Overview
- Valérie Maltais, Ivanie Blondin and Isabelle Weidemann beat the Netherlands to retain Canada’s women’s speed skating team pursuit title, marking the first back-to-back Olympic win in the event since 2010.
- Italy’s Davide Ghiotto, Andrea Giovannini and Michele Malfatti overhauled world record-holding Team USA to win the men’s team pursuit in 3:39.20, with the Americans 4.51 seconds back and China taking bronze.
- Heavy snow and poor visibility in Livigno led organizers to postpone the women’s snowboard slopestyle final and both men’s and women’s freestyle aerials qualifiers, with slopestyle moved to Wednesday and aerials shifted to later in the week.
- The women’s figure skating short program opened in Milan, featuring Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto in a farewell Olympic bid and the U.S. trio dubbed the “Blade Angels” — Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu and Isabeau Levito — seeking to end a 20-year American singles medal drought.
- A Forbes cross-country analysis reported that average temperature, population and GDP per capita explain 52.5% of cross-national Winter Olympic medal variation, with colder climates contributing the most to predicted success.