Hello from Milan and Cortina, where the USA women’s hockey team will face a familiar foe in the gold-medal game, two Americans were on the podium in women’s monobob and a Norwegian skier melted down after losing out on a medal. Catch our coverage on NBC News and on Peacock . These Winter Olympics have not been kind to favorites. From Ilia Malinin to Lindsey Vonn and Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt, athletes many figured would be in the mix for gold have struggled to live up to weighty expectations.