• USA Alpine Skiing Men’s Slalom
• USA Biathlon Men’s Relay
• USA Cross-Country Skiing Women’s 30K
• USA Speed Skating Men’s Team Pursuit
• USA Speed Skating Women’s Team Pursuit

There are also 2 new events ending on Saturday – snowboarding parallel special slalom for both men and women.

 

With the Games winding down, the final full day of multiple events and medal events is Saturday, 22 February. There are only 3 finals on Sunday (23 Feb) – men’s ice hockey, 4-man bobsledding, and 50 km cross-country skiing. Here are the event sheets for the events ending on Saturday:

• Alpine Skiing Men’s Slalom
• Biathlon Men’s Relay
• Cross-Country Skiing Women’s 30K
• Speed Skating Men’s Team Pursuit
• Speed Skating Women’s Team Pursuit

There are also two new events – snowboarding parallel special slalom for men and women.

The United States and Canada play today in a men’s ice hockey semi-final. This will be the 18^th Olympic match between the two arch-rivals, with Canada holding a comfortable edge in the rivalry – winning 11, tieing 3, and losing 3. The results of all the matches are as follows:

 

United States vs. Canada

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Year,Match,Result,Score,Date

1920,Semi-Final,CAN d. USA,2-0,Apr 25

1924,Final Pool,CAN d. USA,6-1,Feb 3

1932,Round-Robin,CAN d. USA,2-1,Feb 4

1932,Round-Robin,CAN tied USA,2-2,Feb 13

1936,Final Pool,CAN d. USA,1-0,Feb 16

1948,Round-Robin,CAN d. USA,12-3,Feb 5

1952,Round-Robin,CAN tied USA,3-3,Feb 24

1956,Final Pool,USA d. CAN,4-1,Jan 31

1960,Final Pool,USA d. CAN,2-1,Feb 25

1964,Final Pool,CAN d. USA,8-6,Feb 3

1968,A Pool,CAN d. USA,3-2,Feb 11

1984,B Pool,CAN d. USA,4-2,Feb 7

1994,B Pool,CAN tied USA,3-3,Feb 17

1998,D Pool,CAN d. USA,4-1,Feb 16

2002,Gold Medal,CAN d. USA,5-2,Feb 24

2010,Gold Medal,CAN d. USA,3-2,Feb 28

2010,A Pool,USA d. CAN,5-3,Feb 21

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• USA Alpine Skiing Women’s Slalom
• USA Biathlon Women’s Relay
• USA Freestyle Skiing Women’s Skiier-Cross
• USA Short-Track Speed Skating Men’s 500 metres
• USA Short-Track Speed Skating Men’s Relay
• USA Short-Track Speed Skating Women’s 1,000 metres

8 sets of medals decided today. Russia extended their lead over Norway to 22 points. Germany moved up to 4th place with Switzerland entering the top ten.
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.
No 8th place in women’s short track relay as the Dutch were disqualified from the event.

[table]
Rank, Nation,Points,Tie breaker
1, RUS, 265,
2, NOR, 243,
3, USA, 236,
4, GER, 206,
5, CAN, 200,
6, NED, 198,
7, AUT, 126,
8, SUI, 120,
9, FRA, 118,
10, ITA, 111,
11, CHN, 108,
12, SWE, 106,
13, JPN, 96,
14, CZE, 89,
15, SLO, 84,
16, FIN, 55,
17, POL, 53,
18, BLR, 47,
19, KOR, 45,
20, AUS, 37,
21, LAT, 28,
22, GBR, 27,
23, KAZ, 20,
24, SVK, 18, 1st
25, UKR, 18, 3rd
26, BEL, 12,
27, NZL, 10,
28, CRO, 7, 2nd
29, ESP, 7, 4th
30, HUN, 5,
31, BUL, 4,
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• Alpine Skiing Women’s Slalom
• Biathlon Women’s Relay
• Men’s Curling
• Freestyle Skiing Women’s Skiier-Cross
• Short-Track Speed Skating Men’s 500 metres
• Short-Track Speed Skating Men’s Relay
• Short-Track Speed Skating Women 1,000 metres

