Nick Goepper, Alex Hall, and Colby Stevenson threw down in the men's freeski slopestyle qualifiers to earn their spot in among the 12 men who have advanced to finals on Wednesday, Feb. 16. 

Goepper qualified in third after throwing a switch double misty1260 on the first jump, followed by a double cork 1080 on the quarterpipe jump, into a double cork 1440 for his final hit. Goepper will look to earn his third slopestyle medal, improving on a bronze in Sochi 2014 and a silver in PyeongChang in 2018.

“I’m having a really good time, I’m more relaxed than I was eight years ago, I just think that comes with experience and age, so I’m looking forward to, who knows, doing another one in a few years," he said.

Alex Hall qualified in fifth. His biggest hit of the comp was a switch butter 720 to bounce switch cork 540 japan grab on the second jump, a feature that has gone virtually untouched by other riders throughout the freeski and snowboard slopestyle series.

“I’m always looking for something creative, something that I know will bring me joy, so if I can do that in competition skiing and in a run like this on a big stage like at the Olympics, then it’s the cherry on top,” Hall said about his performance.

Colby Stevenson, who qualified right behind Hall in sixth, will make his Olympic slopestyle debut. In 2021 he earned a World Championship silver in the event.

STARTLIST
Men's slopestyle finals

HOW TO WATCH
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Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022
8:30 p.m. Freestyle – Men's Slopestyle Final – Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou, CHN, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, USA Network

Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022
12:05 a.m. Freestyle Skiing - Men’s Slopestyle Final, Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou, CHN, NBC Broadcast
6:00 a.m. Freestyle Skiing – Men's Aerials Finals, Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou, CHN,  Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com
12:00 p.m. Freestyle Skiing – Men's Aerials Finals, Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou, CHN, USA Network
8:00 p.m. Freestyle Skiing – Men's Aerials, Men's Slopestyle, Women's Halfpipe Qualifying, Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou, CHN, NBC Broadcast
8:30 p.m. Freestyle Skiing – Women's Halfpipe Qualifying, Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou, CHN, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, USA Network
10:30 p.m. Women's Ski Cross Qualifying, USA Network, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com
11:30 p.m. Men's Halfpipe Qualifying, Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou, CHN, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, USA Network

Sport-specific broadcast and streaming schedules are available below:

• Alpine
• Cross Country
• Freeski
• Freestyle
• Ski Jumping
• Nordic Combined
• Snowboard

Broadcast and streaming schedules are updated on a daily basis throughout the season.

In the men's snowboard big air final on Tuesday, Feb. 15, Red Gerard earned the top finish for the U.S. men in fifth, followed by Chris Corning in seventh. The competition was heavy. and the boys managed to hold on to two top 10 finishes despite it all. China's Yiming Su took home gold, followed by Norway's Mons Roisland with silver, and Canada's Max Parrot with bronze.

Gerard, who prefers slopestyle, came into the comp knowing to fight for a podium, he'd have to throw 18s and 19s, something he wasn't feeling great about on Monday. Instead, he chose to throw something he knows, and see how they scored. He opened big air with a backside triple cork 1620, and nailed a switch backside triple cork on his third run to move him into bronze-medal position for a brief moment.

At the end of the day he'll happily take fifth, he said.

"Like I said before I really really wanted to get on the podium at slopestyle," Gerard said after the conclusion of the big air comp. "It took a few days to recover from that, and I'm probably still not fully recovered from it. But all and all I made two finals at the Olympics and came here and did what I wanted. I was consistent, I landed runs, and I had a great time with Team USA, those guys are my best friends. whether it was us hanging out in the village playing cards, or us snowboarding together, that's something that you get at the Olympics that you don't get anywhere else."

Corning, who threw a huge backside quad cork 1800 on the first jump, ended the day a bit farther down the rankings than he had hoped. His first trick earned him a score of 92, but he couldn't top it in his second and third go.

"I had a really rough practice, I wasn't able to focus and do what I wanted to do in practice. And the last time I tried to do (a back quad 18) I was 0 for 3. So to be able to put another one down at this awesome jump, I was super stoked." 

