Mike Sullivan will coach U.S. team in Winter Olympics.

Mike Sullivan will be named head coach of the U.S. men’s Olympic ice hockey team for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, a source confirmed Monday.

Sullivan is a worthy selection given his resume since being named Penguins coach in 2015. He has led the team to two Stanley Cup titles. He finished in the top six in voting for the Jack Adams Award in each of the past two seasons. And in 2021, he climbed to third all time in wins by an American head coach.

Sullivan has been involved in the USA Hockey program for more than four decades. He often speaks at coaching clinics and assists with grassroots efforts to grow the game.

Since retiring as a player in 2002 and getting into coaching, he has held various roles with U.S. teams participating in international competitions, including being an assistant coach at the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy. Most recently, the 53-year-old was an assistant for Team USA at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.

Map flap

NBC has chosen not to engage in deate after complaints from China over the weekend about how the network depicted the country’s map when its athletes marched during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics.

Onscreen graphics during the ceremony depicted maps of each country as the athletes marched, yet some in China expressed anger that the map did not include the island of Taiwan or several islands in the South China Sea where there are disputes over territorial control.

The fate of Taiwan, which China considers a breakaway province while the country views itself as a sovereign nation, has been an issue for decades.

Amazing debut

Luka Doncic, 22, made a spectacular Olympic debut with 48 points, tied for the second-highest total in men’s basketball history, to lead Slovenia to a 118-100 victory. It was Slovenia’s first Olympic game ever.

Ledecky fastest qualifier

Katie Ledecky qualified fastest for the first women’s 1,500-meter freestyle at the Games and in the 200. This after she earned a silver medal in the 400. In all, the American swam 2,100 meters Monday. The 1,500, a grueling 30-lap race that has been a men’s event at the Olympics since 1904, is being contested by the women for the first time, although they’ve been competing in it at the world championships since 2001.

Suspicious withdraws

Tohar Butbul could only shake his head in resignation after the Israeli judo star’s first two potential opponents dropped out shortly before they would have faced him. Algeria’s Fetih Nourine withdrew Saturday when he learned he would meet Butbul if he advanced to the second round Monday, explicitly citing his support for Palestinians for his decision. On Monday, Sudan’s Mohamed Abdalrasool didn’t show up to face Butbul in their round of 32 bout despite weighing in earlier.