GO-lympics Recap: US Women’s Hockey To Play For Gold, Team USA Snags Medals At Moguls, And More
From hockey to moguls, US athletes are playing hard at the Winter Games.
Featured Image: Team USA Women’s Hockey. Photo by Elsa/Getty Images.
Elis Lundholm Competes As First-Ever Openly Transgender Winter Olympian
Swedish freestyle skier Elis Lundholm makes queer history as the first-ever out transgender Winter Olympian. Lundholm, a trans man, competed in the women’s mogul event, adhering to the Olympics’ anti-trans restriction. Unfortunately, commentators misgendered Lundholm. NBC issued an apology and removed the replay, stating, “Today we streamed an international feed with non-NBCUniversal commentators who misgendered Olympian Elis Lundholm. We apologize to Elis and our viewers, and we have removed the replay of that feed.”
Team USA Women’s Hockey Advances to Gold Medal Game
Women’s ice hockey is continuing to crush the competition. Team USA advanced to the gold medal game versus our neighbor and rival Canada, which you can tune in and watch on Thursday, Feb 19 at 1:10 pm ET. They defeated Sweden 5-0 to reach the final. In every matchup on their run to the gold, Team USA has scored 5 or more goals.
Elana Meyers Taylor Becomes Oldest US Woman to Medal at the Winter Olympics
At 41 years old, Elana Meyers Taylor becomes the oldest US woman to win a Winter Olympics medal in the monobob. She is a 5-time Olympic medalist, making her the most decorated American woman in Winter Olympic history. The mother of two and wife of fellow Olympic bobsledder Nic Taylor finally captured her first gold medal. Joining her on the podium was 5-time Olympic medalist Kaillie Armbruster Humphries, who won bronze.
Team USA’s Jaelin Kauf and Elizabeth Lemely Medal in Debut of Dual Moguls
Team USA’s Jaelin Kauf and Elizabeth Lemely win silver and bronze as the dual moguls event made its Olympic debut in Milan-Cortina. Kauf and Lemely also medaled in the single moguls, which made them the first mogul skiers to win two medals at the same Olympic Games. The dual moguls event is different from single moguls because two skiers race down the hill at the same time rather than one at a time. The moguls events are when skiers traverse large, closely spaced, and often intentionally constructed bumps on a ski slope formed by skiers pushing snow into mounds during sharp, repetitive turns to create a challenging “field.” And that’s as much as I understand, so please no more questions.
