"Remember curling? Canada's Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman fell in love while teaming up to try to qualify for the 2018 Olympics in mixed doubles, and now-one child later-they've finally made it. On Thursday, they beat Italy's defending gold medalists Amos Mosaner and Stefania Constantini, snapping their twenty-three game win streak, before losing to the U.S. team of Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin this morning in round-robin play."
"What about single figure skating? The defending men's champion, Nathan Chen (the Quad King), is missing the Games, choosing to focus on his studies at Yale Medical School, but the American Ilia Malinin (the Quad God) might already be the greatest figure skater in history, and he's only twenty-one. The U.S. also has two gold-medal contenders on the women's side, in Amber Glenn and Alysa Liu, both of whom represent a break from the sport's tradition of jewel-box ballerinas."
The Winter Olympics opening ceremonies take place in Milan's San Siro stadium under the theme "harmony." Several events began before the main ceremonies, including curling, women's hockey, and team figure skating. Canadian mixed-doubles curlers Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman qualified after years together, briefly snapping Italy's twenty-three game win streak before losing in round-robin play. Nathan Chen is absent to attend Yale Medical School while Ilia Malinin emerges as a leading men's contender. Amber Glenn and Alysa Liu are U.S. women's medal hopes. A ski-jumping suit crotch controversy has prompted a World Anti-Doping Agency inquiry. Chloe Kim and Mia Brookes are notable snowboard names to watch.
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