defeating norway 8-4. canada and switzerland face-off for the gold today. finally the olympics lost its further athlete to doping suspension after speed skater was found to have tested positive for a chemical used to mask the presence of banned drugs. he was scheduled to take part in the 5000 meter event. he was ordered to leave the olympic village. back to you guys. i thought that was great. i did like that. you crushed it. that is this is football louis vergdorf. thank you so much. this is the first time this has ever happened to me. i got into a fight on twitter about curling. oh, no. it seems that jazz shaw. i took your phone away. what happened? jazz shaw was like screw the
history was also made when speed skater us then come out and this is a man who is a superstar in the netherlands they just love him she actually won his for it straight gold medal in the men s five thousand need a speed skating event that s something that s been never done well so yeah pretty exciting and of course a big day for seventeen year old red gerard on the slopestyle wow yeah it just keeps getting better and yet it doesn t it so yeah it was a huge night for him and it all came down to one bold and risky move so he basically had one last shot at nori and he did it with exactly as you see on the screen that difficult trick it s got the back side triple cork forty fourteen forty it s a very complicated move that is basically four full rotations and all this from a teenager who didn t even wasn t even interested in you learn picks and who learned most of his tricks you know in his own backyard so i got former oh yeah
luge. if you re keeping track at home, germany having the most gold medals. all rounding out the top five. eboni: joining us now in the winter olympics, a two-time former olympic speed skater, thanks for being with us. my pleasure. eboni: jordan, who took home a bronze back in 2010 and 2014 in sochi you brought home the silver medal for us. as somebody who competed in russia, certainly not a place where historically the united states is the friendliest political relationship committee think it s impact in the athletes from america that are currently in south korea to have such kind of political tension in that neighborhood as they are competing for olympic gold? e-mail, and i think that you may carry some of that with you when you go to the games, but
described as a sanction but rather eligibility decision and jumping beyond that story just very briefly there s also been some controversy in the u.s. camp yes shani davis who s a very decorated american speed skater is not taking part in the opening ceremony now his camp says that s because he wants to focus on his race and he was very annoyed that he lost out on carrying the flag that such the consumer and the loser erin have now that was decided on a coin toss because the vote was tight a lot of people thought shani davis should have carried the flag he s done a lot to advance black athletes in the winter olympics he was the first black athletes who actually win an individual win for them to go and so he s very disappointed he called the decision dishonorable all right well the opening ceremonies have gotten underway in pyongyang and jonathan crane from database sports thank you very much for bringing us up to date you re welcome. now these games also have historical political aspec
150 feet. reporter: scott smith is a ski jumping coach and president of the norge ski club, founded in 1905 by some norwegian immigrants who must have wanted to spice up chicago winters. see, i don t think of illinois as being particularly alpine, you know, like mountains. doesn t that go with ski jumps? um, not always. reporter: they built the ski jump, and the jumpers came. the club s annual competition was held this past weekend, and thousands of fans showed up. fritz gohl was one of them. this is one of the biggest crowds i ve seen, in maybe the last 20 years. reporter: do you have norwegian blood coarsing through sur veins? no, no, swiss. reporter: swiss! there s more interest than usual in the jumpers now because the little norge ski club is, for te first time, sending not one but three homegrown contestants to the winter olympics: kevin