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MILAN (AP) — An all-time large comeback and a arguable exclusion are dominating the Milan Cortina Olympics connected Day 6.
Later Thursday, Chloe Kim of the United States seeks to go the archetypal snowboarder to triumph 3 consecutive Olympic golden medals successful women's halfpipe. And NHL players connected the U.S. and Canada teams are joining the enactment successful their opening men's hockey games.
Brignone backmost successful style
For overmuch of past year, it wasn't wide if Italian skier Federica Brignone could vie astatine her location Olympics astatine all, fto unsocial contend for a medal.
She came distant with golden successful the women's super-G connected Thursday, pursuing a twelvemonth spent mostly successful rehab aft breaking aggregate bones successful her leg. She lone returned to racing past month.
Brignone shrugged disconnected difficult, foggy conditions to triumph her 4th vocation Olympic medal and become, astatine 35, the oldest pistillate golden medalist successful women’s Alpine skiing. Romane Miradoli of France took metallic and Cornelia Huetter of Austria got bronze.
Ukrainian slider excluded
As the men's skeleton contention got nether way, each the attraction was connected a Ukrainian jock who wasn't connected the track.
Vladyslav Heraskevych was barred from racing aft refusing to springiness up his program to contention successful a helmet commemorating athletes who person been killed since Russia invaded his country. The International Olympic Committee says it breaks rules against making statements connected the tract of play.
IOC President Kirsty Coventry turned up astatine the sliding way successful a last-minute bid to alteration Heraskevych's caput up of the opening tally of the contention Thursday morning.
Heraskevych, who had been a contender for the medals, refused and was excluded from the Olympics.
Heraskevych said it “looks similar discrimination” to barroom him from competing. Coventry, who said she'd hoped to find a compromise, was tearful connected what she called an “emotional morning.”
Canada's men and women triumph successful hockey
Connor McDavid had 3 assists and Jordan Binnington made 26 saves to assistance Canada bushed Czechia 5-0 successful the opening crippled of their Olympic campaign.
The U.S. men play their archetypal Olympic crippled aboriginal Thursday against Latvia.
The Canadian women responded aft their worst-ever Olympic nonaccomplishment by beating Finland 5-0 to extremity the preliminary round. That sets up a quarterfinal gathering with Germany connected Saturday.
Upset successful freestyle
In a large upset, Cooper Woods of Australia won freestyle skiing golden successful men's moguls by edging Canadian large Mikael Kingsbury — the sport’s astir decorated skier — connected a tiebreaker.
American skier Jessie Diggins overcame bruised ribs to instrumentality bronze successful the women's 10-kilometer cross-country skiing race. Frida Karlsson won her 2nd golden medal of the Milan Cortina Games by starring a 1-2 decorativeness for Sweden.
Italian speedskater Francesca Lollobrigida, whose large aunt was movie prima Gina Lollobrigida, won her 2nd golden of the Olympics by a tenth of a 2nd successful the women's 5,000 meters.
Alessandro Haemmerle of Austria and Eliot Grondin of Canada repeated arsenic golden and metallic medalists, respectively, successful men’s snowboardcross.
Germany won the squad luge, arsenic it has done astatine each Olympics since the lawsuit was added successful 2014.
Later Thursday, Arianna Fontana of Italy volition spell for a record-extending 13th vocation Olympic medal successful short-track speedskating.
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