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About three months before the Games, Suter sustained a broken ankle in a preliminary matchup against the Canadian Olympic team.
Matti Nykanen won four Olympic gold medals, including three in 1988 at the Calgary Games.
The U.S. team went on to defeat Finland for the gold medal.
Colledge was also the first woman to execute a double-rotation jump in competition, at the 1936 European championships in Berlin.
Cecilia Colledge was the youngest athlete ever to compete in the Winter Olympics.
Herb Brooks was a coach for the University of Minnesota at the time of the 1980 Games.
The Winter Olympics were first held in 1924 in Chamonix, France.
And if you apply wax yourself, look for products labeled PFAS-free.
The 2026 Winter Olympics for the first time also incorporated that rule.
Then on Day 4, two South Korean skiers, Lee Eui-jin, 24, and Han Da-som, 31, were disqualified after the women’s sprint classic qualifier.
They are the first known offenders of a new rule that bans the use of ski wax that contains these chemicals, which have moisture-wicking properties that can help skis and snowboards go a lot faster in the snow.
Three Olympic athletes were disqualified for a novel reason: PFAS.
Masaki Shiba of Japan was among the three disqualified.
He said he knew of the ban and thought his equipment was in compliance.
He has allowed two goals in two games and has surely earned the right to be the Americans’ No. 1 heading into the medal round.
To be blunt, the Americans’ worst line in a tournament-opening win over Latvia was the top line of Jake Guentzel-Matthews-Boldy.
Hellebuyck likely earns medal round
However, instead of a second-tier opponent, it will likely draw Sweden, which surprisingly fell to the No. 7 seed.
Canada-Czechia and U.S.-Sweden are medal-level matchups, the Olympic equivalent of the Colorado Avalanche and Dallas Stars meeting in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs last year.
Slovakia’s surprising first-place finish in Group B has turned the tournament somewhat on its ear.
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