Here's what to watch for on Day 15 of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games:Alpine skiingThe last Alpine skiing race of the Beijing Olympics was moved from Saturday to Sunday because of too-strong wind, making Mikaela Shiffrin wait to get one last chance to bring home a medal from China.Gusts at up to about 40 mph led to the announcement of two one-hour delays for the mixed team parallel event, before the International Ski Federation eventually said it would not be possible to hold the competition at all on Saturday.About 75 minutes later, after what the ski federation called a meeting “to discuss the potential rescheduling of the event,” the race was shifted to Sunday at 9 a.m.Freestyle halfpipeNico Porteous of New Zealand overcame the swirling wind to win the Olympic halfpipe final on a day when many skiers struggled to land their best tricks because of strong gusts.Porteous scored a 93 in his opening run on a bitterly cold and breezy morning in the last event at the Genting Snow Park. He was blown off course on another run and landed hard on his shoulder. Two-time Olympic champion David Wise of the United States took home the silver. Wise won the title at its Olympic debut in 2014 and again in ’18. American teammate Alex Ferreira earned the bronze.Figure skatingPairs free skate is set for early Saturday morning and will feature Americans Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc along with Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier. LeDuc became Team USA's first openly nonbinary Winter Olympian when they took the ice the night before. Their score of 74.13 points was a season best and put them squarely in the top 10 entering Saturday’s free skate.Sui Wenjing and Han Cong of China set a world record with their short program, and they lead Russians Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov heading into the pairs' free skate.BobsledKaillie Humphries and Elana Meyers Taylor finished 1-2 for the U.S. in the monobob — the first time Americans had done that at the Olympics since 1932.They'll each have a teammate now in the two-woman event. Humphries will be pushed by Kaysha Love and Meyers Taylor by Sylvia Hoffman.Humphries won the world title in this event last year, competing with Lolo Jones.

Here's what to expect on Day 13 of the Beijing Olympic Games:HockeyAmerican assistant captain Hilary Knight calls it “a beautiful rivalry.” Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin sums it up as “very fun.”Don’t be fooled by the pleasantries.One of international sports’ fiercest and longest-running grudge matches will play out for the second time at the Beijing Olympics, with the next meeting between the United States and Canada determining who goes home with gold."These are the the games that we live for," U.S. captain Kendall Coyne Schofield said following a 4-1 semifinal win over Finland. "Everyone’s been so resilient through the pandemic with the ups and downs, the cancellations, postponements and finding ways to train, and it’s for this moment. We’re going to empty the tanks, and this is what we came here to do.”The U.S. is the defending Olympic champion after rallying to beat Canada 3-2 in a shootout at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.The Canadians are considered the favorites this time after steamrolling to a 6-0 record and outscoring opponents 54-8, including a 4-2 win over the U.S. in group play.Canada also had the edge over its cross-border rivals since Poulin scored the gold-medal-winning goal in a 3-2 overtime win over the U.S. at the world championships in August to end the Americans’ streak of five tournament titles. Canada is 5-1-1 in the past seven meetings against the U.S. since.Overall at the Olympics, which added women’s hockey in 1998, Canada is 6-3 against the U.S., with four gold medals to the Americans’ two.Figure skatingThe women's figure skating event ends early Thursday — the competition portion, at least.It remains to be seen how much longer it will be adjudicated.Kamila Valieva is in first place after the short program. That part isn't a surprise — but the 15-year-old Russian's path to this point has been anything but smooth. And there's no indication that will change anytime soon.Valieva's positive drug test from an event in December put her participation in doubt, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that she could compete while officials conduct a full investigation. If Valieva finishes in the top three, the International Olympic Committee has said there will be no medals ceremony. The Russians have a chance to sweep the top three spots, with Anna Shcherbakova second and Alexandra Trusova fourth after the short program.Valieva's free skate is to Maurice Ravel's “Bolero” — a popular skating tune that ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean famously performed to at the Sarajevo Games