Canada and the United States play in the final match of women’s ice hockey, the winner to get the gold medal. This is a re-play of the 1998, 2002, and 2010 Winter Olympic finals. The USA and Canada have played 5 previous times at the Winter Olympics – twice in 1998, including the final, the 2002 and 2010 finals, and an A-pool match earlier in Sochi. The United States won the first two games, including the 1998 gold medal. Since then Canada has won the gold medal in 2002, 2006, and 2010, and defeated the United States in the last 3 matches between them, including their earlier match in Sochi.

Attached are the game summaries of all the previous CAN v USA matches at the Winter Olympics.

• USA vs Canada Women’s Ice Hockey

Ted Ligety has almost certainly won the men’s Alpine skiing giant slalom today in Sochi, giving him the following Olympic bests and records:

 

• With his second Olympic gold medal, Ligety becomes only the 2^nd American with 2 Alpine skiing gold medals, and the first male, after Andi Mead-Lawrence, who won her 2 gold medals in slalom and giant slalom in 1952.
• He becomes the 5^th American male with 2 or more Alpine skiing medals – Bode Miller (6), Phil Mahre (2), Tommy Moe (2), Andrew Weibrecht (2). There are 8 American women with 2+ Alpine skiing medals, led by Julia Mancuso with 4, making Ligety the 13^th American to win 2 or more medals in Olympic Alpine skiing.
• Ligety becomes the 7^th American to win Alpine skiing medals at 2 or more Olympics. This list is led by Bode Miller and Julia Mancuso with 3, with Dianne Roffe, Picabo Street, Phil Mahre, and Andrew Weibrecht the 4 Americans to win Olympic Alpine medals at 2 Winter Olympics.

So how is the United States doing in Alpine skiing at Sochi? Not quite as badly as originally described a few days ago, now helped by medals in the men’s Super G and giant slalom. Here is how the US performance in 2014 ranks compared to our previous medal rankings in Olympic Alpine skiing.

 

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Year,NOC,RankUS,RankEU,G,S,B,TM

2010,United States,1,2,2,3,3,8

1984,United States,1,1,3,2,-,5

1964,United States,3,3,-,2,2,4

1994,United States,3,2,2,2,-,4

2014,United States,,,1,1,2,4

1960,United States,4,6,-,3,-,3

1948,United States,4,4,1,1,-,2

1952,United States,4,2,2,-,-,2

1972,United States,4,3,1,-,1,2

1992,United States,=5,=7,-,2,-,2

2002,United States,6,6,-,2,-,2

2006,United States,5,2,2,-,-,2

1976,United States,=7,=7,-,-,1,1

1980,United States,6,5,-,1,-,1

1998,United States,7,6,1,-,-,1

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After the men’s giant slalom, here is the 2014 Olympic Alpine skiing medal list (assuming no changes after top 30 starters):

 

[table]

2014 – NOCs,G,S,B,TM

Austria,2,2,1,5

United States,1,1,2,4

Switzerland,2,0,1,3

Germany,1,1,1,3

Slovenia,2,0,0,2

Norway,1,0,1,2

France,0,1,1,2

Italy,0,1,1,2

Croatia,0,1,0,1

Canada,0,0,1,1

Totals,9,7,9,25

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• USA Women’s Curling
• USA Women’s Ice Hockey
• USA Freestyle Skiing Men’s Skiier-Cross
• USA Figure Skating Women’s Individual
• USA Nordic Combined Men’s Team

Freestyle skiing women’s halfpipe will also end on Thursday, but this is new event to the Olympic Program.

• Women’s Curling
• Women’s Ice Hockey
• Figure Skating Women’s Singles
• Freestyle Skiing Men’s Skiier-Cross
• Nordic Combined Men’s Team

Women’s freestyle skiing halfpipe will also finish on Thursday. This is a new Olympic event.