Winter Olympics 2022 - Chloe Kim goes back-to-back, Nathan Chen takes the ice and more live updates from the action in Beijing

What can figure skater Nathan Chen do for an encore at the 2022 Winter Olympics? Hopefully follow snowboarder Chloe Kim’s lead. Kim grabbed gold with an outstanding first run in the women’s halfpipe finals on Wednesday night. With Kim’s victory, she became the first woman in Olympic history to win back-to-back gold medals in the event.

As for Chen, he looks to build on a near flawless world-record setting short program performance (113.97 points) to earn his first Olympic gold in the men’s free skate.

The men’s hockey tournament got underway Wednesday morning with Denmark pulling the upset of the Czech Republic and the Russian Olympic Committee beating Switzerland.

The Americans open the tournament Thursday morning against China. What do you need to know about each team? We got it.

That’s two-time gold medalist Chloe Kim, to you …

Chloe Kim placed her hands on her ears, screaming at the end of her first run. She had two more runs left to go, but she already knew that run could very well make her the two-time Olympic champion. A frontside 1080. A cab 900. A switch backside 540. A cab 1080. There was nobody in the competition who could outperform that run.

And, defend her gold medal it did.

The scoreboard read 94.00.

Relive the gold medal-winning run from @ChloeKim! #WinterOlympics pic.twitter.com/EP7RnV2qxf

— NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) February 10, 2022

94.00.

CHLOE KIM. pic.twitter.com/LEaxoNsDkx

— Team USA (@TeamUSA) February 10, 2022

Kim fell in her second and third run, trying to compete with her own score, but it didn’t matter. Her score from her first run stuck, and the 21-year-old is now a two-time Olympic gold medalist.

Spain’s Queralt Castellet took silver, and Japan’s Sena Tomita took bronze. — Aishwarya Kumar