Overview
- Team USA moved into double-digit medals, boosted by Elizabeth Lemley’s moguls gold with Jaelin Kauf in silver, Ryan Cochran-Siegle’s super-G silver and Jessie Diggins’ 10-kilometer cross-country bronze.
- Jordan Stolz won the men’s 1,000 meters in 1:06.28 to set an Olympic record and secure the United States’ fourth gold of the Games.
- France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron captured ice dance gold, with Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates earning silver and Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier taking bronze.
- NHL players returned as men’s hockey began, with Slovakia upsetting reigning champion Finland 4-1; the United States opens against Latvia and Sweden will make a late call on William Nylander as his groin issue is managed.
- The IOC excluded Ukraine’s Vladyslav Heraskevych for refusing to change a memorial helmet deemed a political statement, and organizers said a targeted fix is in place after reports of a small number of medals snapping.