2026 Frosty climate Olympics: Chloe Kim falls short of snowboarding history and extra

American snowboarder Chloe Kim fell exact short of history at the Frosty climate Olympics on Thursday.

Kim, who changed into once looking out for to changed into the well-known snowboarder to bag three straight Olympic gold medals with a victory within the females’s halfpipe final, gave the affect to be smartly heading within the correct route after an 88.00 in her first flee. A plunge in her second flee left her susceptible, alternatively, and 17-year-weak South Korean Choi Ga-on took support, scoring a 90.25 in her third flee. Kim changed into once unable to beat that deficit, falling in her third flee.

The preliminary round for males’s ice hockey started with the U.S. and Canada among worldwide locations in action. The U.S. group hasn’t won gold in males’s Olympic hockey since 1980, however this year it’s gold medal or bust. “That’s the expectation,” captain Auston Matthews acknowledged. Each the U.S. and Canada got started on the exact foot in their openers, worthwhile 5-1 and 5-0, respectively.

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Below are the head moments from Thursday’s events.