Swiss skier Franjo von Allmen won the first gold medal of the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics over the weekend, and he added another on Monday.
It is turning into quite the Olympic debut for Von Allmen, who partnered with Tanguy Nef to win the team combined in the event’s Olympic debut.
Unlike on Saturday when he captured downhill gold, Von Allmen needed some help.
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The Swiss-2 team was in fourth place after Von Allmen’s downhill run, but Nef made up a 0.42 second deficit on a rutted slalom course on the Stelvio to post a combined time of 2 minutes, 44.04 seconds.
The Swiss-1 team of Marco Odermatt and Loic Meillard tied for silver with the Austrian-1 team of Vincent Kriechmayr and Manuel Feller. Both teams finished 0.99 seconds behind.
The Netherlands won their first gold of the Games, helped by some star power.
Dutch speedskater Jutta Leerdam captured the women’s 1,000m in front of her fiance, YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul.
After securing gold, Leerdam stopped near the stands to blow kisses toward Paul.
It was a Dutch 1-2, with Femke Kok taking silver for the speedskating-loving nation. Defending Olympic champion Miho Takagi of Japan won bronze.
Mathilde Gremaud retained her Olympic freeski slopestyle title, denying Eileen Gu a gold medal for a second straight Winter Games, and once again, it was by the most slender of margins.
Gremaud won the final with a score of 86.96 from the best of her three jumps, while Gu took silver behind her Swiss rival with her best effort of 86.58.
That is a margin of 0.38. Four years ago in Beijing it was 0.33.
Gremaud, who also has a silver and bronze from previous Olympics, described it as “the best run so far of my life.”
Gu, the sport’s biggest name, has two more gold-medal shots — in big air and halfpipe.
Later on Monday, Japanese snowboarder Kokomo Murase won the women’s big air. Two-time defending champion Anna Gasser finished eighth, falling short in her bid to become the first snowboarder to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals.
Canada and the US head into the highly anticipated preliminary-round women’s ice hockey match on the back of big wins.
And a significant injury.
Caroline Harvey and Joy Dunne each had a goal and two assists in the US’ 5-0 victory over Switzerland. They improved to 3-0.
Defending champions Canada responded by beating Czechia 5-1 later, but saw captain Marie-Philip Poulin limp off in the first period and not return. It was unclear if Poulin would be available to play against the US.
The US lost to Canada in the Olympic final in 2022, but are the defending world champions and have won their past six meetings.
The final of the mixed doubles in curling is set: the US were to take on Sweden for gold.
Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse guaranteed the US their first Olympic medal in the mixed event with a 9-8 win over defending champions Italy in the semi-finals.
Swedish siblings Isabella and Rasmus Wrana beat the British pair of Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat 9-3 in a blowout that finished after seven ends.
A small error could have big consequences for Madison Chock and Evan Bates in their bid for ice dance gold.
The three-time world champions from the US made the minor mistake on their pattern step in the rhythm dance, and it left them behind France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron going into the free dance today.
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