ninth: 2012 world champion and fifth-time Olympian Katie Uhlaender (USA)
nineteenth: Kelly Curtis (USA)
twenty first: 2018 bronze medalist Laura Deas (GBR)
twenty third: Brogan Crowley (GBR)
Up to date
22:10
Ester Ledecká’s bid to repeat her feat of successful gold in snowboarding and Alpine snowboarding has come to an finish. The Czech athlete, who already defended her title in parallel big slalom, was second on the hill in super-G and was overwhelmed by the subsequent two skiers down the hill.
Mikaela Shiffrin is eleventh within the begin order.
Oh, that second run wasn’t sufficient for you, judges? Right here. Attempt THIS.
His closing run options all the identical methods because the second, however it’s even higher. Ultimate rating: 96.00. All commentators are relieved that they received’t have to speak a couple of judging controversy. And after two silver medals, Hirano has his gold.
Australia’s Scotty James additionally has a second medal that’s one higher than his first. He takes silver with a run that might’ve received virtually any competitors till now.
Did Shaun White have a case for a bronze medal? Arduous to say. He wound up with a finest run of 85.00, simply behind Switzerland’s Jan Scherrer’s 87.25.
Judged sports activities will at all times have a little bit of subjectivity. However Hirano did a run that was empirically tougher than anybody, and he landed it completely.
21:53
Scotty James bails on his third run when he realizes it’s not going to prime his second.
The ultimate phrase goes to Ayumu Hirano, who could also be first within the eyes of a lot of the world however is second within the eyes of the judges. How does he enhance on what he simply did?
Right here we go …
21:51
Shaun White’s final run ends with a fall as he goes all-out to attempt to discover a couple of extra factors and get one other medal.
He takes off his helmet as he slides down the remainder of the pipe, waving to an appreciative crowd.
Ruka Hirano (the one who isn’t associated to Ayumu) falls once more. Which means White will end in fourth, as he did in 2014. In 5 Olympic appearances, he has by no means completed decrease than fourth.
Subsequent up: the highest two. Can James go even greater and win gold with much less controversy?
Up to date
21:45
“ROBBED” is now trending on Twitter.
Switzerland’s Jan Scherrer will proceed his nervous wait in third place after falling on his final run. Taylor Gold additionally falls and stays in fifth, which implies the one U.S. rider with an opportunity of getting a medal is … Shaun White.
Japan’s Yuto Totsuka additionally falls and is caught in tenth.
Then it’s the Australian teen Valentino Guseli, who lets unfastened a roar upon ending a powerful run. His third-run rating matches his second — 79.75. He’s sixth.
Now up, it’s the final run of a legend …
21:38
Third run, first 4 riders …
The USA’s Chase Josey improves to 79.50 and seventh place.
Switzerland’s Patrick Burgener additionally improves to 69.50, however that’s eleventh.
Germany’s Andre Hoeflich doesn’t enhance and sits in eighth.
Then it’s the large one. Kaishu Hirano, Ayumu’s youthful brother, soars 24 toes, 4 inches above the lip of the pipe. It’s breathtaking. After which he falls after a double cork 1440. He’s ninth.
21:34
Second run full, and do we’ve got a judging controversy?
Japan’s Ayumu Hirano as soon as once more opens with the triple cork, which nobody else has tried. He follows with a double cork 1440, finishing a mix that amazes NBC commentator Todd Richards. Three extra double corks comply with — 1260, 1260, 1440.
Richards says that’s our successful run. He says the torch has been handed.
The judges say it’s a 91.75.
Richards is flabbergasted. “There’s no WAY. 91.75??!!”
After the business break, Richards remains to be surprised. “The judges simply grenaded all of their credibility.”
A deeper dive reveals the Swedish decide gave a 96, which is dropped as a result of it’s the best. The US decide gave an 89, additionally dropped because the lowest mark. That leaves a 95 from the Japanese decide, 92 from France, 90 from Canada, 90 from Switzerland.
So Scotty James maintains his lead. Hirano is second. Scherrer is third. Shaun White is fourth.
