U.S. captures gold in group determine skating occasion, Canada finishes fifth – Imperial Wire

The People have defended their determine skating crown.

Crew USA beat Japan to seize back-to-back gold medals within the determine skating group occasion on the Winter Olympics. Italy completed third to earn bronze, whereas Canada was unable to seize a medal after inserting fifth.

Led by Ilia Malinin, Amber Glenn, Madison Chock, Evan Bates, Alysa Liu, Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea, the U.S. earned 69 factors, beating out Japan by a single level whereas Italy completed with 60 factors and Canada had 54 factors.

In the long run, all of it got here right down to the boys’s free skate as Malinin pulled out his signature quad axel and landed a backflip on one leg. His program earned him 200.03 factors, which offered the U.S. with the utmost 10 factors, whereas Shun Sato of Japan had a 194.86 complete rating.

Canadian rising star Stephen Gogolev completed fourth within the males’s program with a 171.93 complete rating.

Determine skating on the Olympics rolls on Monday with the beginning of the ice dance competitors. The boys’s singles occasion begins Feb. 10 with the brief program and concludes on Feb. 13 with the free skate. The ladies’s singles opens Feb. 17 with the brief program and wraps Feb. 19 with the free skate.