SPORTS Tuesday, February 20, 2018 21 MEDAL TABLE Country Gold Silver Bronze Total Lorentzen 1. Norway 11 9 8 28 2. Germany 10 6 4 20 3. Canada 6 5 6 17 4. Netherlands 6 5 2 13 lands 5. United States 5 3 2 10 500m U.S. players celebrate scoring a goal (Pic courtesy: gold Xinhua) Pyeongchang having achieved 26 in both 1994 and orway’s Havard Lorentzen set a 2014. USA to face NWinter Olympic record to win The event follows a time trial format, the men’s 500m speed skating final by with the 32 qualifiers taking it in turn Canada in final 0.01 seconds. to race in pairs in separate lanes on a Pyeongchang This season’s World Cup leader 400m oval track. he United States will face Canada in edged out South Korea’s Cha Min- Japan’s Tsubasa Hasegawa, skating Thursday’s women’s ice hockey final as they kyu after clocking 34.41 seconds at in the first pair of 18 pairs, set the early lookT to win their first Olympic gold medal in the Gangneung Oval. mark of 35.08 seconds. event for 20 years. Gao Tingyu finished third for China, It took until the 10th pair for The American team thumped Finland 5-0 in 0.24 seconds behind Lorentzen. world champion and Sochi 2014 the semi-finals, before Canada matched that result It is the first time in 70 years that silver medallist Jan Smeekens from against the Olympic athletes from Russia. Norway have claimed the title after the Netherland’s to move ahead with It will be the fourth successive time the North Finn Helgesen’s gold medal in 1948. 34.930 seconds. American neighbours have contested the gold- Norway have now won 27 medals in Smeekens was soon relegated to medal match. Pyeongchang, setting a new record for third as Gao - with a track record - and “It’s honestly a dream come true,” said USA their most at a single Winter Olympics, Japan’s Jojo Kato moved ahead. (BBC) forward Hilary Knight. “It’s the world’s biggest stage. It’s the game you’ve been dreaming of. You have to keep Havard Lorentzen celebrates (Pic courtesy: Xinhua) working and do the things you do well.” Norway beat Germany The superpowers of women’s ice hockey have (L to R) Gold medallists Germany’s Johannes Lochner and Christopher Pyeongchang Germany’s Karl Geiger, also dominated in the World Championships, Weber, Canada’s Justin Kripps and Alexander Kopacz pose orway beat Germany and Stephan Leyhe, Richard Freitag meeting in every final since the competition began Poland to win the men’s and Andreas Wellinger finished in 1990. (BBC) teamN ski jumping event at the 22.8 points behind in silver. Winter Olympics for the first They finished just 3.3 points Tessa Virtue (L) and Scott Moir compete time. ahead of Poland’s Maciej Kot, (Pic courtesy: Xinhua) Daniel Andre Tande, Stefan Hula, Dawid Kubacki Andreas Stjernen, Johann and Kamil Stoch. Andre Forfang and Robert Stoch earlier retained his Johansson combined to post large hill individual title in 1098.5 points over two rounds. Pyeongchang. (BBC) Canada, Germany share bobsleigh gold Pyeongchang 12th. Canadian pair set anada and Germany Hall and brakeman Joel shared the two-man Fearon headed into Monday’s short-dance record bobsleighC Winter Olympic gold final heats in seventh, but medal as a remarkable race in finished with a combined time Pyeongchang Pyeongchang finished as a dead of 3:18.34 to slip out of the anada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir posted heat. top 10. a short-dance world record score to take the Canada’s Justin Kripps and The fastest five pilots were leadC heading into Tuesday’s Winter Olympics free Alexander Kopacz posted a separated by a quarter of a dance final. combined time of three minutes second after heat three, but the The pair, who won gold in Vancouver in 2010, 16.86 seconds after four runs drama was reserved for the final scored 83.67, leaving them 1.74 ahead of France’s - the same time as German two runs of the competition. Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron in pair Francesco Friedrich and With Canada leading Pyeongchang. Thorsten Margis. Germany by 0.06secs, it was The four-time Olympic medallists have only It is the first time the Olympic Friedrich to race first and he been beaten once since coming out of retirement title has been shared in 20 years. piloted the second-fastest run of (L to R) Team Norway’s Daniel Andre Tande, Andreas Stjernen, in late 2016. The Great Britain sled, the final heat, 0.01secs behind Johann Andre Forfang and Robert Johansson pose for photos Virtue and Moir inspired Canada to the figure piloted by Brad Hall, finished Latvia, who took bronze. (BBC) (Pic courtesy: Xinhua) skating team title last week..