{"id":472499,"date":"2026-02-16T19:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472499\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T19:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:49:09","slug":"olympics-ice-hockey-united-states-beat-sweden-to-reach-womens-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472499\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics-Ice hockey-United States beat Sweden to reach women\u2019s final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Amy Tennery<\/p>\n<p>MILAN, Feb 16 (Reuters) \u2013 The United States beat Sweden 5-0 \u200bin the women\u2019s \u200cice hockey semi-finals on Monday to reach the Winter Olympics gold medal game.<\/p>\n<p>The two-times \u200cchampions \u200bwere the \u2060favourites heading into \u2060Milan and they put on another convincing performance at Santagiulia arena, where \u200bCayla Barnes scored in the first period, \u2060while Taylor Heise, \u2060Abbey Murphy, veteran \u200bKendall Coyne Schofield and Hayley \u200bScamurra notched second-period goals.<\/p>\n<p>They will \u200cplay the winner of the semi-final between defending Olympic champions Canada \u2060and Switzerland for the gold on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden, who won their \u2060last \u200cmedal with the silver \u2060in 2006, beat \u200bCzech \u200cRepublic in the \u200bquarter-finals but \u2060ran out of firepower against the world champions United States.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Amy Tennery in MilanEditing by \u200bChristian Radnedge)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Amy Tennery MILAN, Feb 16 (Reuters) \u2013 The United States beat Sweden 5-0 \u200bin the women\u2019s \u200cice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-472499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}