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The U.S. figure skating team, riding high in first place after Day 1 of the team event, stuttered a bit on Sunday. Disappointing performances by Karen Chen and Vincent Zhou led the United States to slip out of the top spot, as Russia's Kamila Valieva blew away the women's field. |
No surprise in ski jumping as Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi had a huge first jump to win the men's normal hill event. In speedskating, Nils van der Poel of Sweden, the master of longer distances, won the 5,000 meters and set an Olympic record. |
The United States is still awaiting its first gold medal of the Games, but that could certainly change on Monday. |
With the men's downhill delayed a day by high winds, there will now be a doubleheader: the men's downhill followed by the women's giant slalom and Mikaela Shiffrin's Beijing debut. The day could even bring two gold medals for the sport's power couple: Shiffrin and Aleks Kilde of Norway. |
In another good opportunity for the United States, Red Gerard could win the snowboard slopestyle. |
|  GOLD |  SILVER |  BRONZE | TOTAL |
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 | Russian Olympic Committee |
| 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |  | Norway |
| 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |  | Austria |
| 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |  | Italy |
| 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |  | Sweden |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |  | Germany |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |  | Netherlands |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
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