Hailey Langland finished 12th in the women's snowboard big air final. Her first two runs, she threw a cab 1080 Indy but wasn't able to land either trick.

“Ordinarily I wouldn’t have tried the cab 10, because I’m really scared of that trick, but it’s almost like it wasn’t just for me, it was for everyone on my team,” Langland said. “I’m really, really proud that I got to try it a couple times, and I really am looking forward to the next contest to try and put one down.”

Austria's Anna Gasser took gold, followed by New Zealand's Zoi Synott Sadowski with silver, and Japan's Kokomo Murase with bronze.

RESULTS
Men's big air final
Women's big air final
 

Maggie Voisin represented the women's freeski slopestyle team with poise on Tuesday, Feb. 15, finishing fifth overall in a heavy women's competition where gold and silver medals were separated by only 0.33 points. Switzerland's Mathilde Gremaud came out on top, followed by China's Eileen Gu. Estonia's Kelly Sildaru finished third with an 82.06. 

"A fifth place among all these incredible women is a really great result," said Voisin . It was going to be tough to crack the top three that's for sure, so I'm really proud of myself and to be amongst all these amazing women pushing the sport."

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is Voisin's third Olympic appearance. She's only 23, and a veteran of the women's team. Despite her age, Voisin has been through hell and back to make it to her third games, after losing her brother to suicide a little over a year ago. She's been close to the Olympic podium before, and got a little taste of it on Tuesday when she waited for the rest of the field to lay down their third and final runs. She says she'll keep fighting to be on the Olympic podium until her body quits on her, whenever that may be.

"I've been through so much in the last four years to just even be at the Olympics to say the least," she said. "So of course, sitting in third for a minute thinking, 'oh man, can I hold on?' was kind of a crazy feeling. But at the end of the day, I have no regrets."

Halfpipe is the final competition on the women's freeski docket. Qualifying will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 16.

RESULTS
Women's slopestyle finals

HOW TO WATCH
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Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022
2:35 a.m. West Coast Encore - Women’s Aerials Final (freestyle), Women’s Big Air Final (snowboarding), Women’s Downhill (alpine), Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com
6 a.m. Freestyle – Men's Aerials Qualifying – Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou, CHN, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com
1 p.m. Freestyle – Men's Aerials Qualifying – Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou, CHN, USA Network
8:30 p.m. Freestyle – Men's Slopestyle Final – Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou, CHN, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, USA Network

Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022
12:05 a.m. Freestyle Skiing - Men’s Slopestyle Final, Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou, CHN, NBC Broadcast
6:00 a.m. Freestyle Skiing – Men's Aerials Finals, Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou, CHN,  Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com
12:00 p.m. Freestyle Skiing – Men's Aerials Finals, Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou, CHN, USA Network
8:00 p.m. Freestyle Skiing – Men's Aerials, Men's Slopestyle, Women's Halfpipe Qualifying, Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou, CHN, NBC Broadcast
8:30 p.m. Freestyle Skiing – Women's Halfpipe Qualifying, Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou, CHN, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, USA Network
10:30 p.m. Women's Ski Cross Qualifying, USA Network, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com
11:30 p.m. Men's Halfpipe Qualifying, Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou, CHN, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, USA Network

Sport-specific broadcast and streaming schedules are available below:

• Alpine
• Cross Country
• Freeski
• Freestyle
• Ski Jumping
• Nordic Combined
• Snowboard

Broadcast and streaming schedules are updated on a daily basis throughout the season.

Ashley Caldwell, Megan Nick, and Kaila Kuhn all moved forward from qualifiers to Final 1 of the women's aerials competition on Monday, Feb. 14., which led to Nick earning the bronze ahead of Caldwell in fourth. 17-year-old Kuhn ended the comp in 8th in her Olympic debut. Winter Vinecki finished 15th.

Competition piled up on Monday, Feb 14. for the women’s aerials team after an influx of snowy weather at Genting Snow Park delayed Sunday’s qualifiers. The pressure was on to show up and perform when qualifiers were pushed to take place before the final rounds. Athletes had two chances to qualify for finals, and if their best score landed them in the top 12, they would have another two opportunities to break into the top six and compete in Final 2 for an Olympic medal.

