Ice, Ice, Updates

Team USA’s had a golden week. 

On Wednesday, Mikaela Shiffrin won gold in women’s slalom skiing after failing to medal in Beijing in 2022. Then yesterday, Alyssa Lui triple-lutzed her way to figure skating gold (see the highlights), and the undefeated women’s hockey team outscored Canada 2-1 in overtime to top the podium. 

Meanwhile, Norwegian skier Johannes Klæbo extended his winningest-Winter-Olympian record with a 10th career gold, ski mountaineering made its Olympic debut, and Nazgul, the ringwraith wolfdog, made his Olympic debut when he crashed a women’s cross-country skiing event (see his epic race to the finish). 

Now, eyes are sliding to men’s hockey. Team USA faces Slovakia in the semis today after its own OT win over Sweden Wednesday (see the winning slapshot). Catch the final and the Olympic closing ceremonies on Sunday. 

CHRISTIAN RESPONSE
Sure, it’s “just a game,” but sports are an opportunity to experience camaraderie with fellow fans and to enjoy the thrill of watching athletes do what God created them to do. As you watch athletes compete, thank God that He also made you to do beautiful things, and pray that you’d bring Him glory in all you do. 

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.” 
Ephesians 2:10 (CSB) (read full passage)