United States Olympic Figure Skating Results 2022: Scores, Highlights and Reaction from Sunday

The skaters from the Russian Olympic Committee caught the very first figure skating gold medal of the 2022 Beijing Olympics, however the skaters of the United States joined them on the podium as the silver medalists.

Sunday was the last day of the group competitors that consisted of 8 various total sections.

Three of those sectors took place on the last day, and the Americans ended up in 5th location in the sets totally free skate (Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier), initially in the ice dance totally free skate (Madison Chock and Evan Bates) and 4th location in the females’s songs complimentary skate (Karen Chen) to clinch the silver.

Japan made the bronze to finish the medals.

Here is a take a look at how the occasion unfolded from the Americans’ viewpoint.

Team Event Format

The group occasion began with 10 nations prepared to contend in 8 sections: a brief program and a complimentary skate for males’s songs and females’s songs, ice dance and sets. The field was cut down to 5 after the brief programs with the ROC, United States, Japan, Canada and China advancing.

The winner of each occasion made 10 points for their nation, while 2nd location got 9, 3rd location got 8 and so on for the remainder of the rivals.

After the 8 sections, the points throughout the occasions were accumulated and the nation with the most was the gold-medal winner.

Coming Into Sunday

The United States discovered itself in 2nd location heading into the last day of competitors with 42 points.

It routed the ROC (45 points) and led Japan (39 points), Canada (30 points) and China (30 points).

It appeared the Americans might be on their method to gold after Nathan Chen made 10 points with a fantastic efficiency in the guys’s songs brief program that might foreshadow his private competitors later on in the Games. The Red, White and Blue preserved that momentum when Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue won 10 points in the ice dance brief program.

However, Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier ended up in 3rd location in the sets brief program, which is where Vincent Zhou put in the males’s songs totally free skate.

Karen Chen likewise dissatisfied en route to 5th location in the ladies’s brief program. While it was impractical to anticipate her to equal the spectacular efficiency of the ROC’s Kamila Valieva, completing beyond the leading 3 put the United States in resurgence mode getting in Sunday’s slate and made winning the gold medal rather the overwhelming job.

Sunday’s Results

Pairs Free

1. Anastasia Mishina/Aleksandr Galliamov, ROC: 145.20(10 points)
2. Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara, Japan: 139.60(9 points)
3. Peng Cheng/Jin Yang, China: 131.75(8 points)
4. Vanessa James/Eric Radford, Canada: 130.07(7 points)
5. Alexa Knierim/Brandon Frazier, United States: 128.97(6 points)

If a gold medal for the ROC wasn’t unavoidable prior to Sunday’s very first occasion, it wanted it.

Despite a difficult fall, Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov paced the field in the sets totally free skate thanks to the total technical trouble of their program. That wasn’t the only unpleasant news for the Americans, as Knierim and Frazier completed in last location.

That dropped the United States into a tie for 2nd location with Japan as its early momentum from the opening 2 wins in the group occasion faded even more into the background.

Ice Dance Free

1. Madison Chock/Evan Bates, United States: 129.07(10 points)
2. Victoria Sinitsina/Nikita Katsalapov, ROC: 128.17(9 points)
3. Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier, Canada: 124.39(8 points)
4. Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu, China: 107.18(7 points)
5. Misato Komatsubara/Tim Koleto, Japan: 98.66(6 points)

The Americans required a huge efficiency from their group co-captains if they wished to win silver after the frustrating displaying in the sets complimentary, and they got simply that in significant style.

Chock and Bates surpassed even the ROC’s Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov to win the ice dance complimentary occasion and make 10 crucial points to develop some much-needed separation from Japan.

It took a few of the drama far from the females’s songs complimentary skate because the medals were all however chosen, however it was likewise an unforgettable proving from the couple– both on and off the ice– in the face of Olympic pressure.

Women’s Singles Free

1. Kamila Valieva, ROC: 178.92(10 points)
2. Kaori Sakamoto, Japan: 148.66(9 points)
3. Madeline Schizas, Canada: 132.04(8 points)
4. Karen Chen, United States: 131.52(7 points)
5. Zhu Yi, China: 91.41(6 points)

All Chen needed to do to clinch the silver was prevent a last-place surface in the females’s songs complimentary skate, and she recovered from her brief program with a tidy skate.

While Valieva was an unequalled force as soon as again and finished a head-turning quad, the American was noticeably delighted with her proving as she put the complements on the total revealing for her nation.

The outcome was an area on the podium and a silver medal after an efficiency that consisted of a lot of highs and triumphes in the guys’s songs short, ice dance brief and ice dance complimentary.