Nick managed to stay consistent in all five of her jumps throughout the evening to earn the first individual medal for a U.S. women’s aerialist since 1998 and a career-first Olympic medal for herself. 

“It’s taken a long time to get to this level of jumping. I’ve had a lot of ups and downs, so I’m taking in every moment and feeling grateful that I made it here and was able to compete the way I wanted to,” said Nick. “I don’t have triples so I knew it had to be a nice triple twisting double so I’m stoked I was able to do that.” 

In her best individual start, Caldwell advanced straight to finals, nailing a triple full in her first qualification run and earning her a score of 101.31. Then in Final 1, she threw a lay double full full that earned her a 103.92, and a triple full that earned 105.60, putting her the top seed heading into the medal round, where she would have one more opportunity to jump for her second gold medal of the Games

Unfortunately for Caldwell, she slapped back on the landing of her triple-twisting triple in Final 2, a trick she had nailed, not once, but twice, in Final 1.

“The Olympics are incredibly stressful, and we put a lot of heart into what we do,” said Caldwell after the conclusion of the comp. “I gave it my all and it didn’t quite work. But I’m so proud of Tao Tao (Mengtao Xu) and I’m so proud of Megan Nick and I’m so proud of Hanna Huskova. They’re incredible athletes, and there is always heartbreak amongst great success.”

Caldwell finished just off the podium in fourth, behind her teammate Nick, but that didn't stop her from joining the celebrations in the finish when the podium was named. Gold medalist Mengtao Xu, a close competitor and friend of Caldwell's, has been pushing triples in the sport alongside the 29-year-old American. Nick, who has viewed Caldwell as a role model throughout her career, finished in the top three in her Olympic debut.

"I respect what everyone does out here, I know how hard this is because I do it every single day. So I respect every single person out there and how hard they've worked and pushed. Why shouldn't I be excited at their success?" she added

It was really hard to watch Ashley Caldwell slap back because she’s been such a role model and she’s been jumping so well. And it was bittersweet to have her in fourth place.

RESULTS
Women's aerials qualification
Women's aerials final

Red Gerard, Chris Corning, and Hailey Langland have officially moved on to Tuesday, Feb. 15, Big Air finals in Beijing, China. 

Langland was the only athlete to move on from the U.S. team on the women’s side, squeaking into the final in 12th with a total of 127.50 points, only 0.25 points ahead of Switzerland’s Bianca Gisler. Jamie Anderson just missed the cut, finishing 15th with 119.75 points. Courtney Rummel also did not qualify, finishing in 17th. Slopestyle silver medalist, Julia Marino, did not start her first run after taking a hard fall in practice earlier this week. 

“This was a really heavy qualifier, and I thought after Annika (Morgan) landed her cab 9, I was for sure bumped out,” said Langland. “But I’m really stoked to have held on. At the very end (of the competition), I saw the scoreboard, and I was still in 12th, which was pretty shocking, but also so relieving at the same time because that means I get a second chance.”

Red Gerard qualified in third behind Canada’s Max Parrot and Japan’s Takeru Otsuka to advance. The 21-year-old scored a 75.50 on Run 1 with a switch backside triple cork 1620, followed by an 80.00 on Run 2 with a backside 1620. Gerard improved on his first trick on Run 3 for a 78.75 to total 158.75 overall after his third and final run.

Gerard is happy with the way he rode and glad to have stomped three runs but still feels a bit apprehensive about the judging following the inconsistent scores that appeared in slopestyle and halfpipe and again in big air.

“The past three contests for snowboarding with halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air, I just have never seen judging like it,” commented Gerard. “There were some tricks where people would get a 75, then someone would do the exact same trick and get an 81. Having a six-point difference is pretty incredible. Today wasn’t as bad as the slopestyle, I’d say, but it definitely has been a bit of a bummer. You work for years to get to this point and then to come here and have the judging not be correct, it’s not on you, it’s not on any of the riders.” 

