By Jacob Calvin Meyer - The Washington Times - Thursday, February 10, 2022

The Olympic gold medals are starting to pour in for the United States.

The Americans broke their five-day gold-less streak to open the 2022 Winter Olympics on Day 6 with multiple gold medals. 

All three individual winners were impressive in their own right, but Chloe Kim’s may have been the most historic. The snowboarder on Wednesday night became the first woman to ever win consecutive gold medals on the halfpipe. 

Then, figure skater Nathan Chen earned redemption. After falling during the short program at the 2018 PyeongChang Games, Chen didn’t live up to the hype by finishing fifth. Four years later, Chen, 22, was dominant to claim gold. Earlier this week, he broke the world record in the men’s short program and then on Thursday clinched first place with his free skate, set to music from the Elton John movie “Rocketman.” 

But Chen wasn’t the only American to get redemption. On Wednesday morning, snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis won the U.S. its first gold medal of the Games, winning the women’s snowboardcross to avenge her devastating fall in the same event 16 years ago. 

The U.S. won a fourth gold on Thursday morning in the Olympics’ inaugural mixed team aerials event. The gold medal — won by Ashley Caldwell, Christopher Lillis and Justin Schoenefeld — is the Americans’ first medal in the freestyle skiing discipline in 12 years. 

As of Thursday morning, the U.S. is one of five countries with double-digit medals. The Americans are fifth with 10 — behind Austria (13), Norway (12), Canada (12) and Russia (11). 

• Jacob Calvin Meyer can be reached at jmeyer@washingtontimes.com.

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