Winter Olympics 2022 day 13: Canada beat US to win girls’s ice hockey gold, girls’s slalom – dwell! | Sport

Freestyle snowboarding: Again to the slopes and Sammy Kennedy-Sim will get one other good begin in her four-woman quarter-final and leads from the begin to the end to e book her spot within the semis! The veteran of three Winter Video games is trying good. Daniela Maier of Germany is available in second and joins the Australian in progressing.

My colleague Sean Ingle in Beijing will carry you extra on this shortly, however a Beijing official has spoken for the primary time about Taiwan and Xinjiang, saying that there’s solely “one China”.

“The so-called compelled labour in Xinjiang is lies made up by deliberate teams,” Beijing Video games spokesperson Yan Jiarong stated.

Keep tuned for extra.

Alpine snowboarding: The ladies’s mixed podium is just about set – Michelle Gisin and Wendy Holdener, each of Switzerland, and Federica Brignone of Italy occupy the highest three slots, in that order, as the remainder of the course end off their runs.

Freestyle snowboarding: She’s a renown fast-starter and Sammy Kennedy-Sim bursts out of the gates in her girls’s ski-cross 1/8 last. The Australian crosses the road in first to ease into the quarter-finals, however all eyes are on the Italian Lucrezia Fantelli, who has a nasty-looking crash which successfully items progress to each Kennedy-Sim together with the Russian Anastasia Chirtcova. Fingers crossed Fantelli is OK – she stays down for a very long time, receiving consideration. There’s a delay in competitors, however we’re again up and working now with these quarter-final heats.

Time for me to log out and do the short-track relay push to Mike Hytner in Australia.

However I did need to toss in a single e mail I acquired from Barbara Roden in considered one of my favourite locations on the planet, British Columbia: “It’s 10.10 pm right here on the west coast and I’ll wager lots of people are glued to the sport. Nail-biting time. Additionally, I haven’t been to a Vancouver Canucks sport for some time, however ‘Freeze Body’ was once a staple of between performs music at their video games. All these area music individuals should prepare on the identical place.”

I like hockey music. And that was an amazing sport to observe.

So the previous couple of hours have been heart-wrenching (Shiffrin), thrilling (hockey) and breathtaking (halfpipe). Nonetheless a lot extra to return. Get pleasure from.

Credit score to Staff USA for a spirited rally, nevertheless it’s simply too late. The shot rely since Canada’s third aim was 22-5, however only some of these pictures examined Ann-Renee Desbiens, and the nice goalie was as much as the problem on these.

The Individuals will lament their sluggish, muddled begin. Numerous psychological lapses on protection. A way that they weren’t rising to the problem towards their everlasting rivals.

However credit score to Canada. They’re simply that good.

Alpine mixed, slalom: The refs are speaking about that aim, and whereas they’re busy with that, we will see Switzerland’s Gisin and Holdener have taken the highest two spots.

Objective! Canada 3-2 USA 12.5 seconds, third interval (Kessel 59:47)

Simply brute pressure on the 6-on-4. Kessel jams a rebound by way of Desbiens.

Alpine mixed, slalom: Solely 5 of the primary 10 skiers have made it down the course. Now come the 2 skiers with a great probability — Holdener and Gisin.

Canada 3-1 USA 1:25, third interval

The USA by accident performs the puck out of the Canadian zone however regroups.

And it’ll be an influence play — Poulin, of all individuals, for tripping. Harmful hit on Barnes.

6 on 4 …

Canada 3-1 USA, 2:30, third interval

Good effort by the US protection to stop the empty-net aim. Right here comes Knight.

Canada 3-1 USA 3:08, third interval

Whereas the PA performs Elvis Costello’s Pump It Up, the US girls pull the goalie.

Alpine mixed, slalom: By no means thoughts, then — Italy’s Federica Brignone rips by way of the gates with confidence and bests Ledecka’s mixed time by 0.80 seconds.

Nonetheless, a medal from the snowboard wizard could be superb.

Halfpipe: Gus Kenworthy has certified! His rating of 70.75 holds up, and he makes the 12-skier last.

The highest 9 all hail from the USA (4), Canada (three) and New Zealand (two). Then one every from France, Switzerland and Britain.

Alpine mixed, slalom: The USA’s Keely Cashman offers Shiffrin some firm on the DNF record.

Don’t look now, however Ester Ledecka could also be set for a snowboard-ski double much more unlikely than the one she pulled off in 2018.

