Jordan Stolz Sets Records, Snaps Americans' Skid At Winter Olympics

Welcome to your regular reappraisal and preview of this year’s Milan-Cortina Olympics. My sanction is John Cherwa and I’m your circuit head for nan Games arsenic nan U.S. finds a caller prima successful velocity skater Jason Stoltz. The U.S. sewage nan trifecta connected Saturday pinch a gold, metallic and bronze.

Going into nan Games, nan U.S. had its accustomed cadre of prima powerfulness that was expected to propel nan state to nan apical of nan badge standings. But past reality group in. Ilia Malinin had a bully lead heading into nan free skate successful men’s fig skating. Then, he had a ghastly performance, falling twice, and slipping to eighth. Chloe Kim, two-time Olympic champion successful nan women’s halfpipe, struggled for repeated cleanable runs and vanished second. Then, dreamers believed Lindsey Vonn, skating pinch a torn ACL, could navigate nan women’s downhill to nan badge podium. She collapsed precocious successful nan course.

Enter nan latest prima for nan United States. Speed skater Jordan Stolz, who picked up his 2nd golden of nan Games by winning nan men’s 500 meters to spell pinch his golden successful nan 1,000 meters. Both were group successful Olympic grounds time. The 21-year-old from Wisconsin still has astatine slightest 2 events to go, hoping to up his individual and nan U.S. badge count. He’s group to compete successful nan men’s 1,500 (Thursday), and nan men’s wide commencement (Saturday).

The only different medals nan U.S. won connected Saturday were successful nan freestyle skiing women’s dual moguls. An Aussie was nan winner, but Jaelin Kauf sewage nan metallic and Liz Lemley (not to beryllium confused pinch 30 Rock’s Liz Lemon) won nan B last for nan bronze. This was nan first quality of dual moguls successful nan Olympics.

Catching up connected nan men’s lucky stage, nan Kings suffered a terrible rustle erstwhile guardant Kevin Fiala sustained a season-ending injury playing for Switzerland connected Friday. Fiala had a reliable collision pinch Canada’s Tom Wilson pinch only a mates of minutes to play successful nan game. He was stretchered disconnected pinch a little limb injury. He had room successful Italy connected Saturday greeting and was said to beryllium done for some Olympic and NHL title nan remainder of this season.

The Kings are connected nan cusp of making nan playoffs and this, nary doubt, will make their roadworthy to nan postseason that overmuch much difficult. Fiala had 18 goals and 40 points truthful acold this play successful 56 games.

NBC should inquire Today show personalities Craig Melvin, Al Roker and Dylan Dryer to move successful their journalistic credentials aft an embarrassing, saccharine question and reply pinch IOC President Kirsty Coventry connected nan Third Hour of “Today” connected Friday. There should person been a informing that watching nan question and reply could origin an contiguous summation successful humor sugar. The trio, doing nan question and reply from New York, covered specified difficult topics of really overmuch nosy everyone is having successful Italy, really nan Olympic tone is pervasive and, of course, really cuddly nan mascots are.

But successful nary measurement did they reside what would person been nan first mobility immoderate legit journalist would ask, Coventry’s barring of Ukranian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych for wanting to grant his fallen Ukranian athletes pinch stickers connected his racing helmet was ne'er mentioned. We’ll springiness you that Roker and Dryer are meteorologists, but location is nary excuse for Melvin’s deficiency of journalistic chops.

Elsewhere connected Saturday

— Good time for U.S. curlers arsenic nan women (2-1 record) hit Japan 7-4, while nan men (2-2) hit Germany 8-6. (Valentine’s Day infinitesimal astatine restaurant. My wife: “Are you nan only 1 present straining to spot nan curling people connected TV?” Answer: “Yes.”)

— The U.S. men’s squad (2-0) rallied from a 2-1 shortage to hit Denmark 6-3. Germany is next.

— Brazil topped 3 Swiss skiers, who vanished 2nd done fourth, to triumph nan men’s elephantine slalom. River Radamus of nan U.S. was 17th.

— Norway, connected its measurement to its 10th golden medal, won nan women’s 4x7.5 km transverse state relay, upsetting Sweden. The U.S. managed a fifth-place finish.

— Austria upset Germany, which vanished 2nd and third, successful nan women’s skeleton. Kelly Curtis of nan U.S. was 12th.

—- Slovenia picked up its first golden of nan Games successful nan men’s skis jumping, ample hill. Tate Frantz of nan U.S. was 19th.

— Norway — who else? — won nan women’s 7.5 km sprint successful nan biathlon. France sewage metallic and bronze. Deedra Irwin was nan apical U.S. competitor successful 47th.

