Photos: What happened on day 3 of the Olympic Games Beijing 2022

Karen Chen, of america, competes within the girls’s staff free skate program throughout the determine skating competitors on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photograph/David J. Phillip)

Grit, glory and gobsmacking feats of limit-pulverizing human efficiency. Visuals from day three of the Olympics Video games Beijing 2022 showcased all three.

Fremont native Karen Chen leads our Monday gallery in a stone-studded costume crafted by her mom, Hsiu-Hui Tseng. Chen illuminated the mother-daughter teamwork that went into the outfit in an Instagram video posted to the Crew USA account:

“She most likely does 90% of the work and I do like 10%, by 10% I inform her, like ‘Oh that appears good or that doesn’t look good,’” Chen mentioned. “She does all of the onerous work. She places blood, sweat and tears into it and I believe my favourite half is that this butterfly … She strategically put the stones and organized them in a method to appear to be a butterfly, as a result of in my free program I’m skating to Butterfly Lover’s Concerto.”

The work that impressed Chen’s butterfly marked costume is taken into account probably the most famend items of Chinese language orchestral music and was written in 1959. It tells the tragic legend of two younger students, additionally referred to as Butterfly Lovers. The unique story is set within the Jap Jin dynasty (265-420 CE). The tune that brings its emotional arc to life served because the soundtrack to Chen’s fourth-place free skate efficiency.

Chen’s end Monday helped carry Crew USA’s determine skating arm to a silver medal, its first within the international sports activities contest.

Beneath are extra images of kids curling on the streets of Beijing, hockey groups combating to attain and defend, Southern California snowboarder Shaun White training forward of his closing Olympic outing, velocity skiers and the race to promote and snatch souvenirs of Bing Dwen Dwen, the official panda mascot of the seasonal athletic video games.

An athlete performs a trick throughout the Girls’s Freestyle Snowboarding Freeski Huge Air Qualification on Day 3 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games at Huge Air Shougang on February 07, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Photograph by Richard Heathcote/Getty Pictures) 

Kids play curling at a Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Reside Website arrange in a park on February 07, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Photograph by Andrea Verdelli/Getty Pictures) 

Ziwei Ren of Crew China celebrates profitable the Gold medal throughout the Males’s 1000m Last A on day three of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games at Capital Indoor Stadium on February 07, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Photograph by Lintao Zhang/Getty Pictures) 

James Crawford of Crew USA skis in his run throughout the Males’s Downhill on day three of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games at Nationwide Alpine Ski Centre on February 07, 2022 in Yanqing, China. (Photograph by Julian Finney/Getty Pictures) 

Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier of Crew United States skate throughout the Pair Skating Free Skating Crew Occasion on day three of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games at Capital Indoor Stadium on February 07, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Photograph by Lintao Zhang/Getty Pictures) 

Dorothea Wierer of Crew Italy skis throughout Girls’s Biathlon 15km Particular person at Nationwide Biathlon Centre on February 07, 2022 in Zhangjiakou, China. (Photograph by Clive Rose/Getty Pictures) 

A person holds the Olympic mascot Bing Dwen Dwen doll which he bought from a retailer promoting 2022 Winter Olympics memorabilia in Beijing, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. The race is on to snap up scarce 2022 Winter Olympics souvenirs. Dolls of mascot Bing Dwen Dwen, a panda in a winter coat, offered out after patrons waited in line in a single day in freezing climate. (AP Photograph/Andy Wong) 

Petra Vlhova of Slovakia makes a flip throughout the first run of the ladies’s big slalom on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, within the Yanqing district of Beijing. Vlhova completed 14th. “One thing was lacking, and I used to be a bit in hassle with the circumstances,” Vlhova mentioned. “I attempted to do my greatest, however it was not sufficient.” (AP Photograph/Alessandro Trovati) 

Emma Soderberg #30 of Crew Sweden misses the puck after a shot by Mulan Kang #17 of Crew China within the first interval throughout the Girls’s Preliminary Spherical Group B match at Wukesong Sports activities Centre on February 07, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Photograph by Music Yanhua/Getty Pictures) 

Suzanne Schulting of Crew Netherlands, Arianna Fontana of Crew Italy, Kim Boutin of Crew Canada and Yuting Zhang of Crew China throughout the Girls’s 500m Last A on day three of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games at Capital Indoor Stadium on February 07, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Photograph by Catherine Ivill/Getty Pictures) 

Dominique Ohaco of Chile competes throughout the girls’s freestyle snowboarding Huge Air qualification spherical of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photograph/Matt Slocum) 

Nana Takagi of Japan competes within the girls’s speedskating 1,500-meter race on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photograph/Ashley Landis) 

United States’ Shaun White trains on the halfpipe course on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. White, the three-time gold medalist who mentioned just lately the Beijing Video games could be his final competitors, begins qualifying for the halfpipe Tuesday. “I actually wish to end my profession strongly alone phrases and put down some strong runs,” White mentioned. “If I might do this, I’ll be very glad.” (AP Photograph/Francisco Seco) 

Ireen Wust of the Netherlands reacts after profitable her warmth and breaking an Olympic document within the girls’s speedskating 1,500-meter race on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing. Her time stood for the gold medal. (AP Photograph/Sue Ogrocki) 

Suvi Minkkinen of Crew Finland skis throughout Girls’s Biathlon 15km Particular person at Nationwide Biathlon Centre on February 07, 2022 in Zhangjiakou, China. (Photograph by Matthias Hangst/Getty Pictures) 

Amos Mosaner, of Italy, throughout the semi-finals spherical of the combined doubles curling match towards on the Beijing Winter Olympics Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photograph/Brynn Anderson)