• Alpine Skiing – Women’s Combined Event Factsheets

USA Factsheets for events ending tomorrow, Monday, 10 February

• USA Alpine Skiing – Women’s Combined Event Factsheets
• USA Biathlon – Men’s Pursuit Event Factsheets
• USA Freestyle Skiing – Men’s Moguls Event Factsheets
• USA Speed Skating – Men’s 500 metres Event Factsheets
• USA Short-Track Speed Skating – Men’s 1500 m Event Factsheets

Yesterday at the Olympics

• American Sage Kotsenburg won the first gold medal of the Sochi Olympics, winning the men’s snowboarding slopestyle event. This made Kotsenburg the fourth American to win the first gold medal at a Winter Olympics. Charlie Jewtraw won the first Winter Olympic event ever held, the speed skating 500 metres at Chamonix in 1924. In 1932, Jack Shea won the same event to open the Lake Placid Olympics, winning that race shortly after taking the Oath of the Athletes at the Opening Ceremony. And in 1952 Andi Mead-Lawrence won the women’s giant slalom in Alpine skiing, the first gold medal won at the Oslo Winter Olympics.
• Hannah Kearney won a bronze medal in women’s freestyle moguls, her second Olympic medal in the event, having won a gold medal in 2010. Kearney’s two Olympic medals in freestyle skiing ties her with Shannon Bahrke for the most medals won by an American in freestyle skiing.
• Kearney trailed Canadians Justine and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe, who became the 6^th siblings to finish 1-2 in an individual event at the Winter Olympics. See https://olympstats.com/2014/02/08/siblings-going-1-2-in-winter-olympic-individual-events/ for more details.
• Jessica Diggins placed 8^th in the women’s cross-country skiathlon, equalling the best ever finish by an American woman in Olympic cross-country skiing individual event. Kikkan Randall also finished 8^th in the sprint at Vancouver.
• Tim Burke placed 19^th in the men’s biathlon 10 km, the second best finish ever by an American in that event, after Jeremy Teela placed 9^th in 2010.
• Ole Einar Bjørndalen won the men’s biathlon 10 km event, giving him 12 Olympic medals and 7 gold medals. This ties Bjorndalen with Norwegian Bjørn Dæhlie who won 12 medals in cross-country skiing. It also moves Bjørndalen to #2 all-time in gold medals won, trailing only Dæhlie’s 8. Bjørndalen also became the oldest Winter Olympic gold medalist in an individual event, at age 40 years, 12 days.

Today at the Olympics

• Medals today for the USA – look for Bode Miller in men’s Alpine downhill, who has been at the top of his recent form in the past few weeks. The USA figure skating team is in 3^rd in the team trophy competition, and has a good shot to win a bronze medal, with silver a long shot, and gold seemingly out of the question. Those are probably two best shots at a medal for Sunday.

