Olympics Edition — Day 5: Anyone know where we can find a Nutella keg?
From The GIST (hi@thegistsports.com)
Happy hump day!
As if we needed an excuse to grab a little treat, the Olympic Nutella keg and viral chocolate lava cake (chocolate muffins are so 2024) have us drooling. Embracing the sugar rush as we dig into all the deliciousness from Milano Cortina.
Country | 🥇 | 🥈 | 🥉 | Total |
| 🇳🇴 Norway | 6 | 2 | 4 | 12 |
| 🇨🇭 Switzerland | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 🇩🇪 Germany | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 🇸🇪 Sweden | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 🇺🇲 USA (5th) | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
🏒 Team USA women’s hockey dominated Canada 5–0 in yesterday’s rivalry group-stage showdown, a resounding victory that featured defensewoman Laila Edwards’ historic first goal of the Games and an assist by captain Hilary Knight, clinching her the all-time U.S. Olympic points record.
- What’s more, the shutout also marked the first time the red, white, and blue’s archrival Canadians were ever blanked in Olympic competition. What a way to clinch the top playoff seed.
⛸️ American Ilia “Quad God” Malinin leads the men’s individual figure skating competition following yesterday’s short program and boasts a large lead over Japanese star Yuma Kagiyama, who beat Malinin head-to-head in Saturday’s team event.
- Malinin notably still has not performed his signature quad axel, the most difficult jump in the sport, in Milan. Perhaps he’s saving it for Friday’s podium-deciding free skate.
🥈🥌 Mixed doubles curlers and fan favorites Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse won the U.S.’ first-ever medal in the event yesterday, earning silver after a narrow 6–5 loss to Sweden. Thiesse is now the first American woman to medal in curling — making Duluth and beyond proud.
⛷️ Top-ranked American skiers Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson missed the podium in yesterday’s debut alpine team combined event, but the red, white, and blue still walked away with a bronze medal courtesy of Jackie Wiles and Paula Moltzan.
- Johnson finished first in the downhill portion of the race, but Shiffrin landed 15th out of 18 slalom competitors despite the event being regarded as her best race. She’ll compete in the giant slalom on Sunday with hopes of scoring her first Olympic medal since 2018.
🏂 Despite competing with a torn labrum, snowboarder Chloe Kim’s quest for a halfpipe gold medal three-peat is still on — the icon topped the leaderboard with a score of 90.25 in qualifiers this morning. Stay tuned: The men’s qualifying round begins today at 1:30 p.m. ET.
⛷️ The women’s freestyle skiing moguls final — featuring America’s Elizabeth Lemley, Olivia Giaccio, Tess Johnson, and Jaelin Kauf — is today at 8:15 a.m. ET. Permission to be late to your 9 a.m. meeting, granted.
🥈🎿 Team USA’s Ben Ogden won ski sprint silver yesterday, breaking a 50-year American medal drought in cross-country skiing. Must be all the knitting.
🥉🛷 Ashley Farquharson is now just the second American woman to own a luge Olympic medal after claiming bronze in the singles competition yesterday.
🏅🎿 Sweden swept the podium in yesterday’s women’s cross-country ski sprint, marking the first podium sweep of the Milano Cortina Games.
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Nordic combined
🎿 Holding out for a hero
The GIST: The first of three men’s Nordic combined events is currently underway, but their women counterparts weren’t even invited to the Olympic party. That’s right, Nordic combined’s the only current winter Olympic sport exclusively contested by men. Certainly don’t love that.
🤔 What exactly is Nordic combined?: The unique dual-sport event is a combination of ski jumping and cross country skiing. First, athletes compete in one round of ski jumping. Those results determine where they start the 10km cross country race that follows. The staggered start ensures the athletes who jump the farthest receive a time advantage.
- So, why isn’t there a women’s event at the Games despite the sport being part of the Olympic program since 1924? Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but it seems to be rooted in assumptions that the women’s event isn’t worth investing in. Hmm.
With some help from friend of The GIST, Finnish-American skier Annika Malacinski (whose brother is competing at these Games), let’s dispel two misconceptions:
1️⃣ There aren’t enough women competing: Yes, Nordic combined is a niche winter sport, but Malacinski said there are 30 Olympic-caliber women from nine different countries, not far off the field for today’s individual normal hill men’s event that features 36 athletes from 15 countries.
- What’s more, there’s regularly scheduled international competition every year, meaning there’s already a pipeline in place for the women’s side to continue to grow, an opportunity that would only flourish with the inclusion of the sport at the Games.
2️⃣ Viewership and interest will be low: People aren’t watching the men, but that doesn’t mean the same will be true for the women. Malacinski’s fight for equality has gone viral, while other sports — take U.S. women’s soccer, for example — have proven that low metrics for the men aren’t predictive for the women. Including women just might save the sport, actually.
Event | ⏰ | 👀 |
| 🛷 Luge women’s doubles final | Today at 11 a.m. | 🇺🇲 Sophia Kirkby & Chevonne Forgan |
| 💨⛸️ Speed skating men’s 1,000m | Today at 12:30 p.m. | 🇺🇸 Jordan Stolz, Conor McDermott-Mostowy, Cooper McLeod |
| 🥌 Men’s curling round robin | Today at 1:05 p.m. | 🇨🇿 Czechia vs. 🇺🇸 U.S. |
| 🥇⛸️ Ice dance final | Today at 1:30 p.m. | 🇺🇸 Madison Chock & Evan Bates |
♥️ The Official Dad of Milano Cortina 2026
Have you met The GIST’s newest media correspondent? GISTer Beks snagged Olympic tickets for their women’s sports–loving dad while he’s vacationing in Europe, but Richard wouldn’t accept such an extravagant gift from his child…so Beks told him their “connections” had given the tickets in exchange for on-the-ground coverage. Enter: The GIST.
- Richard’s now our official man on the ground, providing live footage of and commentary on the aforementioned USA vs. Canada women’s hockey game yesterday. Even Team USA women’s hockey captain Hilary Knight is absolutely locked in on DadView.
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