Team Sprint (Freestyle) — The Team Sprint event fields paired teams of two athletes each, and follows the interval-start format. Each of a team’s two skiers alternate in timed turns around the event’s 1,585-meter (approximately 1 mile) course, with the event’s final round consisting of more overall laps than the earlier, qualifying knockout round.
The United States packed a week’s worth of drama into a single winter day in Italy, turning Thursday in Milan Cortina into a rolling reel of gold-medal moments, near-misses, and clutch escapes. At one end of the Games,
Hilary Knight scored a late game-tying goal before Keller's heroics helped USA capture a third Olympic gold in women's hockey
This was the seventh gold medal match — and fifth in a row — between the two hockey powerhouses.
China's Zhongyan Ning upset American Jordan Stolz with an Olympic-record 1:41.98 in the men's speed skating 1,500-meter final Thursday in Milan.