The Morning Journal (Lorain, OH)
Davidson’s back-to back goals lead USA to victory in women’ hockey
PYEONGCHANG, SOUTH KOREA » Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson can’t remember ever scoring twice on the same shift. The threetime Olympian looking for her first gold medal is just happy to give the Americans a bit of a boost.
She did it in Olympic record fashion.
Lamoureux-Davidson had the fastest back-to-back goals in Olympic history, scoring 6 seconds apart in the second period as the United States shut out the Russians, 5-0, on Tuesday night.
“I don’t know if I’ll ever come close to that again,” Lamoureux-Davidson said. “But we’ll see.”
Lamoureux-Davidson not only topped Canada’s Caroline Oullette, who scored twice in 16 seconds on Feb. 11, 2006, in a 16-0 rout of Italy at Turin, but also the men’s mark of 8 seconds apart held by Carl Goran Oberg of Sweden in 1960 at Squaw Valley.
Kacey Bellamy, who scored the first goal of the game off a pass from Lamoureux-Davidson, called the record incredible.
“She works so hard on and off the ice, she deserves it and gave us a really good momentum boost ... obviously in the second period leading into the third,” Bellamy said.
In the Mix
Lawes and Morris were too good in the mixed doubles curling final, with Switzerland conceding in the sixth end of the match after
missing an opportunity for a takeout with its last shot of the end. That gave Canada another two points. Seeing no way to come back from the deficit, the Swiss ended the game.
The team from Russia picked up bronze with Anastasia Bryzgalova tumbling onto the ice but bouncing back with teammate — and husband — Aleksandr Krushelnitckii for an 8-4 victory over Norway. Bryzgalova was shuffling backward in the third end when she stumbled over a stone and had her legs fly out from under her and she crashed hard onto her backside. The spill drew gasps from the stunned crowd and left a stunned Bryzgalova
embarrassed for a moment.
Dutch Double
Kjeld Nuis led teammate Patrick Roest in a 1-2 finish in the 1,500 meters to give Netherlands four wins from four finals in speedskating at the Olympic Oval.
The Dutch have now won eight of 12 medals at the Pyeongchang Games, keeping them on the stunning medal pace set at the 2014 Sochi Games when they finished with 23 out of 36.
Cros Country
Klaebo won gold in the men’s cross-country sprint, with Frederico Pellegrino of Italy getting the better of a photo finish to take silver ahead of Russian competitor Alexander Bolshunov.
Stina Nilsson of Sweden won the women’s crosscountry sprint. Maiken Caspersen of Norway was second and Russian skier Yulia Belorukova took bronze.
Yet again, there was no medal for the United States. Jessica Diggins placed sixth, failing in her quest to become the first American woman to win an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing.
Striking gold
Geisenberger is the third woman to win consecutive Olympic luge golds, joining fellow German greats Steffi Martin Walter and Sylke Otto.
She beat German teammate Dajana Eitberger and Alex Gough, who took bronze to give Canada its first Olympic luge medal.
Erin Hamlin of the United States was sixth.
Hot water
Japanese short-track speedskater Kei Saito tested positive for the banned diuretic Acetalozamide in the first doping case of the Pyeongchang Games.
Saito, a reserve on the 5,000-meter relay team, said in a statement that he was “extremely shocked” by the results and has “never used anabolic steroids.” He did not race in any event before the test result from a pre-competition sample was confirmed.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Saito “accepted on a voluntary basis to be provisionally suspended.”