It is red white and gold for a young american in his olympic debut and the ship subs danced onto the ice in pyeongchang i'm
Julie donaldson snowboarding min slopestyle premiered four years ago in sochi with, american
Sage kotsenburg surprising everyone
by claiming gold if team usa were to repeat it would have to be
17-year old red girardi the only american to qualify for this event and youth was served
At the phoenix snow park three runs but only the top score counts i'm jorge second run he opens up just a little bit too
early, and
helium's pretty hard having to shake that one off
Holding his back a little bit there in 11th place after the first two and on his third and final
Try, has to make a count
Girard now one more jump to navigate will it be enough
there he puts it down, the triple cork 1440
Yes he did an incredible run catapults him into first place but the seventeen-year-old
Would have to wait and see if the heavily favored competitors would push him out of first but they
Do not yard becomes the youngest us snowboarder to win an olympic medal and it was gold and he did so with his family and
attendance i
Think, they're insanely happy i haven't got to see any of them yet, and i'm so excited to see him
So i'm trying to get done with all this and go see him because i really am really happy
And he should be gerard is the youngest us snowboarder ever to win a medal and he is the
Second youngest american to win an olympic gold medal billy fiske, was 16 years old in 1928 when the, bobsled, team won gold
Day - a figure skating team event and team usa started in second place the short dance and women's short program would determine which five
teams advance and the americans had both veteran and new competitors taking the ice
Competing in their second two lambics
Maya, and alex she'd mutiny better known?
As the ship sibs skated a short dance for team usa the brother and sister pair from michigan finished second with a score of 75
0.46. Lower than expected but they still feel it was a strong performance i felt like the skate was actually really good we've been training
So hard and to be out on a limp
Guys, for the first time, we were really happy with it yeah a little surprised
By the score to be honest because we've been, scoring much higher
But the performance felt great, we felt really good about what, we did out there and it was just so great to be out there
In the women's short program single short program reigning us champion birdie tinnell
Was selected to compete making her olympic debut tinnell skated
Well posting a score of 68 point 9 for perched in first place after six performances
But the night it belonged to russian at
Yevgenia, medvedeva the 18-year old nearly unbeatable on the ice over the past three, years the two-time world champion showed
Why she deserves the accolades scoring 80
1.06
The american duo of alexa and chris kinnear competed in pairs free skate
That has been a wife team finished fourth taking a look at the overall standings only five teams remain, the u.s.
Is currently in third behind canada and oay are one more day of competition will determine which teams sit atop the podium
To the alpen see a cross-country center for minsky athlon a master 30 kilometer race
Where you switch skis and technique halfway through and after a grueling 76 minutes it was a norwegian
Celebration with first time olympian at simon hagstead kruger claiming gold and shortly thereafter
Welcoming his countrymen to fill out the podium as norway sweeps the event
An important note the final in men's downhill alpine and qualifying for women's slopestyle snowboarding were postponed due to weather
Conditions. Be sure to check out mbc olympics comm for all the latest news and to stream any event live i'm julie donaldson
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