This Day at the Olympics

320 Olympians were born

75 Olympians died

69 Olympic events were held

USA Births and Death on this Day at the Olympics

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Date,Name,Sport,Years

9 Feb 1868,Joseph Charles,TEN,1904

9 Feb 1872,Charles Klauder,ART,1928-32

9 Feb 1888,Alexander Kruse,ART,1932

9 Feb 1894,Moose Goheen,ICH,1920

9 Feb 1908,Jackie Fields,BOX,1924

9 Feb 1927,Ruth Topalian,GYM,1952

9 Feb 1936,Robert Bartholomew,WLT,1968

9 Feb 1943,Jim King,BAS,1968

9 Feb 1947,Francie Kraker,ATH,1968-72

9 Feb 1949,Lyle Nelson,BIA,1976-88

9 Feb 1950,Butch Keaser,WRE,1976

9 Feb 1950,Greg Losey,MOP,1984

9 Feb 1956,Phil Ford,BAS,1976

9 Feb 1959,Greg Morava,HAN,1984

9 Feb 1964,Antonio McKay,ATH,1984-88

9 Feb 1966,Arlene Limas,TKW,1988

9 Feb 1967,Chris Kappler,EQU,2004

9 Feb 1967,Venus Lacey,BAS,1996

9 Feb 1979,Brenda Taylor,ATH,2004

9 Feb 1980,Lauren McFall,SYN,2004

9 Feb 1987,Henry Cejudo,WRE,2008

9 Feb 1988,Chelsea Hayes,ATH,2012

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Date,Name,Sport,Years

9 Feb 1904,Mary Abbott,GOL,1900

9 Feb 1968,Ed Moore,ROW,1920

9 Feb 1969,John Schereschewsky,AFB,1932

9 Feb 1975,Ed Jennings,ROW,1924-32

9 Feb 1991,Henry Oehler,HAN,1936

9 Feb 1992,Joseph Shimmon,WRE,1920

9 Feb 1995,Muriel Guggolz,FEN,1932

9 Feb 1997,Edward Bennett,ROW,1936

9 Feb 1997,Taylor Drysdale,SWI,1936

9 Feb 2000,Lenore Kight-Wingard,SWI,1932-36

9 Feb 2012,Bob Baker,ICH,1948

9 Feb 2012,Peggy Crowe,SSK,1976

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Previous USA Winter Olympic Medals on This Day

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Medalist,Sport,X,Event,Medal,Date

USA Team,BOB,M,Two,Gold,9 Feb 1932

USA Team,BOB,M,Two,Bronze,9 Feb 1932

Jenny Fish,SSK,F,500 m,Silver,9 Feb 1968

Dianne Holum,SSK,F,500 m,Silver,9 Feb 1968

Mary Meyers,SSK,F,500 m,Silver,9 Feb 1968

Dianne Holum,SSK,F,1500 m,Gold,9 Feb 1972

USA Team,FSK,X,Dance,Bronze,9 Feb 1976

Shannon Bahrke,FRS,F,Moguls,Silver,9 Feb 2002

Derek Parra,SSK,M,5K,Silver,9 Feb 2002

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Events Finishing Today

• Alpine Skiing – Men’s Downhill
• Biathlon – Women’s 7.5 km
• Cross-Country Skiing – Men’s Skiathlon
• Figure Skating – Mixed Team Trophy
• Luge – Men’s Singles
• Ski Jumping – Men’s Normal Hill Individual
• Snowboarding – Women’s Slopestyle
• Speed Skating – Women’s 3,000 metres

Medal Standings after Day #2

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Day #2 – 8 Feb 2014,Gold,Silver,Bronze,Total,Rank (US)

Norway,2,1,1,4,1

Canada,1,1,1,3,=2

The Netherlands,1,1,1,3,=2

United States,1,-,1,2,4

Austria,-,1,-,1,=5

Sweden,-,1,-,1,=5

Czechoslovakia,-,-,1,1,7

Totals (5 events),5,5,5,15

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Day #2 – 13 Feb 2010,Gold,Silver,Bronze,Total,Rank (US)

United States,1,1,2,4,1

Republic of Korea,1,1,-,2,2

The Netherlands,1,-,-,1,=3

Switzerland,1,-,-,1,=3

Slovakia,1,-,-,1,=3

Canada,-,1,-,1,=6

Germany,-,1,-,1,=6

Poland,-,1,-,1,=6

Austria,-,-,1,1,=9

France,-,-,1,1,=9

Russian Federation,-,-,1,1,=9

Totals (5 events),5,5,5,15

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Day #2 – 11 Feb 2006,Gold,Silver,Bronze,Total,Rank (US)

Norway,-,2,2,4,1

Germany,2,-,-,2,2

Canada,1,-,-,1,=3

United States,1,-,-,1,=3

Austria,-,1,-,1,=5

The Netherlands,-,1,-,1,=5

France,-,-,1,1,=7

Italy,-,-,1,1,=7

Totals (4 events),4,4,4,12

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Day #2 – 9 Feb 2002,Gold,Silver,Bronze,Total,Rank (US)

Austria,1,1,-,2,1

Norway,1,-,1,2,2

United States,-,2,-,2,3

Italy,1,-,-,1,=4

The Netherlands,1,-,-,1,=4

Czech Republic,-,1,-,1,6

Germany,-,-,1,1,=7

Japan,-,-,1,1,=7

Russian Federation,-,-,1,1,=7

Totals (4 events),4,4,4,12

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Day #2 – 8 Feb 1998,Gold,Silver,Bronze,Total,Rank (US)

The Netherlands,1,1,-,2,=1

Russian Federation,1,1,-,2,=1

Canada,1,-,-,1,3

Italy,-,1,-,1,4

Belgium,-,-,1,1,=5

Norway,-,-,1,1,=5

Switzerland,-,-,1,1,=5

Totals (3 events),3,3,3,9

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If you go back into the mists of history you’ll find that newspaper regularly published points tables for the Olympic Games instead of the now familiar medal tables. So, using the formula that a few sporting bodies like the IAAF still occasionally use, here’s the Winter Olympic points table after day 1.

