Wednesday at the 2022 Winter Olympics will be dominated by snowboarding greats Shaun White, Chloe Kim and Lindsey Jacobellis.
Kim won the 2018 Olympic halfpipe title at age 17, while White and Jacobellis are each competing in their fifth Olympics (more on that below.) Kim and White will compete in halfpipe qualifying, while Jacobellis will aim to win a medal in snowboardcross.
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On the slopes, Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin returns for the women’s slalom competition. Earlier in the week, Shiffrin did not finish her first run in the giant slalom — a rare failure for an athlete who almost never misses. Shiffrin is trying to win the third gold medal of her career — and become the first American to do so in Alpine in Olympic history.
“I’m not going to cry about this,” she said Monday, “because that’s just wasting energy.”
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Five-timers club
Shaun White announced right after the Beijing Olympics began that these will be his fifth and final Winter Games. He is undoubtedly one of America’s greatest Olympians and a snowboarding icon. He has three Olympic gold medals and 13 Winter X Games wins.
“I’m a competitor and I want to win,” White said of his final Olympics. “I can’t show up without that feeling, so it’s still there. I am going in eyes open, ready for any outcome. But yeah, I’m hoping to win.”
White is not the only five-time Olympian competing tonight. Lindsey Jacobellis will compete in snowboardcross. She has won six world championships, 10 X Games gold medals and an Olympic silver medal.
Event schedule (all times ET)
8:30 p.m.: Women’s snowboard halfpipe qualifying
9:15 p.m.: Women’s slalom
10 p.m.: Men’s free ski big air final
10 p.m.: Women’s snowboard cross qualifying
11:30 p.m.: Men’s snowboard halfpipe qualifying
1:30 a.m.: Women’s snowboard cross final
3:40 a.m.: Men’s hockey prelim — Russian Olympic Committee vs. Switzerland
6 a.m.: Men’s and women’s short track speed skating
7:05 a.m.: Men’s curling round robin — USA vs. Russian Olympic Committee
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