Third run underway now …
21:24
And White goes to drop to 3rd right here, as a result of Australian Scotty James, the 2018 bronze medalist, simply blew up. He blew up massive time. Two double cork 1440s, a great number of frontside/bottom methods, and a few fashionable tail grabs. He’s in first with a 92.50.
However wait …
21:20
Shaun White remains to be fairly good at this. He does his finest methods first (1440 double cork) and fourth (1260 McTwist).
The rating is available in, and White strikes into second place with an 85.00.
21:16
And whereas we’re at business, Jan Scherrer of Switzerland all however clinches a spot on the rostrum with an 87.25, supplanting Taylor Gold in first place. That run doesn’t have quite a lot of massive air, however he works in quite a lot of rotations and ends with an alley-oop. (I’ll refer you as soon as once more to the FIS code checklist.)
Gold follows and falls.
Then we get one other change on the rostrum, as Germany’s Andre Hoeflich will get a 76.00, 0.25 factors forward of Australian teen Valentino Guseli. I don’t get it. Guseli’s first run appeared higher than that.
Guseli responds with a run that mixes rotation speeds and but flows easily. That is absolutely forward of Hoeflich. Certainly it’s — 79.75.
21:10
ANOTHER Japanese rider will get many of the means by means of a probably legendary run however falls close to the top. Kaishu Hirano will get almost 23 toes, 9 inches out of the pipe and hangs on to his seize lengthy sufficient to play Bohemian Rhapsody. The film. He follows with 4 double corks — 1440, 1080, 1260, 1080 — however falls laborious alongside the wall and appears to be shaken up.
In the meantime, John Shuster cleanly picks out the one GB stone in the home and picks up three factors within the fourth finish. 5-2 USA.
21:06
Fast curling test — Chris Plys tosses a pleasant hit-and-roll to go away the USA mendacity three. They’ve hammer on this fourth finish, tied 2-2.
Bruce Mouat tries a double takeout however solely will get one. John Shuster checks out his choices and delivers a rock by means of a small house to take out the remaining GB stone, leaving the USA mendacity 4.
We’ll get again to this …
21:00
Ayuko Hirano was 5 seconds away from the most effective runs in historical past. He opened with a triple cork 1440, then a double cork 1440. He follows with two 1260s however loses his steadiness on a touchdown falls in the course of the pipe.
Standings after first run 81.75 Taylor Gold (USA) 75.75 Valentino Guseli (AUS) 75.50 Kaishu Hirano (JPN)
The most effective run out of three will depend, and it’s unlikely these scores will stand as the highest three after we’re finished.
20:55
Scotty James went for a 1260-1440 mixture however didn’t have sufficient rotation on the second a part of it, inflicting him to slip down the wall.
20:54
Shaun White received gold on this occasion in 2006, 2010 and 2018. He took fourth in 2014. He dominated the X Video games for 15 years or so and likewise received quite a lot of X Video games skateboarding honors.
He opens with a double cork 1440. That’s a stunner. He finishes with back-to-back 1260, one in all them a McTwist.
It’s not fully clear, although, and he will get a 72.00, good for fourth place.
Ruka Hirano falls. He received’t depend that one.
Two extra to go within the first spherical, beginning with Australia’s Scotty James.
20:48
Kaishu Hirano simply raised the bar. After which jumped over it. Or, on condition that his peak above the pipe was given as 22 toes, pole vaulted over it. The Japanese rider will get means up for a technique seize and follows with three double corks. He will get a 75.50.
How will Taylor Gold reply? How about two McTwists? (Description within the FIS code checklist: a “a forward-flipping bottom 540.”) That’s an 81.75.
Again to the Japanese contingent — Yuko Totsuta opens with a 1440 however isn’t completely clear, touchdown awkwardly on the lip of the pipe a few instances for a 62.00.
The youngest rider within the area, 16-year-old Valentino Guseli of Australia, slips into second place with a 75.75.
Subsequent up, the oldest rider within the area …
20:38
The halfpipe competitors is underway, and the USA’s Chase Josey reminds us that Shaun White and Taylor Gold aren’t the one hotshot Individuals right here. He will get a triple-double of kinds — three double corks, the final additionally a 1280.
