Winter Olympics: USA beat Finland to reach gold medal match
XXIII Olympic Winter Games. Venue: Pyeongchang, South Korea Dates: 9-25 February. Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, Red Button, Connected TVs, BBC Sport website and mobile app.
The United States womens ice hockey team enjoyed a 5-0 win over Finland in the semi-finals to remain on target for their first gold medal in 20 years.
Dani Camarensi scored twice, with Gigi Marvin, Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Hilary Knight also finding the net. It will be a third successive appearance in the gold medal match for the Americans, who have lost to fierce rivals Canada on each occasion.
The USAs last gold medal in the womens event came at Nagano in 1998. Canada, winners at the past four Games, face the Olympic Athletes from Russia team in the other semi-final later on Monday.
Canada beat the USA in the preliminary stages and, should they reach the final, it will be the fifth time in six Olympics that the North American neighbours have contested the gold medal match.
The superpowers of womens ice hockey have also dominated in the World Championships, meeting in every final since the competition began in 1990.
How the American media reacted:. CBS: The women of Team USA will have a great shot at Olympic redemption when they take the ice for the final time in Pyeongchang on Wednesday.
Chicago Tribune: The United States will play for the gold medal that has eluded them for nearly two decades.
Minneapolis Star Tribune: Barring a historic upset by the Olympic Athletes from Russia in the other semi-final, the Americans will meet arch-rival Canada for gold for the third consecutive Olympics. Norovirus hits 238 people at Games.
Meanwhile, USA mens hockey player James Wisniewskis father Jim will not be attending the teams game against Slovakia on Tuesday after contracting norovirus.
The 62-year-old American vomited while waiting for a taxi and has been in isolation in one of two apartments his family rented for the Games.
Officials said on Monday the norovirus outbreak has hit 283 people at the Pyeongchang Games, including two athletes.
Most of the norovirus cases are workers who have since recovered, but Swiss freestyle skiers Fabian Boesch and Elias Ambuehl also fell sick with the highly contagious bug. Medals to be won on Monday.
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An anti-doping case has been opened against Russian medal-winning curler Alexander Krushelnitsky, says the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
French alpine skier Mathieu Faivre, the boyfriend of Olympic giant slalom champion Mikaela Shiffrin, has been sent home from the Winter Games following angry comments made after his giant slalom race on Sunday.
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