Lysacek Gold

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Lysacek Gold : Pressing the United States and the Winter Olympic Games leading up to 18 medals after work on Thursday.

The United States won the men’s gold medal in figure skating, when gold medalist Evan Lysacek in the program a solid and clean. Is the first man to win the United States in skiing since Brian Boitano in 1988. However, the news is not all as good as Lindsey Vonn’s attempt to win another gold medal in ice skating disappeared when it crashed in the slalom super combined.

In other work, the U.S. men’s hockey team beat Norway 6-1 to set up a huge match with Canada, and the winner of Switzerland in a surprisingly competitive 3-2.

The United States now has 18 medals, seven more than runnerup Germany.