That’s a 62.50.
20:26
The second USA-GB finish is extra sophisticated, with the USA getting a few rocks behind guard till one is taken out.
I’ve a “Protection Will Resume Shortly” slide that’s protecting me from seeing what Chris Plys is doing. Plys performed blended doubles as effectively.
The advert interruptions are somewhat ridiculous, however it’s time to modify to halfpipe, anyway
20:18
13 straight easy takeouts, and we’ve got a clean first finish between John Shuster (USA) and Bruce Mouat (GB).
Switzerland and the ROC additionally blanked their first finish, as did Sweden and Italy. The one group to attain to this point is China, up 1-0 over Denmark.
20:11
Time for curling, and my feed, the intro was interrupted by an advert.
Anyway, the USA and Crew GB are underway. Hammy McMillan put the primary shot into the rings, which is commonly a no-no for the primary shot of the primary finish. He guarded it along with his second shot, although, which appears efficient. It’s like a chess sport that transposed into a special opening. And John Landsteiner took it out along with his second shot, anyway.
The defending champion US group is 1-1. Crew GB received its opener in opposition to Italy.
Now we have one other advert. Good factor I can comply with the shot-by-shot feed.
On one other observe, how is Matt Hamilton almost 20 years youthful than I’m?
19:41
Welcome again to digital Beijing, coming to you reside from an undisclosed location close to our nation’s capital.
(That will be the capital of the USA. I’ll hand off to Australia later within the Nice World Guardian Relay.)
It’s Beau Dure right here, and I wished to make clear that I’m not the one who can’t look ahead to the boys’s 10,000m pace skating. I will probably be asleep at the moment. Or getting a bounce on Wordle.
I will probably be awake, nevertheless, to see …
USA-Britain males’s curling in 20 minutes
Shaun White’s final journey within the halfpipe, the place he, fellow American Taylor Gold and Australians Scotty James and Valentino Guseli will attempt to outpoint a strong Japanese group. That’s in 50 minutes.
Ester Ledecká’s quest for the ski-snowboard double-double and Mikaela Shiffrin’s quest to salvage one thing from these Video games within the super-G. That’s in two hours and 20 minutes.
We’ll even have the primary day of the aforementioned girls’s skeleton competitors and the primary interval — and possibly the primary 4 objectives or so — of the US girls’s quarterfinal hockey sport in opposition to the Czech Republic. Not quite a lot of parity in that sport.
Additionally, please e mail Beau or tweet @duresport with cat movies and your take in your favourite and least favourite advertisements. I’m greater than slightly uninterested in the one during which the daddy boasts about all of the cameras in his truck that can maintain his daughter and her boyfriends from … what, holding arms? Yeesh.
19:15
Arising right now
Occasions are all in native Beijing time. For Sydney it’s +3 hours, for London it’s -8 hours, for New York it’s -13 hours and San Diego is -16 hours.
9.05am and 2.05pm and 8.05pmCurling – simply take it as learn that there’s males’s and ladies’s curling all day lengthy daily now ?
9.30am Snowboard – there will probably be big curiosity within the males’s halfpipe with Shaun White on the lookout for yet one more gold in his final Olympics ?
9.30-11.00am and 8.20pm-9.55pm Skeleton – the morning sees two heats for the ladies, which is able to embrace Britain’s Pyeongchang bronze medallist Laura Deas. The night options the final two runs for the boys and the medals ?
11am Alpine snowboarding – Ester Ledecká makes an attempt to retain her girls’s Tremendous-G title for an historic double-double ?
12.10pm and 4.40pm and 9.10pmIce hockey – there are males’s preliminaries however the principle attraction is the US v Czech Republic within the girls’s play-off quarter-finals at 12.10pm. Canada’s girls face Sweden on the similar stage within the late session ?
3pm Cross-country snowboarding – the boys’s 15km basic?
4pm Pace skating – it’s the lengthy distance of the pace skating. The lads race over 10,000m and I can’t wait ?
5pm Biathlon – it’s the flip of the ladies to do the 7.5km dash ?
7pm–8.43pm Quick monitor – the session culminates within the girls’s 1,000 metres closing ?