Colorado to Italy: Vail’s Elizabeth Lemley sits second after Olympic qualifying in moguls
Tracking Coloradans competing in the Olympic Winter Games
Vail’s Elizabeth Lemley ranked second in qualifying in the women’s freestyle skiing moguls on Tuesday morning. The 20-year-old posted a qualification score of 80.95, behind only Austria’s Jakara Anthony (81.65).
The second round of qualifying will be held early Wednesday morning, with finals slated for 6:15 a.m. Wednesday.
A pilot since the age of 17, Lemley notes in her Team USA bio a hope to “one day join the Air Force and SpaceX.”
– Mikaela Shiffrin’s fourth Olympic Games got off to a disappointing start in the team slalom combined as Breezy Johnson handed the Edwards resident a lead but Shiffrin lost time at every checkpoint and missed a medal by 0.06 seconds.
Shiffrin, the most decorated slalom racer in history, has gone seven straight Olympic races without a medal.
– A team with two Coloradans finished seventh in the ski jumping mixed team competition Tuesday.
Each team consisted of two male and two female competitors. Team USA’s lineup included Annika Belshaw and Jason Colby, both of Steamboat Springs.
Belshaw scored 108 and 111.1 points on her two jumps, while Colby came in at 126.7 and 129.3.
The Americans finished with 932.9 points, while Slovenia took gold at 1,069.2.
– Landon Wendler (Steamboat Springs) and Charlie Mickel (Durango) fell just outside of the top 10 in the first round of qualifying for men’s moguls, landing cork 7s with a tail grab to score just over 75 points.
Mickel finished 11th and Wendler 12th among the 30-skier field.
The second chance at qualifying will be at 2 a.m. Thursday.
– Boulder’s Lauren Jortberg was eliminated in the quarterfinal round of the women’s cross-country skiing women’s sprint classic.
Jortberg’s time of 4:00.81 was 5.6 seconds off the pace.
– Niklas Malacinski (Steamboat Springs) sits in 13th place after official training in the Nordic combined normal hill. His 70.9 total points top the Americans in the field.
He will be back in action early Wednesday.
– Steamboat Springs’ Madeline Schaffrick will begin her Olympics at 1 a.m. Wednesday in the women’s snowboard halfpipe qualifying.
It will be the Olympic debut for Schaffrick, 31, who got her start in snowboarding at 7 when she locked herself in her bedroom until her parents allowed her to switch from skis.
– River Radamus (Edwards) and Kyle Negomir (Littleton) will be back in action Wednesday in qualifying for the alpine skiing men’s Super-G.
The Colorado pair represented the U.S. in the alpine skiing men’s team combined competition Monday, finishing 19th.
BROADCAST SCHEDULE
All items streaming on Peacock in addition to the network listed. This does not include reairing of events.
Bold indicates medals will be awarded.
WEDNESDAY
2 a.m. – Ski jumping (Nordic combined men’s normal hill), USA
2:45 a.m. – Snowboarding (Women’s halfpipe: Qualifying), USA
3 a.m. – Freestyle skiing (Women’s moguls: Qualifying)
3:30 a.m. – Alpine skiing (Men’s Super-G), USA
4:20 a.m. – Figure skating (Training)
4:45 a.m. – Snowboard (Women’s halfpipe: qualifying), USA
5:30 a.m. – Freestyle skiing (Women’s moguls: Qualifying), USA
5:45 a.m. – Nordic combined (Men’s normal hill: 10 km)
6:15 a.m. – Biathlon (Women’s 15 km individual), USA
6:15 a.m. – Freestyle skiing (Women’s moguls: Final)
8:40 a.m. – Hockey (Slovakia vs. Finland), USA
9 a.m. – Figure skating (Free dance: warm-up)
9 a.m. – Luge (Men’s & women’s doubles), USA
10 a.m. – Freestyle skiing (Women’s moguls), NBA
10:30 a.m. – Speedskating (Men’s 1,000 meter), NBC
10:45 a.m. – Luge (Women’s doubles), USA
10:55 a.m. – Luge (Women’s doubles), NBC
11:05 a.m. – Curling (Mixed doubles: USA vs. Czechia, Sweden vs. Italy, Canada vs. Germany, China vs. Great Britain)
11:40 a.m. – Snowboarding (Men’s halfpipe: Qualifying), NBC
12:15 p.m. – Figure skating (Free dance), NBC
12:15 p.m. – Snowboarding (Men’s halfpipe: Qualifying), USA
1:25 p.m. – Hockey (Sweden vs. Italy), USA
(Prime-time coverage on NBC begins at 7 p.m. with reairing of highlights and events that are TBD)
THURSDAY
1:05 a.m. – Curling (Women: South Korea vs. USA, Canada vs. Denmark, Italy vs. Switzerland, Japan vs. Sweden)
1:30 a.m. – Skeleton (Men’s: Run 1)
2 a.m. – Freestyle skiing (Men’s moguls: Qualifying Round 2), USA
2 a.m. – Snowboarding (Men’s snowboard cross: Qualifying), USA
3:05 a.m. – Skeleton (Men’s: Run 2)
3:30 a.m. – Alpine skiing (Women’s Super-G), USA
4:10 a.m. – Hockey (Switzerland vs. France)
4:15 a.m. – Freestyle skiing (Men’s moguls: Finals), USA
5:15 a.m. – Cross-country skiing (Women’s 10 km free), USA
6:05 a.m. – Curling (Men’s: USA vs. Switzerland, Great Britain vs. Sweden, Norway vs. Germany)
6:20 a.m. – Women’s hockey (Finland vs. Canada)
6:35 a.m. – Snowboarding (Men’s snowboard cross: Finals), USA
7:15 a.m. – Curling (Women’s: South Korea vs. USA), USA
8:30 a.m. – Speedskating (Women’s 5,000 meters)
8:40 a.m. – Hockey (Czechia vs. Canada), USA
10:45 a.m. – Luge (team relay), NBC
11:05 a.m. – Curling (Sweden vs. USA, Women’s: China vs. Great Britain, Denmark vs. Japan, Italy vs. South Korea)
11:30 a.m. – Snowboarding (Women’s snowboard halfpipe: Final), NBC
12:55 p.m. – Speedskating (Short track: Women’s 500 meters and Men’s 1,000 meters), NBC
1:10 p.m. – Hockey (USA vs. Latvia, Germany vs. Denmark)
2 p.m. – Cross-country skiing (Women’s 10 km free), NBC
(Prime-time coverage on NBC begins at 7 p.m. with reairing of highlights and events that are TBD)
