On Tuesday at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Mikaela Shiffrin raced in the downhill, while Eileen Gu earned a silver medal in ski slopestyle and Anna Gasser won her second straight Olympic gold in snowboard big air.
As always, we have live updates of all the action:
Women’s short program
After much drama around Kamila Valieva’s doping case, the women’s short program got underway Tuesday. With training partner Nathan Chen and much of Team USA cheering her on, 2022 U.S. champion Mariah Bell fell on her opening triple combo but kept on smiling through her skate. Two-time U.S. champion Alysa Liu, the American woman with the best chance to podium, did not do a triple axel but skated cleanly in her Olympic debut. The 16-year-old beamed leaving the ice and is in eighth place. Karen Chen, the 2017 U.S. champion, fell again on the triple loop, the same jump she missed in the team event, where she…
