olympic events that have already happened but not broadcast. turn away if you don t want to hear them. you can watch it all tonight. let s bring in nbc sports columnist, alan abrahamson. bodie mill eric he failed to medal. what happened? reporter: to coin a phrase, he done overthunked it. the top of the course was bode s specialty and the numbers just don t lie. he raced that part of the course 0.6 slower than he did the day before. that was the cushion he needed to make up the time at the bottom where he was slower. the course conditions were undeniable slower today and he missed his cushion. that s what happened and known knows why. like b like bode with many things it s
ashley wagner. she was under so much pressure to perform. she s pretty happy with her performance, isn t she? with the way she skated is at least? she is but she made a face. she gets off the ice, is all giddy and looks at her score and is not so giddy anymore. ashley is under tremendous pressure to produce because she came in basically fourth with the de facto trials and she got put on the team anyway. then she changed her program and she was like do i belong here, do i not belong here, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. alan. go ahead. the score that she got, was it warranted? was it a fair score? reporter: well, the score that she got the most important thing about that score is it s ten points lower than julia lavrentieva of russia.
0 i winged it in my run and ended up landing it. u.s. with two gold and one bronze. norway with 2 gold, 1 bronze, one bronze, canada and austria are rounding out the top five. and we ll talk with hannah kearney about why the tears flowed. let s get to the weather. trout-stricken north k has seen much needed rain. it s gotten up to 11 inches reported in some areas, but what can you expect for the week ahead? nbc s dylan dreyer always seems to have the s. i tree. this is a good pattern to continue to see the rain out in parts of california. elsewhere we have snow moving through the plains. both of those systems won t really amount to all that much. you can see a closer look. some lighter snow moving through this point. tomorrow we re still cold in the northeast. 51 in atlanta. then temperatures tropp. that s why we could see some of that snow and ice start to work in especially by tuesday. alex? thanks for the heads-up. now to some stories topping the news. hundreds of people gathe
of it to take that iconic photograph, people have been looking for an alternative and has become the go-to place. we have olympic rings up on the hill. there s a line of people waiting to take photos. we stopped by just a few minutes ago and took a photo of our own. just to show you what an olympic animal she has become, savannah doesn t even have to turn around to tell you the color of the olympic rings. i knew you were going to do this to me one day, red, yellow, black, blue, green and orange there s only five and they re right over there if you wanted to look at them. you re the worst! i thought he was going to say that blue skies on top of it, clouds behind us on front and either side, sunshine here. natalie is an olympic athlete. she jumped in those heels. i did. it was very impressive! i d like to point out, i got the most height, too. you started ahead. just ahead, somebody who does not need a photo to remember these photos. gymnast danell ley
michael phelps final duel in pims. and you can use it in sponges, the pool today on thursday, you can flavor ice creams, you can even glaze a ham with that october 2nd, 2012. stuff. to team usa! announcer: from nbc news, team usa! this is a special edition of and england! today at the olympic games and our host england. and it being 5:00 somewhere! with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from london, england. you can buy this in the u.s., good morning and welcome to right? it s healthy, it has tod today on this thursday cucumbers. morning. i m savannah guthrie alongside you re getting your vegetables that day. matt lauer, al roker and natalie jamie oliver, thank you so morales. much. we have taken a little walk down coming up, the california man the road to see these olympic who is attending his 18th summer rings. with the brouhaha over the olympics, going all the way back olympic calderon where people to 194 2. can t get to it and get a view o