Dutch set record in team skate pursuit

PYEONGCHANG: The Netherlands won the heat in the women’s team pursuit speedskating quarterfinals in Olympic-record time. Marrit Leenstra, Ireen Wust and Antoinette de Jong clocked in 2 minutes, 55.61 seconds on Monday. That bettered the old mark of 2 minutes, 58.05 seconds set by the Netherlands in Sochi.

The surprise winner of the super-g in Alpine skiing is not even attempting to compete in the downhill. Ester Ledecka of the Czech Republic will be the first women’s super-g champion to not enter the downhill at the same Winter Games since Diann Roffe in 1994.Ledecka stunned Lindsey Vonn, defending champion Anna Veith and everyone else by coming out of nowhere to win the super-g on Saturday after never finishing better than seventh in 19 career World Cup ski races.

MALFUNCTION

French ice dancer Gabriella Papadakis’ costume has come unhooked at the neckline, exposing her breast. The first notes of Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” had just played when Papadakis suddenly became aware that people were about to see a whole lot more of her shape than she had planned. She calls it her “worst nightmare happening at the 10 9 6 5 5 9 5 5 5 3 8 4 2 6 2

Olympics.” The performance was being shown live on international television, and people immediately began posting screen grabs on social media. Papadakis and her partner, Guillaume Cizeron, are second behind Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.

GAY KISS

Gay freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy said it was a moment that he “never dreamed” possible as a child after he was filmed kissing his partner on live television at the Olympics.

The 26-year-old American finished 12th in the slopestyle on Sunday but still found himself making headlines after kissing his boyfriend at the bottom of the slope while the TV cameras were on him. Kenworthy tweeted on Monday alongside a still image of the now-famous kiss: “Didn’t realise this moment was being filmed yesterday but I’m so happy that it was.”