Gold for Canadian ice hockey players, silver for United States

Gold for Canadian ice hockey players, silver for United States

The Canadian ice hockey players won a gold medal in the final against the United States on Thursday morning. Canada was 3-2 too strong for the American team, who had the previous Olympic gold in their hands.

In the first period, the Canadian women took a 2-0 lead, after goals from Sarah Nurse after almost 8 minutes and Marie-Philip Poulin after 15 minutes. In the second period, Poulin also made it 3-0. Seven minutes later, in the 37th minute, Hilary Knight scored the first American goal. An American goal in the last minute of Amanda Kessel’s third period couldn’t make the difference anymore.

With their win, the Canadian ice hockey players regain Olympic gold. Since women’s ice hockey became a part of the 1998 Winter Olympics, Canada has won all but two gold medals. Canada only won silver in Nagano in Japan in 1998 and in the Games of South Korea Pyeongchang in 2018. Gold went to the United States in those years.

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The Netherlands starts day 13 in sixth place in the medal ranking

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In this blog beats NRC Thursday, the thirteenth day of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Yesterday a medal was added for the Netherlands: Suzanne Schulting took bronze in the 1,500 meters short track.

This Thursday, among other things, the 1,000-meter long track speed skating for women is on the program with again medal opportunities for TeamNL. These Dutchmen are in action today: