Olympic Results 2014: Full Analysis of Day 6 Games and Medal Tally

Day 6 of the 2014 Winter Olympics saw Germany continue its luge domination, America continue to hoard slopestyle medals and also a premature end to the career of a figure skating legend. 

Let's start with the American perspective.    

If it wasn't for the new Olympic events at the 2014 Sochi Games, Team USA would be battling severe disappointment. Thursday's action of the winter extravaganza continued this trend, as Team USA swept the podium in men's ski slopestyle medals. 

Gero Breloer/Associated Press

American skiers Joss Christensen (gold), Gus Kenworthy (silver) and Nicholas Goepper (bronze) took the honors.

Christensen was the clear class of the skiers. He posted a practically flawless first run that was good for a score of 95.80. With each rider getting two runs, that score held up throughout the competition. 

In fact, Christensen was the only skier to come relatively close to it as he posted a 93.80 on his second run. 

American Bobby Brown was also in the competition, but he was unable to medal.

Still, it was a banner day for the U.S. and the sport. Silver medalist Kenworthy touched on this in a quote provided by Lindsay H. Jones of USA Today: 

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I mean it's been incredible to showcase our sport to the world. We have an awesome course, beautiful weather and it was one of the best slopestyle competitions we've ever had. I really couldn't be prouder.

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With the gold in this event, the Americans have now taken three of the four golds from the slopestyle events at these games. That is 75 percent of the Americans' gold medals for these games. 

Take a look: 

The non-slopestyle gold came from Kaitlyn Farrington in the women's halfpipe, which is certainly a newer Olympic sport. It is in the more traditional sports where the Americans have struggled. That theme continued on Day 6. 

For instance, the American women's speedskating group is stacked, and the 1,000-meter figured to be their strongest event, as NBCSports.com's Nick Zaccardi pointed out:

Friends and rivals Heather Richardson and Brittany Bowe were expected to be battling it out for the gold medal. Although that rivalry did materialize, the two ultimately competed for seventh as Richardson won that battle and Bowe came in eighth. They were over a second off the winning time of China's Hong Zhang. 

Meanwhile, the Dutch continued their mastery of speedskating by taking the bronze and silver in that event. 

Thanks to luge domination, Germany is beginning to run away with the race for the most medals. The Germans pushed their gold haul to an impressive seven. 

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Germany prevailed for gold over host Russia by 0.030 seconds in the team luge competition. 

The only surprise there was that it was that close. The German team featured the gold-medal winners from the men's, women's and pairs competition with Felix Loch, Natalie Geisenberger and Tobias Arlt and Tobias Wendl. 

Meanwhile, in what may have been the day's most anticipated event, the men's figure skating competition got underway with the short program.

While warming up for his routine, 31-year-old Russian star Evgeni Plushenko tweaked his troublesome back and decided, as the Chicago Sun-Times tweeted, it was time to call it a career:

This opened the door for Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu, 19, to steal the show. CBSSports.com's Will Brinson is convinced Hanyu is one to watch for years to come:

He was spectacular while setting a world record of 101.45 points, and is now in a strong position to become the first ever men's Olympic figure skating gold medalist from Japan. 

Here are all the results for Day 6 of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Men's Biathlon Individual 20-Kilometer Race

Place	Country	Name	Shooting	Total	Time
1	FRA	Martin Fourcade	0-1-0-0	1	49.31.7
2	GER	Erik Lesser	0-0-0-0	0	49:43.9
3	RUS	Evegeniy Garanichev	0-1-0-0	1	50:06.2
4	AUT	Simon Eder	0-1-0-0	1	50:09.5
5	AUT	Dominik Landertinger	0-0-0-0	0	50:14.2
6	FRA	Jean Guillaume Beatrix	0-0-0-1	1	50:15.5
7	NOR	Emil Hegle Svendsen	0-0-1-0	1	50:30.3
8	USA	Lowell Bailey	0-1-0-0	1	50:57.4
9	UKR	Serhiy Semenov	1-0-0-0	1	51:07.9
10	GER	Daniel Boehm	0-1-0-0	1	51:09.4

Women's Cross-Country 10-Kilometer Race

Place	Country	Name	Time
1	POL	Justyna Kowalczyk	28:17.8
2	SWE	Charlotte Kalla	28:36.2
3	NOR	Therese Johaug	28:46.1
4	FIN	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen	28:48.1
5	NOR	Marit Bjoergen	28:51.2
6	GER	Stefanie Boehler	29:04.3
7	RUS	Natalia Zhukova	29:15.5
8	FIN	Kerttu Niskanen	29:16.7
9	NOR	Heidi Weng	29:28.2
10	FIN	Krista Lahteenmaki	29:36.0

