U.s. Continues To Add To Its Gold Tally At The Milan-cortina Olympics

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. surpassed nan golden total of its past 5 Winter Olympics early Saturday. The U.S. men’s lucky squad could adhd to that mark.

It’s been 2 beautiful bully Olympic lucky tournaments. And nan U.S. could triumph some of them. On Friday, nan U.S. men hit Slovakia, 6-2, successful nan semifinals and will meet Canada for nan golden connected Sunday. The amended crippled was Canada and Finland. Our once-friendly neighbour to nan northbound fell down 2-0, tied nan crippled pinch 9½ minutes to spell and past won pinch 35 seconds left. We’ll preview that crippled much tomorrow.

And, who tin hide nan U.S. women beating Canada, 2-1, successful overtime successful a gold-medal value game.

The ninth golden for nan U.S. was successful nan men’s freestyle halfpipe Friday when, arsenic we predicted successful yesterday’s newsletter, Alex Ferreira sewage nan golden connected his past run. It completed nan life gold, silver, bronze trifecta for nan 31-year-old from Colorado. The U.S. besides had nan bronze until nan past tally erstwhile Nick Goepper was bumped to fourth.

The only different U.S. badge of nan time was Corinne Stoddard’s bronze successful nan women’s 1,500 meters successful short way velocity skating. South Korea was first and second. The Netherlands won nan men’s 5,000 relay. The U.S. did not make nan finals.

It’s benignant of a ray day, truthful let’s do immoderate random thoughts connected nan TV coverage.

Snoop Dogg attends mixed doubles curling successful Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, connected Feb. 6.

(Fatima Shbair / Associated Press)

• Snoop Dogg was caller and breathtaking successful Paris. The enactment isn’t arsenic caller aliases breathtaking successful Italy. Snoop and buddy Martha Stewart punctual maine of CBS’ Gayle King’s unofficial “I’m Privileged and You’re Not Tour” wherever she goes to awards shows, Broadway plays, Jeff Bezos’ wedding, Bad Bunny successful Puerto Rico and into “space.” Well, Snoop and Martha look almost arsenic privileged, getting into each nan champion places that you aliases I couldn’t. Just saying, for a reported $500,000 a time for Snoop, it wasn’t arsenic bully arsenic Paris. No thought really overmuch Martha is making, but she’s not apt being paid successful plot vegetables.

• I’ve heard nan Captain and Tennille’s “Love Will Keep Us Together” much times nan past 2 weeks than successful each of 1975, erstwhile it was No. 1 for 4 consecutive weeks.

• Do you deliberation an NBC executive made nan incorrect determination to put nan women’s fig skating connected NBC and nan U.S.-Canada women’s lucky crippled connected USA? I do. You could person shown nan game, usage nan clip betwixt periods to trim to nan fig skating and it would look arsenic if you had nan beat of nan Games. And nan lucky crippled was complete earlier nan badge skaters took nan ice.

• Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir connected fig skating get our ballot for champion analysts.

• Kenny Albert (hockey) and Dan Hicks (skiing) person been nan champion play-by-play announcers.

• Did you cognize that astir of nan Games are being called from Connecticut and not Italy? Sports called from stateside are curling, biathlon, cross-country skiing, skis jumping, Nordic combined, speedskating and astir freestyle skiing. And a batch of nan workplace shows were besides from Stamford. (In fairness, this newsletter is being done from Florida. But Thuc Nhi, Sam, Kevin and Robert are successful Italy.)

• The Games person been a ratings occurrence for NBC pinch numbers almost double what they were successful 2022 successful Beijing. The clip quality betwixt nan U.S. and Italy was six hours and it worked to nan use of U.S. viewers.

• Mike Tirico is very bully astatine immoderate he does. Glad to spot they gave him immoderate day time.

• When Hoda Kotb interviewed nan “Blade Angels” connected Friday, I told those astir maine she would show them that she loved them. I was right.

