Olympics information, reside updates: Alysa Liu in third place, Amber Glenn in thirteenth after quick program in girls’s determine skating

Of Crew USA’s “Blade Angels,” solely reigning world champion Alysa Liu is within the high 5 of the ladies’s singles standings after the quick program portion of the occasion.

She’s third, behind Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai. Crew Japan additionally occupies fourth place, because of Mone Chiba.

Isabeau Levito is in eighth, and Amber Glenn — who heartbreakingly erred on a triple loop after beginning her program with a triple axel — is thirteenth.

Right here’s the highest eight:

2. Kaori Sakamoto (Japan): 77.23

4. Mone Chiba (Japan): 74.00

5. Adeliia Petrosian (AIN): 72.89

6. Anastasiia Gubanova (Georgia): 71.77

7. Loena Hendrickx (Belgium): 70.93

8. Isabeau Levito (USA): 70.84

Amber Glenn set the tone with a triple axel that set the stage for a triple flip and triple toe mixture.

However her triple loop in the midst of her quick program unraveled. That value her.

Sadly, as a result of she was one rotation quick on that loop, she misplaced as many as seven factors.

She earned 67.39 and presently ranks twelfth within the particular person occasion.

Glenn was visibly upset after that one factor disrupted an in any other case unbelievable program.

Kaori Sakamoto executed a triple lutz early in her quick program, adopted by a flying camel spin.

The spotlight was her triple flip and triple toe mixture. However because the music constructed to a crescendo, so did the applause.

Sakamoto is a three-time Olympic medalist. This time, she may win gold.

Sakamoto scored a 77.23, taking second place behind teammate Ami Nakai. Alysa Liu of Crew USA is now in third.

Subsequent up was Isabeau Levito, who paired a triple flip with a triple toe to start out her quick program.

Skating to the music of Sophia Loren, an Italian movie legend, Levito glided throughout the ice whereas representing her heritage and, particularly, her Milanese roots.

Whereas she was penalized for her execution at occasions, together with for a slight below rotation on a triple loop, Levito’s artistry was on show, and it helped her earn 70.84 factors.

Levito is now in fifth place.

Alysa Liu began her quick program with a chic triple flip. Then she landed a double axel.

However she saved her finest for the second half of her skate.

That’s when she pulled off her triple lutz and triple loop mixture that wowed.

Joyful but sleek, Liu placed on a present and acquired a rating of 76.59, good for second place.

She trails solely Japan’s Ami Nakai, who showcased a triple axel in her efficiency earlier.

Alysa Liu, Isabeau Levito and Amber Glenn (in that order) are about to skate within the girls’s singles.

Robust scores of their quick packages will set them up for a medal push within the free skate.

The U.S. group of Frank Del Duca and Joshua Williamson entered its last run within the two-man bobsled in fourth place after three of 4 runs. It put down its finest run of the competitors with a 55.34 to stay in competition with three German sleds remaining.

However the Germans did not cede their floor and completed 1-2-3 on the rostrum. Johannes Lochner and Georg Fleischhauer received gold (3:39.70), Francesco Friedrich and Alexander Schüller took silver (3:41.04) and Adam Ammour and Alexander Schaller secured bronze (3:41.52).

Del Duca and Williamson completed simply off the rostrum in fourth place (3:41.96), 2.26 seconds of the gold-medal tempo and .44 seconds off the rostrum.

Japan’s Ami Nakai, simply 17 years outdated, is now in first place after a head-turning quick program that featured a triple axel.

She earned 78.71 factors. That was not solely a private finest, but it surely was additionally the second-highest rating of the season.

Nakai overtook Russia’s Adeliia Petrosian, who’s competing as a impartial athlete.

Italy skip Joël Retornaz stored their playoff hopes alive by main the hosts to a giant win over the U.S. on Tuesday.

With losses to China and Italy, the U.S. sits 4-4 with their last match on Wednesday in opposition to Nice Britain.

