Olympic update – U.S. women’s hockey falls to Canada

Olympic Update:
–The defending Olympic champion U.S. women’s hockey team fell 4-2 to archrival Canada in the Group A finale. Canada is now the tournament’s top seed entering the playoff round. Unless there is an upset along the way, it’s expected the two teams will meet again in the gold-medal game.
–American skier Ryan Cochran-Siegle won the silver medal in the men’s super-G, the first Alpine medal for the U.S. in Beijing. It came 50 years after his mother, Barbara Cochran, won gold in the slalom in the 1972 Olympics.
–U.S. figure skater Nathan Chen is in first place after the men’s figure skating short program, scoring 113.97 points to set a new world record, putting him in front by more than five points ahead of the free skate
–The latest medal count has the Russian Olympic Committee in first place with eight medals, followed by Austria with seven and Canada with six. In the gold medal count, China and Sweden are tied with three each and six countries have two. The U.S. has four medals overall, all of them silver.