U.S. Men's hockey overtime win and the Olympic sport that produces the best athletes

美国男子曲棍球加时赛获胜,以及孕育最佳运动员的奥运项目

Up First

2026-02-20

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  • This is a special edition of Up First.

  • We have our gold medal team in Italy and they're here to talk about the big storylines.

  • You'll hear about the big names such as Michaela Schifrin and Jordan Stoles and all things Team USA.

  • I mean, Martinez and you're listening to an audio sneak peek of Up First Winter Games,

  • a new video podcast from NPR during the Olympics.

  • New episodes will post throughout the games at youtube.com slash NPR.

  • Stay with us for a preview of the show.

  • The overtime thriller on the ice as Team USA survives a sudden death face-off against Sweden and skates onto the men's hockey semifinal.

  • MPR's Becky Sullivan was there.

  • Sweden turned the puck over a couple times,

  • which led to these quick breaks for the Americans and of course set up that awesome game winner by Quinn Hughes,

  • which was just like marvelous.

  • The arena went nuts.

  • It was so fun.

  • Handle with care, you've probably seen the stories about Olympic medals breaking.

  • What's causing this glitch in the glory, NPR's Juliana Kim finds out.

  • For a long part of Olympic Games, medals weren't intended to be worn.

  • They were actually just meant to be like in a nice box that you admire from afar, which...

  • I probably do because I break a lot of things.

  • So he says that this is kind of an age-old question of how to make metals wearable.