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Many of the biggest stars of the Winter Olympics will take the stage on Day 5. Chloe Kim and Shaun White are making their first appearances in snowboard halfpipe qualifying, Mikaela Shiffrin will try to bounce back in the slalom after her she recently crashed out of the giant slalom, and Alex Hall will lead a strong American contingent into the men's freeski big air final. Stay tuned for updates throughout the night...

For 16 years, Lindsey Jacobellis has been the poster child for hard luck at the Olympics. A series of incidents, most notably her famous crash in Torino, have prevented her from winning gold each time despite her dominance and longevity in an unpredictable sport.

Now at 36 years old, Jacobellis is finally an Olympic champion. She won every heat race en route to the gold medal on Wednesday, eliminating 2018 champion Michela Moioli in the semifinal and then outdueling French star Chloe Trespeuch in the big final. Once Jacobellis grabbed the holeshot in the final, Trespeuch was unable to get around her despite applying pressure the entire race.

With the win, Jacobellis is now the oldest snowboarder in Olympic history to win a medal. She's also won the United States' first gold medal of the 2022 Winter Games, ending the country's longest-ever wait for a gold medal.

Results: Women's Snowboard Cross

🥇 Lindsey Jacobellis (USA)

🥈 Chloe Trespeuch (FRA)

🥉 Meryeta Odine (CAN)

FULL RESULTS

— Shawn Smith

Heartbreak and exaltation.

With Mikaela Shiffrin watching bleary-eyed from the bottom of the hill, her strongest competitor -- Slovakia's Petra Vlhova -- jumped and whooped and hugged her team following a blazing Run 2 that secured her the gold medal -- her first Olympic medal.

Austria's Katharina Liensberger took the silver and Switzerland's Wendy Holdener earned bronze.

Paula Moltzan was the top American finisher, in eighth place. Katie Hensien finished 26th and AJ Hurt slotted 34th.

Shiffrin made her return to Olympic action two days after skiing out of the giant slalom and it was anything but triumphant. The all-time leader in World Cup slalom races seemed to slip in her signature event and missed the fifth gate on the unforgiving "Ice River" course, ending her run mere seconds after it began.

Shiffrin, who faltered on the seventh gate in the GS, sat on the side of the course for nearly 30 minutes after her DNF and before skiing down to endure a lengthy string of media interviews.

"I mean I had every intention to go full gas and there wasn’t really space in the course to slip, not even a little," she said. “It makes me second guess the last 15 years, everything I thought I knew about my own skiing and slalom and racing mentality."

Results: Women's Slalom

🥇 Petra Vlhova (SVK)

🥈 Katharina Liensberger (AUT)

🥉 Wendy Holdener (SUI)

FULL RESULTS

— Nate Stuhlbarg

More Olympic drama for Shaun White, this time in the qualifying round.

White, a three-time gold medalist and snowboarding legend, has said that he'll be retiring after these Olympic Games, but the end nearly came sooner than expected when he fell on his signature trick, the double McTwist 1260, during his opening run of the prelim. Facing elimination, White came through in the clutch once again by landing his second and final run — bringing back memories of his performance in the Olympic final four years ago — and safely moving into fourth place.

While he's no longer considered the favorite in halfpipe, White is still capable of landing many of the biggest tricks and is always a podium contender. The question is: Does he have the triple cork that may be needed for victory?

Ayumu Hirano has landed the triple cork in multiple contests. His Japanese teammates Ruka Hirano (no relation) and Yuto Totsuka have landed it in training. Australian Scotty James is rumored to have been working on the trick at a private halfpipe. All four of those riders easily qualified for the final, setting up what could be a historic showdown in just two days.

Apart from White, two other Americans, Taylor Gold and Chase Josey, also advanced to the 12-rider final.

FULL RESULTS

— Shawn Smith

Heavily favored to defend her gold medal in women's halfpipe, Chloe Kim was able to cruise into tomorrow's final without having to reach too deep into her bag of tricks. Kim landed a strong first run that included a cab 900 and a switch backside 540 — enough to put her atop the leaderboard. Although Kim fell on her second run, no rider came close to topping her 87.75 score, and she'll head into the final as the top qualifier. 

The most surprising result of the day involved Kim's teammate Maddie Mastro, who was unable to put down a run of her usual quality and was forced to spend a large portion of the contest on the bubble for the 12-rider final. It looked as though Mastro, who has been working on a double cork, might squeeze her way in, but she was eventually knocked out of 12th place by one of the last riders to drop and narrowly missed the cut.

Among the notable riders joining Kim in the final will be Spain's Queralt Castellet, the Chinese duo of Cai Xuetong and Liu Jiayu, and the Japanese trio of Mitsuki Ono, Sena Tomita and Ruki Tomita.

FULL RESULTS

— Shawn Smith

One day after the women put on an epic show at the Shougang Big Air venue, the men followed suit with a huckfest full of 1620s, 1800s and 1980s. Norway's Birk Ruud was untouchable from the start, stomping a switch triple cork 1920 and double bio 1800 on his first two runs to ultimately win the gold medal.

The U.S. earned its fifth silver medal of these Winter Olympics thanks to Colby Stevenson. The Park City native landed a nose butter triple cork 1620 and switch double cork 1800 during the contest to finish as the runner-up ahead of Swedish legend Henrik Harlaut.