Canada 3-1 USA 5:45, third interval

Nothing occurred on the ability play.

She stated she had a psychological picture of this taking place, and it did. Third time she has failed to complete a race.

She’s nonetheless the GOAT, with Olympic medals, world championships and too many World Cups to rely. However this hurts.

Canada 3-1 USA 9:21, third interval

Energy play to the USA. Savannah Harmon will get previous Jocelyn Larocque, who reaches out in desperation and will get the hooking name.

Alpine mixed, slalom: It’s underway. Ester Ledecka goes now. Two extra skiers after her, then it’s Mikaela Shiffrin, and I’m shuddering with anxiousness. Upsets are one factor. However a very excellent athlete scuffling with inside demons is a harrowing factor to behold. This isn’t Shiffrin vs. different skiers. That is Shiffrin vs. herself. Solely a hard-hearted particular person would root for the latter.

Canada 3-1 USA 13:50, third interval

The best publish once more will get a little bit of motion, this time being dislodged as Desbien makes a save and onrushing gamers slip previous.

Canada wins a faceoff and will get a little bit of house. Princeton’s Sarah Fillier shoots, however Cavallini is as much as the duty.

Canada 3-1 USA 14:58, third interval

Dink! The sound of puck on publish echoes by way of the sector off an Alex Carpenter shot because the USA applies the stress.

Thirty seconds later, Carpenter slides in between Canadian defenders and takes a go. She’s compelled onto her backhand, although, and Ann-Renee Desbiens makes the save.

The end result right here now not seems like a foregone conclusion.

Halfpipe: New Zealand’s Ben Harrington is ready to stroll off underneath his personal energy after a crash. He could also be extra disenchanted than harm — his first-run rating is thirteenth proper now, so he’ll simply miss the ultimate.

Canada 3-1 USA 19:25, third interval

Underway. The USA wants two objectives in 19 minutes to pressure the normal time beyond regulation between these two rivals.

Halfpipe: In case you didn’t imagine me once I stated a skier ran right into a digital camera operator …

Alpine mixed, slalom: The beginning record is just the present standings, so as. Which means Mikaela Shiffrin is up fifth and can in all probability be within the begin gate inside half-hour from now.

Halfpipe: Two-time world champion Aaron Blunck bumped into hassle on his first run and wanted to place issues collectively on his second. He did. A few double corks, the final a 1260, lands him atop the standings with a 92.00.

New Zealand’s Nico Porteous has additionally damaged 90, shifting forward of David Smart.

On the bubble proper now’s the person we’re all watching — Gus Kenworthy, who posted a 70.75 in his second run after falling in his first.

The USA wanted some kind of spark, and the foundations don’t enable for sending Donald Brashear over the boards to drop the gloves. Hilary Knight is an alternate captain taking part in in her fourth Olympics, and that shorthanded aim may give this staff some confidence.

They’ve outshot Canada 24-17. Within the first sport between the 2, that meant little or no, however that’s one other potential constructing block right here.

That’s a begin. Hannah Brandt and Hilary Knight swipe the puck from the Canadian energy play level gamers and go off to the races. Knight shoots, it’s blocked, and she or he jams residence the rebound for the shorthanded aim.

Canada 3-0 USA 4:27, 2nd interval

The organist is taking part in the J. Geils Band traditional Freeze Body. That’s all.

Oh, and now Canada is getting one other energy play.

Canada 3-0 USA 5:44, 2nd interval

Ann-Renee Desbiens lastly has to make a troublesome save, sprawling to maintain the puck underneath her. An inquisitive US attacker is available in and provides a little bit shove looking for the puck, and a number of Canadian defenders ship an unmistakable message not to try this. No response from the US.

The US staff merely isn’t up for this.

Halfpipe: Only a mesmerizing run from the USA’s David Smart, the two-time defending champion on this freestyle snowboarding occasion. Two double cork 1260s, a 1080 tossed in for good measure, and all of it simply flows somewhat than trying like a sequence of athletic exhibitions. That’s an 88.75. Secure to say he’ll be again within the last.

That’s the tip of the primary run, and Smart is the chief. Then it’s Canadian Brendan Mackay, adopted by Individuals Alex Ferreira and Birk Irving.

Canada 3-0 USA 8:45, 2nd interval

The US pictures are getting extra harmful, and their stress earns an influence play. It’s Jocelyn Larocque with an efficient judo throw, however as a substitute of the ippon, she will get two minutes within the field.

