Finland puts up a good fight, but U.S. women rally to win
Kendall Coyne scored the go-ahead goal as the U.S. women’s hockey team rallied to beat Finland 3-1 in its Olympic opener Sunday.
Monique Lamoureux-Morando and Dani Cameranesi also scored as the Americans fought back from a 1-0 deficit and improved to 6-0 in Olympic openers.
The U.S. also improved to 7-0 against Finland in the Olympics, though the Finns, ranked third in the world, made the defending world champions work hard in a chippy game.
“That’s just a huge game for U.S. coach Robb Stauber said.
The Americans will play the Olympic Athletes from Russia on Tuesday before wrapping up the preliminary round against their biggest rival — Canada, which shut out the Russians 5-0 in their opener.
“I’m very thankful for a hard-fought first game because it shouldn’t be easy, and it wasn’t easy,” Stauber said. our team,”
Shiffrin on hold: The women’s giant slalom was postponed because of strong winds, delaying the first event for U.S. star Mikaela Shiffrin.
It was rescheduled for Thursday, same day as the men’s downhill. the
Can’t shoot straight: The 10-kilometer biathlon was supposed to be a two-man race between France’s Martin Fourcade and Norway’s Johannes Thingnes Boe.
But Fourcade, ranked No. 1 in the world, missed three of five shots from the prone position and finished eighth. Thingnes Boe, world No. 2, missed three from the prone position and one from the standing position to finish a distant 31st.
Germany’s Arnd Peiffer, ranked No. 5, hit all 10 targets to win gold. Lowell Bailey of the U.S. finished 33rd.
Slow start, fast finish: Simen Hegstad Krueger led a Norwegian sweep of the men’s 30-kilometer cross-country skiathlon despite falling and crashing on the first lap.
Krueger slipped when the mass start began and wound up at the rear of the field. But he stormed back, taking the lead with 5 kilometers to go and winning gold.
A first for France: Perrine Laffont gave France its first women’s moguls gold medal in the 26-year history of the event, landing both her jumps without a bobble.
Laffont, 19, was better than 2014 gold medalist Justine Dufour-Lapointe of Canada, who settled for silver.
The Americans had a rough night. None made the six-woman final, and top-ranked Jaelin Kauf finished seventh.
No stopping him: Dutch speedskater Sven Kramer broke his own Olympic record in the men’s 5,000 meters to win his third straight gold in the event,
Kramer won in 6 minutes, 9.76 seconds, besting the mark of 6:10.76 he set in 2014.