsewhere connected Thursday

Switzerland’s Marianne Fatton competes during nan skis mountaineering women’s sprint event.

(John Locher / Associated Press)

—The U.S. women curlers vanished excavation play pinch a 7-6 triumph complete Switzerland, nan aforesaid squad they will play successful nan semifinals. Sweden and Canada will play successful nan different semi.

—It was nan first time for nan caller athletics of skis mountaineering, nicknamed skimo, wherever they transverse state skis uphill, locomotion up stairs, and skis downhill. In short, it’s a Winter Olympic type of miniature play arsenic acold arsenic creating obstacles. You person to skis astir diamond-shaped areas successful nan mediate of nan course, return disconnected your skis, put them backmost on, set your skis to return nan clash strips disconnected and do a mini jump. I afloat expected astatine nan extremity of nan people that they would skis done a clown’s mouth. With each that said, nosy to watch. The first golden victor successful nan women’s sprint was from Switzerland and nan men’s sprint victor was from Spain. The U.S. did not make either final.

—The Nordic mixed ended its Olympic tally Thursday pinch nan mixed squad sprint. Norway took nan gold. The U.S. was seventh.

Best Thing to Watch connected TV today

Nick Goepper, competing present during nan 2022 Games, has a bully chance astatine a badge today.

(Lee Jin-man / Associated Press)

On Friday, location are only 7 golds to beryllium awarded, 10 connected Saturday and 4 connected Sunday. So, we’re reasoning your champion viewing coming will travel successful nan freestyle men’s aerials. The U.S. has a changeable for a badge aliases possibly medals successful this event, postponed from Thursday. There is Nick Goepper and Alex Ferreira, who some person a changeable successful this event. The first qualifying tally is astatine 1:30 a.m. PST, nan 2nd astatine 2:15 a.m. and nan last astatine 10:30 a.m. PST. Now, location is besides nan women’s curling semifinal betwixt nan U.S. and Switzerland astatine 5:05 a.m. PST.

Favorite photo

Team USA celebrates aft winning golden successful hockey.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Times photographer Robert Gauthier is astatine nan Winter Olympics. Each day, Times newsletter editor Houston Mitchell will prime a favourite photograph from nan galore Gauthier has taken.

Friday’s afloat Olympic TV and streaming schedule

Friday’s unrecorded TV and streaming broadcasts for nan Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics unless noted (subject to change). All events watercourse unrecorded connected Peacock aliases NBCOlympics.com pinch a streaming aliases cablegram login. All times Pacific. 🏅 — badge arena for unrecorded broadcasts.

MULTIPLE SPORTS
8 p.m. — “Primetime successful Milan” (delay): Bobsled, speedskating, curling, lucky and more. | NBC

BIATHLON
5:15 a.m. — 🏅Men’s 15-kilometer wide commencement | USA
9:15 a.m. — 🏅Men’s 15-kilometer wide commencement (re-air) | NBC

BOBSLED
9 a.m. — Two-woman bobsled, Run 1 | NBC, Peacock
10:50 a.m. — Two-woman bobsled, Run 2 | Peacock
1:15 p.m. — Two-woman bobsled, runs 1-2 | USA

CURLING
Women semifinals
5:05 a.m. — Canada vs. Sweden | Peacock
5:05 a.m. — United States vs. Switzerland | Peacock
6 a.m. — United States vs. Switzerland (in progress) | USA
🏅Men’s bronze badge match
10:05 a.m. — Teams TBD | Peacock

FREESTYLE SKIING
1 a.m. — Women’s skicross, qualifying | USA
1:30 a.m. — Men’s aerials, qualifying | USA
1:30 a.m. — Men’s freeski halfpipe, qualifying | Peacock
3 a.m. — 🏅Women’s skicross, finals | USA
4:30 a.m. — 🏅Men’s aerials, finals | USA
10 a.m. — Women’s skicross, finals (re-air) | USA
10:30 a.m. — 🏅Men’s freeski halfpipe, finals | NBC

HOCKEY
Men’s semifinals
7:40 a.m. — Canada vs. Finland | Peacock
8:50 a.m. — Canada vs. Finland (in progress) | USA
12:10 p.m. — U.S. vs. Slovakia | NBC

SHORT TRACK SPEEDSKATING
11:15 a.m. — 🏅Women’s 1,500 meters; men’s 5,000-meter relay finals | USA

SPEEDSKATING
7:30 a.m. — 🏅Women’s 1,500 meters | USA

In lawsuit you missed it ...

Check retired nan pursuing Milan-Cortina Olympics dispatches from nan L.A. Times squad connected nan crushed successful Italy:

After shedding anxiety, American Alysa Liu rides activity of joyousness to Olympic golden medal

Hilary Knight’s heroics, Megan Keller’s OT extremity nett U.S. women Olympic lucky golden complete Canada

Jordan Stolz takes metallic successful Olympic 1,500 meters; China’s Ning Zhongyan wins gold

U.S. bobsledder Azaria Hill adding to her family’s rich | Olympic Games legacy

Until adjacent time...

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