after an epic win yesterday over russia, the u.s. men s olympic hockey team beat slovenia today 5-1, so the team will advance to the quarterfinals. and it was a big day for team usa in the men s super-g. the pressure was on bode miller, so was he able to make up for it? we ll give you results in just a minute. and after a long back and forth, team usa speed skaters finally switched out their controversial body armor suits. all 39 players took to the ice saturday in the men s 1,500 meters wearing suits from their previous successful world cup season. but how much of a difference did it really make? we ll take a look at that. here we go with your spoiler alert. in the next few minutes, we re going to talk about some of the olympic events that have already happened but haven t been broadcast yet, so turn away or turn down the sound on your tv if you don t want to hear them. maybe you can all watch it tonight on nbc in primetime. let s get more on the games. we re bringing in nbc s ann
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them. me, too. if they win a medal, they ll be the first figure skaters in history to bring home two medals, right, for the u.s. in figure skating? reporter: they would. and that s because there s this new team competition this year, which happened right at the beginning of the olympiad. the u.s. won bronze in that and won bronze in large part because of the tremendous performance by meryl davis and charlie white. tonight they are skating, they are in the last group to skate. that group is on the ice now. and meryl davis and charlie white are the very last pair to skate. they re frenemies. they re big competition from canada have already skated. and they are in first place. so we ll see what the americans can bring. yeah. and i think they have the same trainers, too. they train in the same area. reporter: they have the same coaches. yeah. that s a little too close for comfort. reporter: we see that a lot in skating. you know, in the men s figure skating, the gold and silver
groovy reggae track called appropriately the bobsled song and it s going viral online. it was this team s qualification for the 1988 olympics in alberta that inspired the disney film cool runnings. lolo jones is reportedly none too happy about the current balmy temperatures in sochi. they completed their last practice runs today ahead of tuesday s women s bobsled competition. upset that she can t sport any of her stylish winter gear, apparently. jones says next time sochi should bid for the summer games. today s high there, 55 degrees. canada came on strong, getting its first nine medals at a furious pace. right now canada is in the top five. two of them came from a brand-new event. it s the women s slopestyle ski competition. joining me now are the two big winners, bronze medalist kim lamar and gold medalist dara howell. what an amazing experience for