| XXIII Olympic Winter Games |
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| Venue: Pyeongchang, South Korea Dates: 9-25 February |
| Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, Red Button, Connected TVs, BBC Sport website and mobile app. Full coverage times |
The United States beat Canada 3-2 in a sudden-death shootout to win Winter Olympics gold in the women’s ice hockey for the first time in 20 years.
The scores were level at 2-2 after five penalty shots each, but USA’s Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson scored past Shannon Szabados before Maddie Rooney saved from Canada’s Meghan Agosta.
Canada won gold at the previous four Olympics, including victories over USA in the 2002, 2010 and 2014 finals.
The game had ended 2-2 after overtime.
Hillary Knight opened the scoring for USA but Haley Irwin and Marie-Philip Poulin put Canada ahead before Monique Lamoureux-Morando took the match into overtime in Pyeongchang.
USA beat Canada in the first women’s ice hockey Winter Olympic final in 1998.
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- Day-by-day guide to what’s on
- Full schedule and results
New Zealand break medal ‘curse’
Medals are like buses – you wait 26 years for one and then two come along on the same day.
That was the case for New Zealand, as Zoi Sadowski-Synnott claimed women’s big air bronze before Nico Porteous won bronze in the men’s ski halfpipe.
Porteous, aged 16 years and 91 days, is the youngest Kiwi to win an Olympic medal, while Sadowski-Synnoty is the second youngest at 16 years and 353 days.
Annelise Coberger won New Zealand’s only previous Winter Olympic medal – silver in women’s alpine skiing in 1992.
“She’s regarded as one of the all-time great winter sports athletes of New Zealand, so we all see that as an inspiration,” Porteous said.
“I would say we broke the curse today. I was extremely nervous – I actually vomited three times this morning.”
What happened on day 13?
- America’s David Wise holds nerve to defend his ski halfpipe title
- Anna Gasser’s last jump snatches big air gold for Austria
- Sweden’s Andre Myhrer wins surprise men’s slalom gold
- Lindsey Vonn fails to finish final Olympic race as Michelle Gisin wins women’s alpine
Medals up for grabs in Pyeongchang
- Nordic combined – men’s team large hill (07:30-08:10) and team 4x5km (10:20-11:20)
- 11:15-12:45: Biathlon – women’s 4x6km relay
- 11:18-11:23: Short track speed skating – men’s 500m final
- 11:30-11:47: Short track speed skating – women’s 1,000m final
- 12:03-12:16: Short track speed skating – men’s 5,000m relay final
Other news
- Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, the Norewegian cross-country skier who won his third gold medal in Pyeongchang on Wednesday, is skipping Saturday’s 50km race to head home.
- South Korea’s women curlers have become “accidental superstars” in Pyeongchang by reaching the semi-finals.
