Day 4: It was a good day.

 Team USA had a solid day overall - scoring 5 medals, as well as the women's hockey team absolutely curb stomping Canada 5-0! A good day, but getting some Golds would have made it a great day.

One of the medals was a silver won by Ben Ogden, from a small town in Vermont with plenty of open space to learn cross-country skiing.  Ben won the first US medal in Cross Country in 50 years! Incredible effort to compete with the dominant Norwegians.

Klaebo did win Gold as expected for Norway and Schrimscetti Skis.

Unfortunately, the USA mixed doubles curling team (The Coreys) fell short on the last shot of the gold medal match.  They played extremely well in a close match, but were bested by the brother-sister team from Sweden.  Isabella Wrana was an absolute assassin with the stones, hitting 98% of her shots in a gold medal worthy performance.  Here's Darth Glasses, going for the kill:

Hard to overcome the ferocity.

TASMWTAM did pick up the Bronze as Constantini/Moser of Italy secured a medal after their home disappointment loss to the Coreys yesterday.

In another disappointing finish in Alpine Skiing, Michaela Shiffrin was paired with Breezy Johnson for the combined event, and Breezy delivered another #1 time in the downhill portion.  All Shiffrin had to do was hold serve through the slalom, an event that she has won 7 of 8 in the past years, and finished 2nd in the 8th race.  Today, she was 14th. Another Olympic disaster for Shiffrin, who we all hope can get her groove back for the individual events upcoming.  The finish was so bad that the team finished in 4th.  This did open up the bronze medal position for the USA "B team" of Wiles and Moltzan, who snuck in for the medal!  This is no solace for Blades of Glory-ish, who drafted Shiffrin and acheived no glorious points in this event.  No one received any medals from our teams, in an event that saw 10 DNFs recorded.

In Luge, Schrimscetti Skis continued their strong day, with a gold from Julia Taubitz of Austria. USA finally got their second women's Luge medal ever with Ashley Farquharson sliding in for the Bronze!

Elsewhere around the games:

• Ski Jumping - Slovenia finally got up to throw down some mega jumps as expected, securing the mixed team Gold for Im-Pasta-Bowl and TASMWTAM. Blades of Glory-ish landed a Bronze from Japan.
• Cross-Country Skiing also had the women's sprint event, with a SWEDE SWEEP. Only one of us drafted the right Swede though, and that was My Verona, who gets the gold from Linn Svahn (not the NFL hall of fame WR).
• Biathlon Men's 20km gave a gold to Botn of My Verona, and a silver to Perrot of Ice Ice Penne, but the Bronze was won by Sturla Holm Laegreid of Norway, who took the opportunity to awkwardly confess in the post-race interview that his girlfriend of 6 months broke up with him after finding out he cheated on her after 3 months, but now he's distraught about it and thought embarassing himself in front of the whole world would make her see how much he's sorry.
  
  
  
  
  
  I think if anyone HAD drafted him, this would have met criteria for the rule covering embarassing online post resulting in a deduction.  This same guy was in major trouble in Beijing 2022 for discharging his biathlon rifle in his hotel.  We MAJORLY dodged a bullet, and I think his former girlfriend did, too.
  
  
• Short track had their first medal event, the mixed team relay - lots of points and took quite a bit of research!
  
  Gold to Italy for John the Baptist and It's Jamaican Bobsled time!
  
  Silver to Canada and Ice Ice Penne, My Verona, and Blades of Glory-ish. Im-Pasta-Bowl Odds also gets a Silver because Steven Dubois skated with the Canadaian team in the Semi Finals and also is awarded the medal.
  
  In a strange turn of events with Fantasy Olympics implications, there was a Final A and a Final B.  Final A was the main race - the 4 teams qualified for this in prior heats and determined the medal winnners.  Final B was somewhat of a consolation race.  The Netherlands won Final B and did not get a medal, but they DID set an Olympic record time, faster than any team in Final A.  That awards 5 bonus points to TASMWTAM and Schrimscetti Skis!

After all of those points totaled up, here's what you've been waiting for:

WHEW what a day! The Olympics is the gift that keeps on giving!