Day 9: Halfway Home

 We're over halfway through the 2026 Winter Olympics! Team events are moving along and there's lots of earning potential if you invested in Team USA.  The men's and women's hockey teams are rolling along, and the men's and women's curling teams are defying expectations and look like strong contenders for a medal at this point.  With Canada mentally struggling among the stone touching scandal, Team USA is finding their groove, both winning in clutch final points today. Those 20 point medals could swing the standings!

Also, these uniforms are the absolute best - so clean.

Around the Games:

• Biathlon - no medals awarded for our teams in the men's event but sad girlfriend guy medaled AGAIN getting a silver. 
  Women's 10km pursuit saw THREE medals - Vittozzi gets GOLD for John the Baptist, Kirkeeide gets SILVER for It's Jamaican Bobsled Time!, and Minkkinen gets BRONZE for TASMWTAM
  
  
• Freestyle Skiing - Mikael Kingsbury cruised to Gold in the Dual Moguls final and gets the points for Ice Ice Penne
  
  
• Cross-Country - Men's Team Sprint - GOLD to Klaebo, Hedegart, and Nyenget of Schrimscetti, Blades of Glory-ish, and TASMWTAM. Federico Pelligrino with a Bronze for John the Baptist.
  
  
• Alpine Skiing - Giant Slalom - Frederica Brignone comes out on top again with another GOLD for It's Jamaican Bobsled Time! Mikaela Shiffrin comes up short again at the Olympics, in an event she has dominated time after time.  Disappointment for Blades of Glory-ish.
  
  
• Snowboard - Snowboardcross had their team event, It's Jamaican Bobsled Time is dancing again with a Gold medal from Charlotte Banks of Great Britain! Im-Pasta-Bowl Odds and My Verona had the Australian teammates and favorites, but a crash wiped out their chance and they finished 4th off the podium
  
  
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• Long-Track Speed Skating - Double medals in the 500 for Netherlands again, but flipped this time from the 1000 - Femke Kok of Ice Ice Penne gets GOLD AND an Olympic Record, Jutta Leerdam of Im-Pasta-Bowl Odds the Silver, and Miho Takagi of Schrimscetti Skis gets another Bronze.
  
  
• Skeleton Mixed Team Event - The GBR pair of Steocker and Weston scored a GOLD medal for Ice Ice Penne and Schrimscetti Skis - the rich get richer! Axel Jungk of My Verona gets silver, Pfeifer and Grotheer get Bronze for Blades of Glory-ish and Im-Pasta-Bowl Odds.
  
  
• Ski Jumping - Nika Prevc from Slovenia completes the one of each medal challenge and gets a Bronze for Im-Pasta-Bowl Odds.

Here's the scoreboard after Sunday!  We have a TIE for first place! Also. after a strong day, It's Jamaican Bobsled Time is right on the edge of medal contention. 

One week to go - who will claim the podium?