“We’re on the world’s biggest stage right now, and for them to just take an extra 30 seconds, 40 seconds to rewatch each run if there is something that flags them, is well worth it, he added. “All I’m saying is no one is ever complaining waiting for their scores. It’s always nerve-racking, but I’ll take that over a misjudged run.” 

Gerard’s teammate, Chris Corning, also made his way into the final, bumping himself up to 10th after throwing a backside triple 1620 on his third and final run. Both Sean FitzSimons and Dusty Henricksen did not qualify for the final, finishing 17th and 21st, respectively.

Big air marks the final event for snowboarding in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
 

RESULTS
Women’s Big Air qualifiers
Men’s Big Air qualifiers

START LISTS
Women’s Big Air final
Men’s Big Air final

With a strong finishing kick, Kevin Bolger powered Team USA to ninth-place in the Men’s 4x10k Team Relay at the Kuyangshu Nordic Center, in Zhangjiakou, China, Sunday.

The Russian Olympic Committee team skied away from the field early in the 12-lap race on a cold, snowy day to win the gold with a time of 1:54:50. Norway’s Johannes Klaebo dropped Maurice Manicat on the final lap to secure the silver medal for the Norweigan team with a time of 1:55:57, while France took the bronze with a time of 1:56:07.

Luke Jager opened up the first 10k classic leg for Team USA. Jager was comfortably in the lead group until Russia’s Alexey Chervotkin dropped the hammer and blew up the lead group. 

“The course was really hard, the altitude was really hard, and 10k, it is a lot different than say 5 or 7.5k,” said Jager, who is competing in his first Olympic Winter Games and was a member of the two-time U.S. Junior Men’s World Championship winning relay team. “I learned a lot from it, and now I feel like I need to go home and train a lot more.”  

Jager tagged off to Scott Patterson in 13th, who picked off two places before tagging off to Gus Schumacher. “That was a hard race,” said Patterson, who found himself in no man's land for most of the second leg. “It would have been nice to have a group to ski with out there today.”

Patterson tagged off to Gus Schumacher, who skied a solid 10k. He tagged off to Bolger who picked off Canada’s Remi Drolet and then set his eyes on Japan’s Haruki Yamashita, catching him on the final climb into the finish arena, and easily putting 50 meters on him at the line.

Three races remain on the Cross Country program for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. The Classic Team Sprint takes place Wednesday, followed by the men’s 50k mass-start freestyle on Saturday, and the women’s 30k mass-start freestyle on Sunday, Feb. 20.

RESULTS
Men’s 4x10k Team Relay

HOW TO WATCH
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Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022
4:00 a.m. Cross Country Skiing - Team Sprint Classic Semifinals, Finals, Kuyangshu Nordic Center, Zhangjiakou, CHN, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com
6:00 a.m. Cross Country Skiing - Team Sprint Classic Semifinals, Finals, Kuyangshu Nordic Center, Zhangjiakou, CHN, USA Network

Sport-specific broadcast and streaming schedules are available below:

• Alpine
• Cross Country
• Freeski
• Freestyle
• Ski Jumping
• Nordic Combined
• Snowboard

Broadcast and streaming schedules are updated on a daily basis throughout the season.

River Radamus led the United States men in Saturday’s giant slalom, finishing just off the podium in fourth. Tommy Ford earned 12th, a monumental finish for his first race back post-injury in 2021. 

Saturday, Feb. 13, saw a large amount of snowfall in Yanqing, China, the most the region has seen in one day in eight years, and conveniently on the day of the men’s giant slalom during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. While other events were getting canceled, the men’s race was still on, but the athletes were ready to fight for Olympic gold no matter the weather. Ski racing is unpredictable, and the athletes never know what weather they’ll get on race day.

Radamus, who celebrated his 24th birthday just one day before his Olympic debut, sat in sixth, headed into the second run. Excessive snowfall on course tripped up many athletes on their hunt for the finish, but Radamus was able to hang on while carrying enough speed to grab a career-best result. 

“My approach this whole season has been process-based; focusing on the things I can control, making sure I take the steps to prepare, and knowing that this is an outdoor sport and things happen on race day, and I can’t control the outcome,” said Radamus. 