in 1984.Alpine skiingMikaela Shiffrin geared up for the Olympic Alpine combined by setting the fastest time in a downhill training session on Wednesday.The two-time Olympic champion so far has failed to win a medal at the Beijing Games, skiing out in the giant slalom and the slalom — the two events she has gold medals in — and finishing ninth in the super-G and 18th in Tuesday’s downhill.Next up is the combined race, which adds the times from one downhill run and one slalom run.Shiffrin is the world champion in combined and also won silver in the event at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.The 26-year-old Shiffrin is far less experienced in the downhill but finished Wednesday’s training session 0.93 seconds ahead of Wendy Holdener of Switzerland. CurlingAmerican John Shuster and the defending Olympic curling champions won a last-chance match to qualify for the playoffs at the Beijing Olympics. They beat Denmark 7-5 to keep their hopes of a repeat gold medal alive.The Americans will play Britain in the semifinals later Thursday night. Reigning silver medalist Sweden will meet Canada, which finished fourth a year ago.Four years after winning five straight elimination games to take gold -- just the second Olympic curling medal in U.S. history -- Shuster’s foursome was again in a desperate position.This time there was a twist, though: Even with a loss, they could have made the playoffs if Italy beat Norway. (The Americans beat Norway 7-6 in the round-robin to claim the tiebreaker.)In the end, Italy lost. The Americans needed to win, and they did.SpeedskatingBrittany Bowe already made a big contribution to the U.S. medal haul when she gave up her spot in the 500 meters so teammate Erin Jackson could compete. Jackson then won the event.Bowe, a fine skater in her own right, finished 10th in the 1,500 and 16th in the 500. She is the world record holder in the 1,000, which she'll compete in early Thursday morning.Also of noteEileen Gu of China, one of the stars of these Olympics, competes in qualifying for the freestyle halfpipe. The men's aerials final is also set for Wednesday night.

American snowboarder Shaun White, the defending Olympic champion in halfpipe with three gold medals, will close out his Olympic career in the event's finals on Thursday. He recently announced that he will retire following the conclusion of the 2022 Winter Olympics.Another top Olympic competitor from the United States, Mikaela Shiffrin, hopes for a better outcome on Day 7 of the Olympics after not finishing her first two events. She’s competing in the super-G, which she has never attempted before at an Olympics. But she has won medals in the event before at World Championships.And Team USA’s Kristen Santos, Maame Biney and Corinne Stoddard will compete in the 1000m short track semifinals. Overall, medals will be awarded in seven events on Thursday and early Friday. Check below for a list of livestreams. But first, here is a round-up on top moments from Day 6.Team USA star figure skater Nathan Chen and snowboarder Chloe Kim, the favorites for their events at the 2022 Winter Olympics, both won gold medals. Later, the U.S. won gold in the Olympic debut of freestyle skiing’s mixed team aerials. How to watch the Olympics for events happening Thursday and early Friday.Here is a list of livestreams and Team USA Olympians to watch for in the events.NBC network Winter Olympics livestreamsWatch NBC Daytime coverage starting at 2 p.m. ETCoverage of the team relay in luge, men's cross final in snowboarding and the women's 10km race in cross-country skiing.Watch NBC Primetime coverage starting at 8 p.m. ETCoverage of the mixed team aerials final in freestyle skiing, the final for the men's halfpipe in snowboarding (live), the women's super-G race in Alpine skiing (live) and more. Event livestreams on Thursday8:05 p.m. ET | Curling men’s round robin: Great Britain vs. USA. (Watch for John Shuster)8:30 p.m. ET | Skeleton: Women’s skeleton heats 1 and 2. (Watch for Katie Uhlaender)8:30 p.m. ET (MEDAL EVENT) | Snowboarding: Men’s halfpipe final. (Watch for Shaun White). 11 p.m. ET (MEDAL EVENT) | Alpine skiing: Women’s super-G. (Watch for Mikaela Shiffrin and Keely Cashman, who is from Stawberry.)11:10 pm. ET | Hockey women’s quarterfinals: USA vs. Czech Republic. Event livestreams early Friday1 a.m. ET | Curling women’s round robin: USA vs. China. (Watch for Tabitha Peterson)2 a.m. ET (MEDAL EVENT) | Cross-country skiing: Men’s 15km classical. (Watch for Gus Schumacher, JC Schoonmaker)3 a.m. ET (MEDAL EVENT) | Speed skating: Men's 10000m.4 a.m. ET (MEDAL EVENT) | Biathlon: Women’s 7.5km sprint. (Watch for Susan Dunklee, Clare Egan and Deedra Irwin)6 a.m. ET | Short track: Women’s 1000m finals, men’s 500m heats and 5000m relay semis. 7:20 a.m. ET (MEDAL EVENT) | Men's skeleton heats 3 and 4. Here’s where things stand on the Winter Olympics medal count