American Alex Hall entered as one of the favorites, and he delivered a high-scoring trick on his second run by landing a double cork 1980 with his signature Buick grab. But in big air, skiers are judged on their best two tricks (out of three runs), and neither of his other attempts scored high enough to put him in medal position. Had Hall landed his final trick, a switch 2160, he likely would have shaken up the podium though.

Results: Men's Freeski Big Air

🥇 Birk Ruud (NOR)

🥈 Colby Stevenson (USA)

🥉 Henrik Harlaut (SWE)

FULL RESULTS

— Shawn Smith

Team USA and the Russian Olympic Committee served notice that John Shuster's defending gold medalist Americans would neither be shaken by mistakes nor afraid to play aggressive in a tense, extra-end 6-5 win.

Credit to the ROC for matching up well with Shuster, Matt Hamilton, John Landsteiner, and Chris Plys, but Team USA shook off a bad miss by Hamilton and took two points with a difficult shot when one would've done in getting through to extra ends with a 6-5 win.

GAME STATS | GAME RECAP

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Canada scored a deceptive extra-end win over Denmark 10-5, Sweden tipped China 6-4, and Norway upended Switzerland 7-4.

— Nicholas Mendola

Goals were at a premium as men’s hockey began its run at the 2022 Winter Olympics on Wednesday.

One-score games often get decided by funny hops and bounces, and they rarely get weirder than the goal credited to former Edmonton Oilers forward Anton Slepyshev in the ROC's 1-0 win over Switzerland.

Cognizant of a clock with less than five seconds on it in the first period, Slepyshev flung a hopeful backhand toward Reto Berra's goal. Swiss winger Enzo Corvi's bid to kick the effort wide of the near post saw the puck smack off his right shin guard and into the net with just 2.7 seconds remaining in the opening frame.

There were chances to score on the international ice, but the teams went a combined 0-for-7 on the power play and Philadelphia Flyers prospect Ivan Fedotov made 33 saves for his shutout. Berra finished with 29 saves, only beaten by Slepyshev's hopeful heave.

Click here to view all the stats from the ROC's win over Switzerland, and click here to watch the full event replay from start to finish.

Denmark scored its first Olympic win, stunning favored Czech Republic on the strength of two first-period goals in a 2-1 win.

Denmark was out-shot 40-17 but Sebastian Dahm stopped 39 of them in what is likely to stand as the Danes' moment of the tournament.

Markus Lauridsen put Denmark in front at the 11:21 mark of the first period and ex-Detroit Red Wings star Frans Nielsen made the most of a penalty shot with a quick cut to his right to put a backhand past KHL goalie Simon Hrubec.

Jan Kovar pulled one back for the Czechs with a clinical shot over Dahm's shoulder but could not solve outstanding Danish goalkeeper again.

— Nicholas Mendola

Over at the Capital Indoor Stadium, Hwang Dae-Heon of South Korea captured gold in the short track men's 1500m as Hungary's Shaoang Liu, who set a new Olympic record in Quarterfinal 1, finished fourth in the final. Andrew Heo and Ryan Pivirotto, the two Americans in the 1500m, didn't make it past the quarterfinals.

Americans Kristen Santos, Maame Biney and Corrine Stoddard advanced to the quarterfinals in the women's 1000m, but the women's 3000m relay team of Santos, Biney, Stoddard and Julie Letai finished fourth in the semifinals and are out of medal contention.

Results: Men's 1500m

🥇 Hwang Dae-Heon (KOR)

🥈 Steven Dubois (CAN)

🥉 Semyon Elistratov (ROC)

FULL RESULTS

— Mia Zanzucchi

Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt claimed their third consecutive gold medal in luge doubles with a time of 1:56.554. The duo set a track record during Run 1 with a time of 58.255. Fellow countrymen Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken finished just .099 behind them. The Austrian team of Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller improved upon their fourth-place finish in PyeongChang, bringing home the bronze in 2022.

Wendl and Arlt become the first athletes to win this event three times at the Olympics. Germany has won five of the nine luge medals awarded so far at the 2022 Winter Games.

The Americans Zack DiGregorio and Sean Hollander finished 11th overall, overcoming a few skids between curves 12 and 13.

Results: Luge Doubles

🥇Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt (GER)

🥈Toni Eggert / Sascha Benecken (GER)

🥉Thomas Steu / Loren Koller (AUT)

FULL RESULTS

— Stephanie De Lancey

In an event that takes hours to complete between the ski jump and cross-country skiing, this race came down to the final hill in thrilling fashion.

Germany’s Vinzenz Geiger came-from-behind on the final turn to capture the gold medal with a time of 25:07.7. Norway’s Joergen Graabak finished just .8 of a second later. Austria’s Lukas Greiderer secured the bronze medal, becoming the 100th man to medal in the event.

The day started with two of the top racers, Jarl Magnus Riiber and two-time reigning Olympic champion Eric Frenzel, in COVID-19 protocols, leaving an opportunity for others to medal. Johannes Lamparter was favored to win a medal but came up just short when countryman Greiderer passed him.

Geiger’s win was especially impressive, overcoming a 1:26 gap after the ski jump portion of the event. It is his first individual gold medal at a winter Olympics.

Results: Nordic Combined 10km Normal Hill

🥇 Vinzenz Geiger (GER)

🥈 Joergen Graabak (NOR)

🥉 Lukas Greiderer (AUS)

FULL RESULTS

— Stephanie De Lancey