Olympic medalist Adam Rippon answers one of the most common questions Winter Olympians get asked, explaining why figure skaters still get dizzy and how their brains learn to recover from spinning.
What to Know
- Brazilian skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, who won South America’s first Winter Olympic gold, lost his chance at a second medal when he crashed in his first run in the slalom. River Radamus is representing the U.S. in the event.
- Women, including Team USA’s Kristen Santos-Griswold, compete for medals this morning in the short track speed skating 1000m. The quarterfinals begin at 5 a.m. ET.
- The U.S. has surged through the women’s hockey tournament, winning all of its five games, and today the team takes on the other 5-0 team in the tournament, Sweden, in the semifinals at 10:40 a.m. ET. Later in the day rival Canada, 4-1, takes on Switzerland.
- As controversy swirls around Olympic curling over rule-breaking allegations, both the women and the men continue round-robin play today with women starting at 3:05 a.m. ET and men at 8:05 a.m. ET. The U.S. women take on Italy at 1:05 p.m. ET.
- It’s the second of three medal shots for San Francisco-born Chinese skier Eileen Gu, who started her Olympics with silver in slopestyle and now heads to the women’s freeski big air final at 1:30 p.m. ET.
- Medals will be awarded this afternoon in pairs figure skating (2 p.m. ET), with Team USA duo Danny O’Shea and Ellie Kam going into today’s free skate in seventh place and Spencer Howe and Emily Chan in ninth after Sunday’s short program.
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