He’s come close to the podium results he craves before. In Alta Badia and Soelden, Radamus finished sixth, matching his World Cup career-best twice in the 21/22 season. But in the Olympics, he pushed hard enough to do even better. Sporting a zebra-stripe hairdo and 

“(Fourth is) tough to swallow right now, but I know in my heart that I did everything to prepare for today. But pressure is a privilege,” Radamus said, “and I tried to relish in it and execute as hard as I could. I didn’t want to back off, I wanted to make sure that I left everything I had on that course, and I did that and then some.”

 

 

 

 

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For Ford, competing in the Olympic Games is a milestone in his recovery. In 2021, a hard crash near the finish of the Adelboden giant slalom knocked him unconscious. He was subsequently airlifted off the course for evaluation. Soon after, doctors discovered he obtained a concussion, two torn ligaments in his right knee, a shredded meniscus, a broken tibia plateau, and a broken left wrist. He needed four surgeries to repair the damage. Headed into the Games, Ford was not sure he would be ready to compete, let alone finish two runs given the conditions.

Yet ever since, Ford has been working hard on the road to recovery and training diligently on snow back in the United States since November. So much so that getting back out in a giant slalom course on race day felt “like riding a bike.” 

"I'm just happy to be alive and skiing and out here,” said Ford. “There's part of me that knows I can win a medal here, but (now) it’s a different time and I've learned a lot in this past year.”

 

 

 

 

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Switzerland's Marco Odermatt walked away with giant slalom gold, followed by Slovenia's Zan Kranjec in silver, and France's Mathieu Faivre in bronze. Faivre finished 0.26 ahead of Radamus in fourth.

Ryan Cochran-Siegle, silver medalist in the men’s super-G, did not finish his first run. Luke Winters also did not finish his first run but has the men’s slalom to look forward to on Tuesday, Feb. 15. Winters will be the sole representative of the United States in Tuesday’s slalom.

RESULTS
Men’s giant slalom

HOW TO WATCH
*All times EST

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Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022
10:00 p.m. Alpine Skiing - Women's Downhill Training, National Alpine Skiing Center, Yanqing District, Beijing, CHN, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com

Monday, Feb. 14, 2022
10:00 p.m. Alpine Skiing - Women's Downhill, National Alpine Skiing Center, Yanqing District, Beijing, CHN, NBC Broadcast, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com

Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022
2:35 a.m. West Coast Encore - Women’s Aerials Final (freestyle), Women’s Big Air Final (snowboarding), Women’s Downhill (alpine), NBC Broadcast
9:15 p.m. Alpine Skiing - Men's Slalom, First Run, National Alpine Skiing Center, Yanqing District, Beijing, CHN, NBC Broadcast, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com

Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022
12:45 a.m. Alpine Skiing - Men's Event Slalom Run 2, National Alpine Skiing Center, Yanqing District, Beijing, CHN, NBC Broadcast, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com
2:35 a.m. West Coast Encore - Alpine Skiing - Men’s Slalom, National Alpine Skiing Center, Yanqing District, Beijing, CHN, NBC Broadcast
6:05 a.m. Primetime - Alpine Skiing - Men’s Slalom, National Alpine Skiing Center, Yanqing District, Beijing, CHN, NBC Broadcast
 

Sport-specific broadcast and streaming schedules are available below:

• Alpine
• Cross Country
• Freeski
• Freestyle
• Ski Jumping
• Nordic Combined
• Snowboard

Broadcast and streaming schedules are updated on a daily basis throughout the season.

Lindsey Jacobellis, 36, and Nick Baumgartner, 40, came out on top at the inaugural Mixed Snowboard Cross Team event, earning a gold medal for the United States.

Jacobellis battled with Italy's Michaela Moioli for the entire length of the course before taking over the lead at the final right-banked turn in Saturday's big final. Jacobellis was able to hang on to her lead through the final jump by a margin, barely finishing ahead of Moili and claiming victory for the United States.

 

 

 

 

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The gold is Baumgartner's first Olympic medal, making him the oldest snowboarder to ever win an Olympic medal. 