Sarah Nurse outraces the US protection, and has sufficient house to cease and await Brianne Jenner to race by way of the center. Cavallini makes a great save on Jenner and sends the rebound out extensive, however whereas a US defender skids into the goalie, Marie-Philip Poulin hits the empty web from an acute angle.

Canada 2-0 11:34, 2nd interval

Inform me they’re not taking part in Vanilla Ice on the PA.

Can I’m going to mattress now?

Canada 2-0 USA 12:00, 2nd interval

Finest save of the sport from Cavallini, shifting swiftly to her proper on a Canadian 2-on-1.

Canada 2-0 USA 13:30, 2nd interval

If you happen to’re anxious to get to mattress early, you’ll love this era. A number of minutes go by with no stoppage of play.

In the meantime, within the halfpipe, Finland’s Jon Sallinen simply ran right into a cameraman as he went up off a wall.

Canada 2-0 USA 17:30, 2nd interval

A half-chance for Canada on a protracted diagonal go to an unmarked attacker (and unnamed — these numbers aren’t straightforward to learn) sitting on the blue line. She squanders the open look, nevertheless it’s one other wake-up name for the US protection. You already know, simply in case these two objectives weren’t wake-up calls.

Halfpipe (males’s freestyle): Sorry to neglect the qualifying part of this competitors, going down in a dusty snowfall.

The person we’re all watching right here is Gus Kenworthy. Competing for the USA, he took silver within the slopestyle in Sochi eight years in the past. He additionally rescued stray canines whereas he was in Russia. In 2015, he got here out as homosexual. Since then, he has began an appearing profession, with an prolonged run on American Horror Story, a visitor spot in Will & Grace, and an look as “skier” in Sharknado 5: International Swarming.

He’s competing for Staff GB now in halfpipe, the place he’ll want a great second run to qualify after a fall in his first.

American Alex Ferreira and a gaggle of Canadians and New Zealanders are in good condition to qualify.

Alpine mixed: NBC speaks with Shiffrin. She says she’s well-placed after the downhill however isn’t assured. She has a psychological picture of lacking the fifth gate once more.

Can the USOPC arrange some Zoom calls with sports activities psychologists? We’re within the midst of what is perhaps a depressing two hours for underconfident US athletes.

Put a pin on this second …

Canada-USA video games can get chippy. There’s no preventing in worldwide hockey, however there’s the same old argy-bargy at instances, and neither staff backs down.

Late within the first interval, whereas Cavallini was protecting the puck, Canada’s Sarah Fillier gave Hannah Brandt a stable two-handed shove and knocked her to the ice. Fillier than coolly skated within the foot or two of house between the downed US participant and the aim.

There was no response from any US gamers.

They want a Herb Brooks speech at this level.

Canada 2-0 USA 1:40, 1st interval

Extended possession for the USA, however once more, no critical pictures right here. The Individuals haven’t had an actual scoring probability since Brandt hit the surface of the online with the aim at her mercy within the early going.

Canada 2-0 USA 3:48, 1st interval

Canada has an influence play, courtesy of a delay-of-game name when Kendall Coyne Schofield performed the puck over the glass, and it simply seems like this sport can be out of hand if the US penalty kill can’t maintain right here.

Marie-Philip Poulin simply kills the USA in each main match last. She’s performed it once more, swiping the puck from an unsuspecting defender and simply depositing it previous Cavallini, who doesn’t appear to be getting any kind of a have a look at a couple of of those pictures.

Canada 1-0 USA 6:00, 1st interval

Within the group-stage sport, Canada gave up pictures by the bushel, however the protection additionally made these pictures so much much less harmful. The USA simply received one other shot, nevertheless it was from a distance that isn’t going to scare Desbiens.

Don’t blame Canada. Blame Wisconsin. That’s the place Desbiens went to varsity.

Canada 1-0 USA 7:18, 1st interval

And a bit higher for the USA, forcing a scramble in entrance of Desbiens’ aim. However the swarming Canadian protection types a crimson wall, and the hazard is cleared.

Canada 1-0 USA 8:24, 1st interval

Lastly, the USA goes again on the assault. Alex Carpenter will get a shot on a fast push ahead.

Nurse has tied the nice Hayley Wickenheiser for factors in a single Olympic match with 17 — 5 objectives, 12 assists.