The scoring table is as follows;
1st 8 points
2nd 7
3rd 6
4th 5
5th 4
6th 3
7th 2
8th 1
If countries are level on points their single best result is the tiebreak.
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Rank, Nation,Points,Tie breaker
1, NOR, 38,,
2, CAN, 29,,
3, NED, 21,,
4, USA, 18,,
5, SWE, 12,,
6, AUT, 9,,
7, CZE, 7,,
8, FIN, 8,,
9, JPN, 6, 4th,
9, RUS, 6, 4th,
11, BEL, 5,,
12, AUS, 4,,
13, FRA, 3, 6th,
13, GBR, 3, 6th,
13, POL, 3, 6th,
16, KAZ, 2,,
18, GER, 1,,

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The Canadian Dufour-Lapointe sisters  just went 1-2 in the women’s moguls – Justine winning gold, with Chloe second for silver. Maxime missed out in the second round of the finals. Gold and silver by siblings in an individual event – ever happened before at the Olympics?

This has happened previously several times at the Olympics, includng 6 times at the Winter Olympics, by 5 sets of siblings. Here is the list of times it has occurred:

Brothers

John / Sumner Paine – pistol shooting 1896
Platt / Ben Adams – athletics standing high jump 1912
Nedo / Aldo Nadi – fencing sabre 1920
Jennison / Jack Heaton – skeleton 1928
Edoardo / Dario Mangiarotti – fencing épée 1952
Raimondo / Piero D’Inzeo – equestrian jumping 1960
Phil / Steve Mahre – Alpine skiing slalom 1984
Philipp / Simon Schoch – snowboard PGS 2006

Sisters
Christine / Marielle Goitschel – slalom / giant slalom 1964 (x2)
Doris / Angelika Neuner – luge 1992

There have been several other examples of two siblings on an individual podium, notably the Brownlee brothers, Alistair (gold) and Jonathan (bronze), in the men’s triathlon at London in 2012.

• USA Alpine Skiing – Men’s Downhill
• USA Biathlon – Women’s 7.5 km
• USA Cross-Country Skiing – Men’s Skiathlon
• USA Luge Men’s Singles
• USA Ski Jumping Men’s Normal Hill
• USA Speed Skating Women’s 3K

Figure Skating Mixed Team Trophy and Women’s Snowboarding Slopestyle will also finish tomorrow, Sunday, 9 February. However, these are 2 of the 12 new events and have no background historical or statistical data from the Winter Olympics.

By winning the women’s skiathlon this AM, Marit Bjørgen wins her 4th cross-country skiing gold medal. This moves her into a tie for 6th among all female Winter Olympians with most gold medals won. She still trails:

• Lidiya Skoblikova (URS) – 6 in SSK
• Lyubov Yegorova (EUN/URS) – 6 in CCS
• Claudia Pechstein (GER) – 5 in SSK
• Larisa Lazutina (EUN/RUS) – 5 in CCS
• Bonnie Blair (USA) – 5 in SSK

Sage Kotsenburg won the 1st gold medal of the Sochi Olympics by winning the men’s snowboarding slopestyle event.

He becomes only the 4th USA Olympian to win the first gold medal at a Winter Olympics – here are the others:

• Charlie Jewtraw – 1924 – men’s speed skating 500 metres
• Jack Shea – 1932 – men’s speed skating 500 metres
• Andi Mead-Lawrence – 1952 – women’s alpine giant slalom

Jewtraw’s gold medal was the first gold medal ever awarded at the Winter Olympics.

Three other USA Winter Olympians won a gold medal on the first day of medal competition but they were beaten out by earlier gold medalists. These are as follows:

• Tommy Moe – 1994 – men’s alpine downhill
• Chad Hedrick – 2006 – men’s speed skating 5K
• Hannah Kearney – 2010 – women’s freestyle skiing moguls