"I think for any athlete, getting pushed out by a younger generation really sucks," he said after the race. "So for us to go out there and put our stamp of approval on it and say "we're not done yet, we just got to work a little bit harder and we're willing to put that work in." So it's a good feeling."  

For Jacobellis, the victory is her second of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games after she won gold in the individual snowboard cross event earlier this week. In her first four Olympics, gold evaded her. Now, in her fifth, she's finally claimed the top spot, not once, but twice.

"It's a pretty incredible thing to be able to come and get a gold medal with a long-time teammate," said Jacobellis. "We've been through a lot together and we've seen each other through our ups and downs and our struggles so to be able to come together to work as a team and learn from each other on how the courses were changing with speed. I thought that we did great today with our execution and we had a lot of fun."

 

 

 

 

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Jake Vedder and Faye Guilini made it to the quarterfinal round but did not qualify for the small or big final. 

RESULTS
Mixed Snowboard Cross Team

HOW TO WATCH
*All Times EST

Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022
8:00 p.m. Snowboarding - Women's Big Air Qualifying, Secret Garden, CHN, NBCOlympics.com, Streaming Peacock

Monday, Feb. 14, 2022
12:30 a.m. Snowboarding - Men's Big Air Qualifying, Secret Garden, CHN, NBC Broadcast
1:30 a.m. Snowboarding - Women's Big Air Qualifying, Secret Garden, CHN, NBC Broadcast
1:30 a.m. Snowboarding - Men's Big Air Qualifying, Secret Garden, CHN, USA Network
4:30 a.m. Primetime Plus - Women's Slopestyle Final, Women's Big Air Qualifying (re-air), NBC Broadcast
4:00 p.m. Snowboarding - Men's Big Air Qualifying, Secret Garden, CHN, NBC Broadcast
8:30 p.m. Snowboarding - Women's Big Air Final, Secret Garden, CHN, NBC Broadcast
10:00 p.m. Alpine Skiing - Women's Downhill, National Alpine Skiing Center, Yanqing District, Beijing, CHN, NBC Broadcast, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com
10:00 p.m. Snowboarding - Men's Big Air Qualifying, Secret Garden, CHN, USA Network

Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022
12:00 a.m. Snowboarding - Men’s Big Air Final, Secret Garden, CHN, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com
12:05 a.m. Primetime - Men’s Snowboarding Big Air Final & Freeski Slopestyle Final, NBC Broadcast
2:35 a.m. West Coast Encore - Women’s Aerials Final (freestyle), Women’s Big Air Final (snowboarding), Women’s Downhill (alpine)

Novie McCabe may be the new kid on the team, but she skied like a wily veteran for Team USA in Saturday’s 4x5k women’s Team Relay at the Kuyangshu Nordic Center, in Zhangjiakou, China.

“It was so cool to be part of a team with three legends,” the 20-year-old McCabe said of her teammates Jessie Diggins, Rosie Brennan, and Hailey Swirbul. “I had a lot of fun doing it, even though I was extremely nervous beforehand.”

McCabe skied the third leg for Team USA and posted the sixth-fasted freestyle time, which was 10 seconds faster than Diggins’ fourth lap time, as Team USA finished sixth. The Russian Olympic Committee took the gold, with Germany winning a surprise silver, and Sweden taking the bronze.

“I’m really, really proud of this team,” Diggins said. “Every one of these girls went out and skied so hard...and we gave it everything we had. Some days that ends up with the result of your life, and some days it doesn’t. But either way, the only thing we can control is going out there and skiing as hard, and as smart as we can, and this team did that!”

Following the race, the team was surprised with an Athlete Moment, an opportunity to connect with friends and family back home in the U.S. on a big screen in the finish area.

“Some of my friends from high school, and also some of our former teammates - Holly Brooks and Sadie Bjornsen - they had a watch party with my boyfriend (Tyler Kornfield) in Alaska, so we got to wave and say hi to them,” Brennan said. 

As is customary on relay day, the team wears special relay socks. And, ironically, Bjornson had on a pair of relay socks at the watch party - she competed on the U.S. relay team at the World Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany, last season. 

“Honestly, I wouldn’t expect anything less from her,” Brennan said of Bjornsen. 

