Cold Days, Golden Moments Trivia Quiz

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Alysa Liu finished third in the figure skating short programme, then won the free skate to take the women's singles title. Her combined score was 226.79 points, ahead of Kaori Sakamoto's 224.90. Japan's Ami Nakai took bronze. The final result depended on both parts of the competition, so leading after the short programme did not guarantee gold.

Jordan Stolz's 1000-metre victory in the speed skating came after a close race with Jenning de Boo of the Netherlands. De Boo was ahead at the 600-metre mark, but Stolz caught him on the final lap. The American finished in 1:06.28, exactly half a second faster than de Boo. China's Ning Zhongyan won bronze.

Steven Dubois took the lead at the start of the short-track 500-metre final and kept his rivals behind him. Melle van 't Wout won silver and his brother Jens took bronze. In this event, positioning mattered as well as speed: leading the pack limited the chances for other skaters to pass. Dubois had won bronze in the same event at Beijing 2022.

Julia Taubitz won the women's singles luge for Germany. Latvia's Elina Bota took silver and the American Ashley Farquharson won bronze. Luge athletes lie on their backs and travel feet first. Taubitz put together four successful runs in Cortina after a crash had spoiled her medal hopes at Beijing 2022, where she finished seventh.

Matt Weston won the men's skeleton with a total time of 3:43.33 across four runs. Germany's Axel Jungk finished 0.88 seconds behind him. Unlike luge, skeleton involves lying face down and travelling head first. Weston also won the mixed team event with Tabitha Stoecker at these Games, giving him two gold medals.

Federica Brignone won the super-G on 12 February and the giant slalom on 15 February. Those victories followed her return from a serious leg injury. In the giant slalom, Sweden's Sara Hector and Norway's Thea Louise Stjernesund tied for silver, 0.62 seconds behind her. Both had recorded exactly the same time in each of the two runs.

Frida Karlsson won the skiathlon in 53 minutes 45.2 seconds, ahead of fellow Swede Ebba Andersson and Norway's Heidi Weng. The 20-kilometre race consisted of 10 kilometres in the classic style followed by 10 in freestyle. Classic skiing uses a mainly forward-and-back movement; freestyle permits a skating action. Karlsson broke clear with about five kilometres remaining.

Julia Simon's winning time in the 15-kilometre individual biathlon was 41:15.6, including the penalty for one missed shot. Lou Jeanmonnot made it a French gold-and-silver finish, while Bulgaria's Lora Hristova took bronze. Hristova hit every target, but Simon's combination of skiing and shooting produced the better overall time. Accuracy and pace both mattered.

Su Yiming won the men's snowboard slopestyle ahead of Japan's Taiga Hasegawa, who scored 82.13. The American Jake Canter took bronze with 79.36. Slopestyle brought a sequence of rails and jumps into one run, giving riders several chances to show their tricks. Su's winning mark of 82.41 left a gap of just 0.28 points to silver.

Eileen Gu's halfpipe gold completed a three-medal Games. She had already won silver in women's freeski slopestyle and big air. In the halfpipe, skiers performed tricks above the sides of a snow channel shaped like a broad U. Gu improved from 94.00 on her second run to 94.75 on her third; her Chinese teammate Li Fanghui took silver and Britain's Zoe Atkin won bronze.