20 Team USA Olympic gold medals that shocked world
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Team USA won the women’s hockey gold medal in an absolute thriller today in Milan, beating the Canadian club 2-1 in overtime after rallying to tie the game with about two minutes left. Megan Keller scored the golden goal at 4:07 in the 3-on-3 OT frame to secure the favored Americans’ third Olympic championship.
With the Americans having pulled their goalie and in desperation mode — just two minutes from losing the gold medal to arch-rival Canada — Hilary Knight came to the rescue. Knight redirected a Laila Edwards rocket from the point past Canadian goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens,
The United States packed a week’s worth of drama into a single winter day in Italy, turning Thursday in Milan Cortina into a rolling reel of gold-medal moments, near-misses, and clutch escapes. At one end of the Games,
This was the seventh gold medal match — and fifth in a row — between the two hockey powerhouses.
Team USA wasn’t expected to get many medals Thursday. But the events it was in contention for were important ones. The U.S. came into Thursday still third in overall medals, still trailing Norway and Italy.
Team USA figure skater Alysa Liu delivered a superb routine to win gold in dramatic fashion, highlighting an action-packed Day 13 at the Milan Cortina Games. Liu secured the first gold medal since 2002,
The United States women’s hockey team has secured a gold medal in Milan-Cortina after the overtime heroics of 29 year old star Megan Keller. The Michigan native is competing at her third Winter Olympics,
Despite trailing with 2 minutes remaining in regulation, the Americans tied the game to stay alive, before Megan Keller stunned the Canadians and sealed a 2-1 win in overtime.
American Alysa Liu won gold in women's figure skating, becoming the first American woman to do so since 2002. American speedskater Jordan Stolz took silver in the 1,500-meter final. He'd previously won two gold medals at these Games, and he'll have another shot to medal Saturday.
Team Sprint (Freestyle) — The Team Sprint event fields paired teams of two athletes each, and follows the interval-start format. Each of a team’s two skiers alternate in timed turns around the event’s 1,585-meter (approximately 1 mile) course, with the event’s final round consisting of more overall laps than the earlier, qualifying knockout round.
MILAN — As Team USA players spoke to reporters on a rainy Thursday morning outside the Olympic Village, Lucas Raymond and Tim Stutzle stood 10 or so feet down the street, suitcases in hand. The Swede and German dapped each other up, chatted for a few minutes, then waded off into separate Ubers, on their way back to North America.
Britain’s men’s curling team are guaranteed at least a silver medal after an 8-5 victory over Switzerland in the Olympic semi-final. Bruce Mouat’s side had faced a nervous wait to see if they would make the semi-final cut,