Men's Curling

Winner	Score	Loser
Great Britain (4-1)	5 - 3	United States (1-3)
Russia (1-4)	7 - 6	Switzerland (1-4)
Sweden (4-1)	5 - 4	Norway (3-1)
Canada (3-2)	7 - 6	Denmark (2-3)

Women's Curling

Winner	Score	Loser
Great Britain (2-2)	8 - 7	China (2-2)
Canada (4-0)	8 - 5	Denmark (0-5)
Sweden (3-1)	9 - 8	Switzerland (3-1)
Canada (5-0)	8 - 5	Switzerland (3-2)
United States (1-4)	8 - 6	Japan (2-2)
Korea (2-2)	8 - 4	Russia (2-3)

Men's Figure Skating

Place	Country	Name	Score
1	JPN	Yuzuru Hanyu	101.45
2	CAN	Patrick Chan	97.52
3	ESP	Javier Fernandez	86.98
4	JPN	Daisuke Takahashi	86.40
5	GER	Peter Liebers	86.04
6	USA	Jason Brown	86.00
7	FRA	Brian Joubert	85.84
8	CHN	Han Yan	85.66
9	KAZ	Denis Ten	84.06
10	SWE	Alexander Majorov	83.81

Men's Freestyle Skiing Slopestyle

Place	Country	Name	Top Score
1	USA	Joss Christensen	95.80
2	USA	Gus Kenworthy	93.60
3	USA	Nick Goepper	92.40
4	NOR	Andreas Haatveit	91.80
5	GBR	James Woods	86.60
6	SWE	Henrik Harlaut	84.40
7	NOR	Aleksander Aurdal	81.80
8	AUS	Russell Henshaw	80.40
9	USA	Bobby Brown	78.40
10	NOR	Oystein Braaten	66.40

Men's Hockey

Winner	Score	Loser
Finland (1-0)	8 - 4	Austria (0-1)
United States (1-0)	7 - 1	Slovakia (0-1)
Canada (1-0)	3 - 1	Norway (0-1)
Russia (1-0)	5 - 2	Slovenia (0-1)

Women's Hockey

Winner	Score	Loser
Germany (1-2)	4 - 0	Japan (0-3)
Russia (3-0)	3 -1	Sweden (2-1)

Luge Team Relay

Place	Country	Time
1	Germany	2:45.649
2	Russia	2:46.679
3	Latvia	2:47.295
4	Canada	2:47.395
5	Italy	2:47.420
6	United States	2:47.555
7	Miriam Kastlunger	2:48.477
8	Natalia Wojtusciszyn	2:49.753
9	Vendula Kotenova	2:49.805
10	Slovakia	2:50:165

Women's Short Track 500-Meter Race

Place	Country	Name	Top Time
1	CHN	Jianrou Li	43.486
2	ITA	Arianna Fontana	43.405
3	KOR	Seung-Hi Park	43.392
4	CHN	Qiuhong Liu	43.478
5	CHN	Kexin Fan	43.288
6	NED	Jorien Ter Mors	43.572
7	CAN	Marianne St. Gelais	43.595
8	GBR	Elise Christie	43.402
9	CAN	Valerie Maltais	43.550
10	KOR	Alang Kim	43.673

Women's Skeleton

Rank	Country	Name	Total Time
1	GBR	Elizabeth Yarnold	1:56.89
2	USA	Noelle Pikus-Pace	1:57.33
3	RUS	Elena Nikitina	1:57.44
4	USA	Katie Uhlaender	1:57.58
5	RUS	Olga Potylitsina	1:57.75
6	RUS	Maria Orlova	1:57.99
7	GER	Anja Huber	1:58.30
8	CAN	Sarah Reid	1:58.31
9	GER	Sophia Griebel	1:58.63
10	GER	Marion Thees	1:58.67

Women's Speedskating 1,000-Meter Race

Place	Country	Name	Time
1	CHN	Hong Zhang	1:14.02
2	NED	Irene Wust	1:14.69
3	NED	Margot Boer	1:14.90
4	RUS	Olga Fatkulina	1:15.08
5	NED	Lotee Van Beek	1:15:10
6	NED	Marrit Leenstra	1:15.15
7	USA	Heather Richardson	1:15.23
8	USA	Brittany Bowe	1:15.47
9	CAN	Christine Nesbitt	1:15.62
10	CZE	Karolina Erbanova	1:15.74