Back to Prime Time last night--Torico promos Women’s Skating, then sends us off to Speed Skating Men's Team Pursuit Finals. A commentator says time does not matter--how philosophical. Italy takes the gold, US the silver.
Then it's the early competitors for Women's Figure Skating Short Program. Some of them are “flying the flag" of the Individual Neutral Athletes aka Russia, due to that country's ban in the games. Based on comments from the new QISEOC President, I would assume the Ruskies will be fully re-accepted by LA 2028.
More weather delays, pushing some outdoor events to the next day. They did get in Men's Ski Big Air, a rerun of which aired next. Meanwhile, Tucci has a hankering for a sammich, and Tirico goes around the games.
Back to Women’s Skating, and the final competitors aka the “Event of the Night”. The US contingent reads letters from their parents in a video package--no pressure. Johnny refers to Allysa Liu’s performance as “Silver-Lining-ly”. Amber Glenn gets her own video package about her mental battles before dropping a jump, ending up in 13th. She did qualify for the Free Skate, though.
Snoop has a day out with Martha Stewart, visiting La Scala, then dropping by the Duomo. Medal Count remains the same order--Norway, Italy, US. The Mikaela Shiffrin/Simone Biles love fest from earlier in the games is replayed. Shiffrin goes for her final event later today.
Late Night begins with Two Men Bobsled. Germany sweeps the podium. Then it’s the Men’s 4x7.5km Biathlon Relay. France takes it. Both were reruns, of course. Elana Meyers Taylor drops by via Facetime to talk to Maria Taylor, who must have been partied out from yesterday--she had virtually nothing to do.
I managed to skip recording the Today Show--no big loss. Off to Daytime coverage. We go straight to Shiffrin and her (spoiler) gold medal-winning run in Women’s Slalom, then Lowe sends us to Women’s 4x6km Biathlon Relay--France takes it in a rout.
Mary Carillo is back, checking out the Calabria region of Italy, in an obvious ad for Viking Cruises. Then it’s Cross Country--Women’s Team Sprint. Sweden wins it. Onto Men’s Team Sprint Freestlye (it’s all Cross-Country, all the time). Klaebo wins yet another gold, taking him into 2nd all time tied with Eric Heiden, (way) behind Michael Phelps. The US gets the bronze.
We check in on the Canada Hockey game, which went into overtime before they beat Czechia. Over to Women’s Aerials, which looks a lot like Big Air--I guess the difference is there’s no grabbing of the skis? China wins.
We get a video package on Matthew and Brady Tkachuck, brothers and US Hockey players. Their dad competed in four QISEs, and Lowe interviewed him afterward--he told his kids that they come home with the gold “or you’re out of the will”. Over to Men’s Snowboard SlopeStyle finals (say that three times fast). I think I’m over all the spinning.
Tirico steps in to review the day’s Hockey matches, as a set up for the US/Sweden quarterfinals. The Americans get a video package, and the battle is on…and I fast forward. The game ran late (big surprise), so I’ll find out later who won.
Speaking of--more tomorrow.
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