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• The golden badge chances of nan U.S. women’s curling squad died connected nan past changeable successful nan past framework erstwhile Switzerland, holding nan hammer, knocked nan U.S. stone retired of nan location and sewage 2 points to win, 7-4. Switzerland will now play Sweden, a 6-3 victor complete Canada, for nan golden while nan U.S. will play Canada for nan bronze. On nan men’s side, Switzerland won nan bronze by beating Norway, 9-1. Britain plays Canada for nan gold.

• No astonishment that Norway picked up a golden and metallic successful nan biathlon men’s 15-kilometer wide start. Campbell Wright of nan U.S. was 29th.

• Besides nan U.S. golden successful freestyle skiing halfpipe, Germany won nan women’s skis cross. The U.S. did not make nan final. And, China sewage golden and bronze successful nan men’s aerials. Christopher Lillis was nan apical U.S. jock successful eighth.

Favorite photo

U.S. guardant Jack Eichel celebrates aft scoring successful nan 2nd play of a 6-2 triumph complete Slovakia successful nan men’s lucky semifinals Friday astatine nan Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games.

(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.

Saturday’s Olympic TV and streaming schedule

MULTIPLE SPORTS
8 p.m. — “Primetime successful Milan” (delay): Cross-country skiing, bobsled, fig skating, freestyle skiing and more. | NBC

BIATHLON
10:30 a.m. — 🏅Women’s 12.5-kilometer wide commencement (re-air) | USA

BOBSLED
8 a.m. — Four-man bobsled, runs 1-2 | USA
10 a.m. — Two-woman bobsled, Run 3 | NBC
12:05 p.m. — 🏅Two-woman bobsled, last tally | Peacock
12:15 p.m. — 🏅Two-woman bobsled, last tally (in progress) | NBC
2:15 p.m. — Two-woman bobsled, runs 3-4 (delay) | NBC

CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING
8:30 a.m. — 🏅Men’s 50-kilometer wide commencement classical (delay) | NBC

CURLING
🏅Women’s bronze-medal match
5:05 a.m. — U.S. vs. Canada | Peacock
7:20 a.m. — U.S. vs. Canada (delay) | USA
🏅Men’s gold-medal match
10:05 a.m. — Britain vs. Canada | CNBC
Women’s bronze-medal match
1 p.m. — U.S. vs. Canada (re-air) | CNBC

FIGURE SKATING
11 a.m. — Exhibition gala | Peacock
11:55 a.m. — Exhibition gala (in progress) | NBC
12:50 p.m. — Exhibition gala (in progress) | NBC

FREESTYLE SKIING
8:45 a.m. — 🏅Men’s skicross, finals (delay) | USA
9:15 a.m. — Mixed squad aerials, last (re-air) | USA
10:30 a.m. — 🏅Women’s freeski halfpipe, last | NBC
1:30 p.m. — Mixed squad aerials, last (re-air) | NBC

HOCKEY
🏅Men’s bronze-medal game
11:40 a.m. — Finland vs. Slovakia | USA

SPEEDSKATING
6 a.m. — 🏅Men’s and women’s wide start, semifinals and finals | Peacock
7 a.m. — 🏅Men’s and women’s wide start, semifinals and finals (in progress) | NBC

In lawsuit you missed it ...

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

Winter Olympics Day 15 unrecorded updates: Klaebo wins grounds sixth golden medal

U.S. men rout Slovakia, will play Canada for lucky golden medal

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

‘A magical moment.’ Hilary Knight caps disconnected U.S. women’s lucky profession pinch Olympic gold

Olympians Hilary Knight and Brittany Bowe get engaged earlier gold-medal lucky match

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...

That concludes today’s Sports Report Olympic Edition newsletter. If you person immoderate feedback, ideas for betterment aliases things you’d for illustration to see, email newsletter editor Houston Mitchell astatine houston.mitchell@latimes.com. To get this newsletter successful your inbox, click here and prime nan Sports Report.