Sarah Nurse was lamenting the lack of an available Tim Hortons in Beijing.
It wasnB次元官网网址檛 that the forward on CanadaB次元官网网址檚 Olympic womenB次元官网网址檚 hockey team was craving a cup of joe. She just felt goaltender Ann-Ren茅e Desbiens deserved a bit of a pick-me-up after stopping 51 shots Tuesday in a 4-2 win over the archrival United States.
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It was another classic battle between the two womenB次元官网网址檚 powers who will almost certainly meet again in the Feb. 17 gold-medal game. Canada has won four of the six gold medals in womenB次元官网网址檚 hockey since the sport was introduced at the 1998 Nagano Games, while the defending champion U.S. has won the other two.
Brianne Jenner scored twice for Canada, while captain Marie-Philip Poulin converted a penalty shot. Jamie Lee Rattray had CanadaB次元官网网址檚 other goal.
Dani Cameranesi and Alex Carpenter countered for the U.S., which finished second in the group at 3-1.
Canada will face the third-place team in Group B in the quarterfinals, but outside of a favourable matchup in the final eight Canada head coach Troy Ryan wasnB次元官网网址檛 reading too much into winning the group.
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After a four-medal day on Monday, Tuesday was a day marked by podium near-misses despite promising performances by CanadaB次元官网网址檚 young athletes in Beijing.
Freestyle skier Megan Oldham was just off the podium in the womenB次元官网网址檚 big air competition a day after finishing first in qualifying, while alpine skier Jack Crawford was sixth in the menB次元官网网址檚 super-G. CalgaryB次元官网网址檚 Scott Gow put together CanadaB次元官网网址檚 best performance ever in a menB次元官网网址檚 20-kilometre biathlon, finishing fifth.
Oldham was consistent in her three runs on Tuesday, and landed a trick she had never done in competition before on her final jump.
It just wasnB次元官网网址檛 enough to get on the podium.
American-born Eileen Gu, who competes for China, wowed the few spectators on hand when she clinched gold on her final jump with a double cork 1620 B次元官网网址� a move in which skiers spin 4 1/2 times while rotating twice off-axis while 20-some feet in the air.
Tess Ledeux of France earned silver and SwitzerlandB次元官网网址檚 Mathilde Gremaud took bronze.
Oldham hit a switch double-cork 1080 B次元官网网址� three full spins, two off-axis rotations and a backwards jump or landing B次元官网网址� for the first time in competition. She also landed a double-cork 1260.
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GowB次元官网网址檚 fifth-place finish in the menB次元官网网址檚 20-kilometre individual biathlon was enough to equal CanadaB次元官网网址檚 best-ever result in a menB次元官网网址檚 biathlon event. The 31-year-old Gow missed just one of his 20 targets and finished the event in a time of 49 minutes, 53 seconds, more than a minute behind gold medallist Quentin Fillon Maillet of France.
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Fillon Maillet won decisively and added a gold medal to the silver he won in the mixed relay over the weekend. Anton Smolski of Belarus shot clean B次元官网网址� hitting all 20 of his targets B次元官网网址� and came in 14.8 seconds behind the Frenchman.
A day after finishing fourth in the menB次元官网网址檚 downhill, missing the podium by 0.07 seconds, Crawford was impressive again with a sixth-place finish in the super-G. But he considers the discipline his specialty and hoped he could win his first-ever Olympic medal in the race.
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AustriaB次元官网网址檚 Matthias Mayer won gold to successfully defend his Olympic title. Ryan Cochran-Siegle of the United States earned silver and NorwayB次元官网网址檚 Aamodt Aleksander Kilde took bronze.
CalgaryB次元官网网址檚 Trevor Philp briefly lost his pole on his run but recovered for a time of 1:21.34 to place 10th.
Also Tuesday, Canadian figure skater Keegan Messing finally got into competition after a trying trek to Beijing.
A day after arriving in China, he skated a clean menB次元官网网址檚 short program that included a quadruple toe loop to score 93.24 points, good for ninth place.
American Nathan Chen led the way, scoring 113.97 B次元官网网址� a world short program record. Yuma Kagiyama was second with 108.12, and Japanese teammate Shoma Uno third with 105.90.
Messing, who captured his first Canadian title last month in Ottawa, tested positive for COVID-19 in Vancouver before the Canadian teamB次元官网网址檚 charter to Beijing.
Needing four negative tests before getting the green light to travel, he was forced to spend about a week in Vancouver, running up and down his hotel stairwell to keep fit before he was cleared to practise during private ice time in the city.
He finally flew to China via Montreal and Milan, arriving in Beijing on Monday morning, less than 24 hours before the short program.
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