But even on the ice in PyeongChang, spectators are as likely to see Olympic medalists with a hint of middle age spread as muscle-bound sweepers. But don’t miss these events later on today.
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As a bonus incentive for its country’s athletes who have yet to enlist, the South Korean government waives compulsory military service for those who place in the top three in their sports at the Olympics or Asian Games, a pancontinental sports event that is held every four years.
Standing in Canada’s way of a sixth-straight Olympic gold-medal appearance are the Olympic Athletes from Russian Federation, who set up a semifinal date with the Canucks after a 6-2 quarter-final win over Switzerland.
That’s little excuse, though, for what has been so far a flop of Olympic proportions. Familiar names from the men’s snowboarding halfpipe will be returning to compete, including Mark McMorris and Max Parrot from Canada.
Sometimes the proportionality of medals won by male and female American athletes is a mitigating factor, as national coverage of the Olympics inevitably highlights home nation athletes doing well. The Nielsen company gave a window into NBC’s thinking: The night’s viewership peaked at 20.7 million when America’s skiing sweethearts, Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin, were on the mountain. Instead, she’s preparing herself for the combined event scheduled for Wednesday.
Team USA will be facing off against the Czech Republic tomorrow in the quarterfinals.
USA men’s hockey player James Wisniewski says his father has contracted norovirus while attending the Winter Games.
From South Korea to America, Twitter is having a rollicking good time praising her highly memeable photos, which prove she did not come to play. Team Canada is only the second women’s team in any sport in Olympic history to win four consecutive gold medals.
Team USA didn’t have a team in the finals. As a child, Bryan battled leukemia.
On Wednesday, the US will skate against the Dutch, while Japan and Canada square off.
The team now sits at 3-4, which puts them in seventh place of the round-robin standings.
Sigourney, 28, came into these Olympics after winning silver in the X Games last month.
South Korea’s male speed skating team made it to the semifinals in the team pursuit event on Sunday. The women are their only bobsled entry this year. In the 2010 games she became the first American woman to win gold in the downhill ski event and also won bronze in the super-G.
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NBC’s primetime PyeongChang broadcast was altered substantially when multiple alpine skiing events and women’s snowboard slopestyle experienced weather postponements, making some nights lean and some nights congested with programming options, which could be a mitigating factor in these preliminary results.