“We have been missing a pair,” Diggins added. “That explains a lot!”

Fun and games aside, the women have a few days of rest and recovery before Wednesday’s classic team sprint. Team USA will be announced on Tuesday for Wednesday’s event. Up next, the men compete in the 4x10k relay Sunday. Luke Jager and Scott Patterson will ski the classic first and second legs, with Gus Schumacher and Kevin Bolger skiing the freestyle third and fourth legs.

RESULTS
Women’s 4x5k Relay

Mikaela Shiffrin came back in Friday's super-G reset and ready to race, finishing ninth overall, 0.79 off of gold medalist Lara Gut-Behrami's pace. Austria's Mirjam Puchner grabbed the silver medal, while Switzerland's Michelle Gisin rounded out the podium with the bronze. 

The nerves built up from the past couple of days had not disappeared, but the feeling of getting back out on skis reminded her that not every day at the Beijing 2022 Olympics is going to feel like a bad day. As she wrote in her Instagram post after the event, "the girl who failed...could also fly."

"I feel more positive, and a little bit of relief after skiing the super G, to know that it’s not so difficult," she said. "Good skiing is good skiing. I feel a lot more optimistic right now."

Since her second DNF at the Winter Olympic Games, Shiffrin has received an outpouring of support from fans across the globe. And Shiffrin, ever-humble, does not feel like she deserves it. The sheer number of positive messages she's received has been "insane" she said, and there's not enough time in the day for her to fully express to each and every person how much their efforts to cheer her up means to her. 

"I would never have expected in this moment, severely underperforming in an Olympics, that humans can be so kind," she gushed. "It’s the most surprising thing of my Olympic experience. How kind people have been in the face of my failure. It is a failure, and I’m okay saying that. I’m sorry for it, but I was also trying, and I’m proud of that."

In her first competition back since she fractured her tallus bone in the second of two FIS Ski World Cup super-G races in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Bella Wright pulled out a 21st place finish in her Olympic debut.

"Honestly I didn't know what to expect (of my Olympic experience), but the snow is absolutely amazing, the hill is one of the coolest hills I've ever skied, and I'm loving it," Wright said after she cleared through the finish.

Keely Cashman finished 27th in her Olympic debut. Alix Wilkinson did not finish, but showed some promising skiing in the first two intervals and is OK.

The women kick off downhill training on Saturday, Feb. 12. Over the next couple of days, the athletes have the opportunity to train on the course before the competition gets underway on Tuesday, Feb. 15. The race will air on NBC Primetime at 10 p.m. EST on Monday, Feb. 14. 

RESULTS
Women's super-G

HOW TO WATCH
*All times EST

Friday, Feb. 11, 2022
8:00 p.m. Primetime – Alpine Skiing Women’s Downhill (Live) & Snowboarding Mixed Team Snowboardcross (Live), NBC Broadcast

10:00 p.m. Alpine Skiing – Women’s Downhill Training, National Alpine Skiing Center, Yanqing District, Beijing, CHN, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com

Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022
4:05 a.m. Mixed Team Snowboardcross Finals & Women’s Alpine Downhill Training (re-air), NBC Broadcast

9:15 p.m. Alpine Skiing - Men's Giant Slalom, First Run, National Alpine Skiing Center, Yanqing District, Beijing, CHN, NBC Broadcast, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com

11:00 p.m. Alpine Skiing - Women's Downhill Training, National Alpine Skiing Center, Yanqing District, Beijing, CHN, USA Network

11:30 p.m. Alpine Skiing - Men's Giant Slalom - First Run, Freeski - Women’s Slopestyle Qualifying, Ski Jumping - Men’s Large Hill Final, NBC Broadcast

Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022
12:45 a.m. Alpine Skiing - Men's Giant Slalom, Run 2, National Alpine Skiing Center, Yanqing District, Beijing, CHN, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com

5:30 a.m. Primetime - Men's Giant Slalom, Yanqing District, Beijing, CHN, NBC Broadcast

10:00 p.m. Alpine Skiing - Women's Downhill Training, National Alpine Skiing Center, Yanqing District, Beijing, CHN, Streaming Peacock, NBCOlympics.com