Winter Olympics 2022 — USA women’s hockey routs ROC, Jamie Anderson advances in

The 2022 Winter Olympics are officially underway in Beijing. The opening ceremony began the festivities, and the first day of action saw some upsets and big finishes.

American Jamie Anderson began her attempt at a three-peat in women’s snowboard slopestyle, qualifying into the finals alongside teammates Hailey Langland and Julia Marino.

Snowboarding legend Shaun White announced these would be his last Olympic Games. The 35-year-old has three Olympic gold medals to go along with 18 individual Winter X Games medals.

“I’m sort of pinching myself, with how lucky I am to still be here at this age,” he said.

Here’s some of the day’s action:

USA dominates ROC in hockey

Team USA’s women’s hockey team notched its second preliminary round win of the Olympic tournament with a 5-0 win over the Russian Olympic Committee team.

Hilary Knight’s goal 8:51 into the second period gave Team USA some critical breathing room against ROC, increasing their lead to 2-0 despite outshooting their opponents 36-6 after two periods. Grace Zumwinkle’s goal 3:57 into the third period allowed them to exhale.

ROC goalie Maria Sorokina kept her team in the game against Team USA for two periods. But the Americans opened the flood gates in the third period, scoring three goals in 4:47 to take control of what had been a closer game than many expected. USA outshot ROC 60-12 in the 5-0 win.

USA will face Switzerland next, followed by Canada to close prelim play. — Greg Wyshynski

It’s the NO LOOK PASS from @HilaryKnight. 👀#WinterOlympics pic.twitter.com/EXajExqzNC

— Olympic Hockey on NBC (@NBCSportsHockey) February 5, 2022

🤝@Savannah_Harmon & @HilaryKnight connect again!#TeamUSA | #WinterOlympics pic.twitter.com/3F5fZTekxu

— USA Hockey (@usahockey) February 5, 2022

🤯 What a feed from @DaniCam9 to @gracezumwinkle!#WinterOlympics | #TeamUSA 🇺🇸pic.twitter.com/QxeBRr4pox

— USA Hockey (@usahockey) February 5, 2022

Another FIRST!

This time it’s @JessComph7 scoring her first Olympic goal. #WinterOlympics

📺: @USA_Network & @peacockTV pic.twitter.com/hAMTsnIIyF

— NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) February 5, 2022

It’s a party in the U-S-A! 🇺🇸@carpy05 gets her third goal of the #WinterOlympics. pic.twitter.com/3twrPcVHyS

— Team USA (@TeamUSA) February 5, 2022

An upset on the moguls

Sweden’s Walter Wallberg scored an upset in the men’s moguls as he edged past favorite Mikael Kingsbury, of Canada, to take gold on Saturday. Japan’s Ikuma Horishima took bronze.

Wallberg, 21, had the final run of the day and needed to better Kingsbury’s score of 82.18. Kingsbury had taken gold at Pyeongchang 2018, but Wallberg put in a sublime run to record 83.23 to knock the Canadian out of first place.

It was a remarkable feat for Wallberg, who just two years ago suffered a serious cruciate ligament injury. There were fears at the time it would be career-ending, but he battled back only to then tear his meniscus. After further rehabilitation, he recovered from that to win Sweden’s first-ever gold medal in freestyle skiing. — Tom Hamilton

Walter Wallberg wins Sweden’s first-ever moguls medal!

He edged Canada’s Mikael Kingbury for the gold medal victory. 🥇 pic.twitter.com/PkdEUfhwoQ

— NBC…