Olympics news, live updates: Jordan Stolz wins second gold and breaks Olympic record, Team USA takes on Denmark

Jordan Stolz won his second gold medal of the Milan Cortina Olympics with a victory in Saturday’s men’s 500m.

The 21-year-old Wisconsin native set an Olympic record with a time of 33.77, edging Jenning de Boo (33.88) of the Netherlands, who finished up with a silver medal.

Stolz is now halfway to securing the most speedskating gold medals at one Olympics since fellow Wisconsin native Eric Heiden won a mind-blowing five at the 1980 Lake Placid Games. Still remaining for Stolz are the 1,500m on Thursday and the chaotic, unpredictable mass start event two days later.

The US men’s curling team improved to 2-2 with an 8-6 win over Germany on Saturday.

The Americans stormed out to a big, early lead with a four in the first end. That advantage increased to 6-2 after the fourth end, but the Germans slowly crawled back with four points over the next four ends to cut the US lead to one.

Skip Danny Casper added one in the ninth end and then prevented the Germans from having a chance to tie in the 10th.

The US men continue round-robin play on Sunday with matches against Sweden (3:05 am ET) and Norway (1:05 ​​pm ET).

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen became the first South American to win a Winter Olympics medal after he earned gold during Saturday’s men’s giant slalom.

The 25-year-old Pinheiro Braathen, who is ranked second in the world in slalom and giant slalom, recorded a combined time of 2:25.00, 0.58 better than 2022 gold medalist Marco Odermatt to win the event.

The 29-year-old Kauf picked up her third career Olympic silver medal on Saturday in the duo moguls, adding to silver won on Wednesday in the moguls competition and the 2022 Beijing Games.

Fellow American Liz Lemley took home bronze in the duo moguls, three days after securing her first career gold medal.

Swayman, who plays for the Boston Bruins, has started 37 games this season and recorded 22 wins, one shutout, a 2.92 goals against average, and a .903 save percentage.

Connor Hellebuyck got the start in the first game for the US, a 5-1 win over Latvia.

The Americans finish up round-robin play on Sunday against Germany.

American Jaelin Kauf added a second silver medal to her Olympic haul in a dramatic women’s dual moguls event, while individual moguls gold medalist Elizabeth Lemley added a bronze.

Kauf lost the gold medal final to Australia’s Jakara Anthony, the pre-Olympic favorite who earned revenge after her final run in individual moguls went awry earlier this week. Kauf was working on a gold-medal run until a tiny bobble midway down the course caused his left ski to slip out for a split second. That ultimately allowed the chasing Anthony to catch up, win on time and on style.

Dual moguls, a new event at the Olympics this year, match skiers in a series of head-to-head races where they advance in a single elimination bracket until a winner emerges. Time isn’t the only factor, however, as judges also score turns and tricks just as they would in the regular moguls format.

Things got wild in the semi-finals. Facing France’s Perrine Laffont, Kauf advanced on a technicality as both skiers crashed. But Laffont, who got stuck trying to keep her balance after landing her first trick, had to ski the wrong way around a gate, which essentially resulted in a disqualification.

It’s reached a point where the US isn’t just playing for an Olympic gold medal anymore. The Americans are two victories away from staking their claim as the best women’s hockey team their country has ever produced.

Outshooting Italy 51-6 was the most savage example yet of the team’s tournament-long dominance. The Americans have steamrolled to the semifinals by outscoring their first five opponents 26-1 and outshooting them 225-72.

In one of the most stunning collapses in Olympic figure skating history, Ilia Malinin failed to claim gold, faltering through her free skate routine to fall from a near-certain gold medal all the way to eighth place.

Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov claimed gold, while Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama took silver and Japan’s Shun Sato won bronze.

And just like that, it’s 4-0 Team USA!

We’re a few minutes into the second period of this quarterfinal match.