Russia’s Adeliia Petrosian, competing as a impartial athlete, stays first within the girls’s determine skating particular person occasion after three teams of quick packages are within the books:

1. Certified – Adeliia Petrosian (AIN) — 72.89

2. Q – Lee Haein (KOR) — 70.07

3. Q – Sofia Samodelkina (KAZ) — 68.47

4. Q – Shin Jia (KOR) — 65.66

5. Q – Iida Karhunen (FIN) — 65.06

6. Q – Julia Sauter (ROU) — 63.13

7. Q – Olga Mikutina (AUT) — 61.72

8. Q – Ekaterina Kurakova (POL) — 60.14

9. Q – Zhang Ruiyang (CHN) — 59.38

10. Q – Kimmy Repond (SUI) — 59.20

11. Q – Mariia Seniuk (ISR) — 58.61

12. Q – Livia Kaiser (SUI) — 55.69

13. Lorine Schild (FRA) — 55.63

14. Viktoriia Safonova (AIN) — 54.57

15. Meda Variakojytė (LTU) — 53.86

16. Alexandra Feigin (BUL) — 53.42

17. Kristen Spours (GBR) — 45.54

The primary of Crew USA’s trio — Alysa Liu — is slated to skate in lower than an hour.

Skip Danny Casper rescued some extent, however the U.S. faces a two-point deficit heading into the tenth and last.

Italy may have the hammer as they appear to complete off the People.

The rocks aren’t cooperating for Danny Casper’s crew as a mistake within the eighth finish opened the door for Italy to place two extra factors on the board.

Italy leads 7-4 as we head to the ninth finish.

The large air males’s last noticed large drama on Tuesday earlier than Norway’s Tormod Frostad secured gold, simply forward of U.S. silver medalist Mac Forehand.

Frostad took management of first place early and seemed to be cruising to gold after posting the very best rating in every of the primary two rounds. In a contest the place the 2 better of three runs depend, his mixed rating of 192.25 from these rounds stood an opportunity to depend for gold.

However Forehand, who entered the ultimate spherical in second place, was overtaken by Austria’s Matej Svancer within the third spherical and entered his last bounce in bronze medal place. He wanted a rating of 96.25 to retake silver.

As a substitute, he laid down a 98.25 for the very best rating but of the Video games with a bounce that’s by no means been accomplished in competitors. It was ok to take over first place.

Skip Danny Casper took benefit of an Italy error and gained again two factors for the U.S.

After seven ends, Italy stays on high 5-4.

After two teams of skaters, Russia’s Adeliia Petrosian, competing as a impartial athlete, remains to be within the lead, though it’s essential to notice that extra skaters within the later teams are anticipated to attain north of 70 as properly.

1. Certified – Adeliia Petrosian (AIN) — 72.89

2. Q – Iida Karhunen (FIN) — 65.06

3. Q – Julia Sauter (ROU) — 63.13

4. Q – Olga Mikutina (AUT) — 61.72

5. Q – Zhang Ruiyang (CHN) — 59.38

6. Q – Mariia Seniuk (ISR) — 58.61

7. Livia Kaiser (SUI) — 55.69

8. Viktoriia Safonova (AIN) — 54.57

9. Meda Variakojyte (LTU) — 53.86

10. Alexandra Feigin (BUL) — 53.42

11. Kristen Spours (GBR) — 45.54

In whole, 29 skaters are taking part within the girls’s particular person occasion. The 24 of them who rating the very best within the quick program will qualify for Thursday’s free skate, which can decide who wins medals in girls’s singles.

All three of the American girls are within the fifth and last group Tuesday.

As a result of the American girls are within the fifth and last group of Tuesday’s quick program, they aren’t scheduled to skate till previous 4 p.m. ET.

Alysa Liu will go first within the fifth group. She’s slated to carry out at 4:20 p.m. ET.

She’ll be adopted by Isabeau Levito at 4:27 p.m. ET.

In the meantime, Amber Glenn would be the second-to-last skater to take the ice on Tuesday. She’s because of compete at 4:46 p.m. ET.

Norway’s Tormod Frostad laid down the very best rating of the competitors with a 97 on his second run and is in charge of the gold medal with a complete rating of 192.25. He’s now posted the very best rating in every spherical.

One of the best two of three runs depend for medal place, and Frostad’s present rating may land him on high of the rostrum.

USA’s Mac Forehand stays his high competitors with a 95.00 in every of his first two runs and is in silver-medal place with a complete rating of 190.00. Right here’s his opening-round 95.00:

After the U.S. group over-curled their throw on their last shot, the Italians took benefit.

Skip Joël Retornaz scored a 3 with the hammer as Italy now leads 5-2 after six ends.