Best Thing to Watch connected TV today

We went disconnected nan committee yesterday and picked nan men’s 500 successful velocity skating arsenic our champion bet. Turned retired a wise choice. Today, let’s make different swerve and look to nan mixed squad snowboard cross, successful which nan U.S. is nan defending golden champion. You’ve sewage returnee Nick Baumgartner, 44, pinch caller partner Faye Thelen. He won golden successful Beijing pinch Lindsey Jacobellis, who is taking a break this year. The qualification starts astatine 4:45 a.m. PST, pinch nan finals astatine 5:35 a.m. PST. After a time off, nan fig skating gets backmost connected nan crystal pinch nan pairs short program. The U.S. squad of Ellie Kim and Danny O’Shea is going 14th of 19th pairs pinch a 10:15 a.m. PST commencement for competition. The U.S. men’s lucky squad (2-0) plays Germany astatine 12:10 p.m. PST.

Favorite photograph of nan day

The Netherlands’ speedskater Jenning de Boo clutches his caput aft losing to American Jordan Stolz successful nan 500 last successful Milan connected Saturday.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Times photographer Robert Gauthier is astatine nan Winter Olympics. Each time Times newsletter editor Houston Mitchell will prime a favourite photograph from nan galore he has taken.

Sunday’s Olympic TV and streaming schedule

Sunday’s unrecorded TV and streaming broadcasts for nan Milan-Cortina Olympics unless noted (subject to change). All events watercourse unrecorded connected Peacock aliases NBCOlympics.com pinch a streaming aliases cablegram login. All times Pacific. 🏅 — badge arena for unrecorded broadcasts.

MULTIPLE SPORTS
8 p.m. — “Primetime successful Milan” (delay): Skiing, fig skating, bobsled, speedskating and more. | NBC

ALPINE SKIING
1 a.m. — Women’s elephantine slalom, Run 1 | USA
4:30 a.m. — 🏅Women’s elephantine slalom, Run 2 | NBC

BIATHLON
2:15 a.m. — 🏅Men’s 12.5-kilometer pursuit | Peacock
5:45 a.m. — 🏅Women’s 10-kilometer pursuit | NBC
6:30 a.m. — Men’s 12.5-kilometer pursuit (delay) | USA
8:30 a.m. — Men’s 12.5-kilometer pursuit (re-air) | NBC

BOBSLED
1 a.m. — Women’s monobob, Run 1 | Peacock
2:50 a.m. — Women’s monobob, Run 2 | Peacock
6:30 a.m. — Women’s monobob, Run 1 (delay) | NBC
7:30 a.m. — Women’s monobob, Run 2 (delay) | NBC

CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING
3 a.m. — 🏅Men’s 4x7.5-kilometer relay | USA
4 a.m. — 🏅Men’s 4x7.5-kilometer relay | NBC

CURLING
Men (round robin)
12:05 a.m. — U.S. vs. Sweden | Peacock
12:05 a.m. — Germany vs. Britain | Peacock
12:05 a.m. — Norway vs. Italy | Peacock
Women (round robin)
5:05 a.m. — U.S. vs. China | Peacock
5:05 a.m. — Denmark vs. Italy | Peacock
5:05 a.m. — Britain vs. Sweden | Peacock
5:05 a.m. — Japan vs. South Korea | Peacock
5:30 a.m. — U.S. vs. China (in progress) | CNBC
Men (round robin)
8 a.m. — U.S. vs. Sweden (delay) | CNBC
10:05 a.m. — U.S. vs. Norway | Peacock
10:05 a.m. — China vs. Canada | Peacock
10:05 a.m. — Britain vs. Switzerland | Peacock
10:05 a.m. — Italy vs. Czechia | Peacock

FIGURE SKATING
8:20 a.m. — Pairs, short program, warmup | Peacock
10:30 a.m. — Pairs, short programme | USA
Noon — Pairs, short programme | NBC

FREESTYLE SKIING
1:40 a.m. — 🏅Men’s dual moguls, last | USA
9:30 a.m. — Men’s dual moguls, last (re-air) | NBC
10:40 a.m. — Men’s large air, qualifying | NBC

HOCKEY
Men (group play)
3 a.m. — Switzerland vs. Czechia | CNBC
7:40 a.m. — Canada vs. France | USA
10 a.m. — Denmark vs. Latvia | CNBC
12:10 p.m. — U.S. vs. Germany | USA

SKELETON
9 a.m. — 🏅Mixed squad arena | Peacock
10:15 a.m. — Mixed squad arena (delay) | NBC

SKI JUMPING
8:30 a.m. — 🏅Women’s ample hill, finals | Peacock

SNOWBOARDING
4:45 a.m. — 🏅Mixed squad snowboard cross, finals | USA
5:30 a.m. — Mixed squad snowboard cross, finals | NBC

SPEEDSKATING
7 a.m. — Men’s squad pursuit, qualifying | NBC
8 a.m. — 🏅Women’s 500 meters | NBC

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Until adjacent time...

That concludes today’s Sports Report Olympic Edition newsletter. If you person immoderate feedback, ideas for betterment aliases things you’d for illustration to see, email newsletter editor Houston Mitchell astatine houston.mitchell@latimes.com. To get this newsletter successful your inbox, click here and prime nan Sports Report.