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.
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 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.