{"id":472713,"date":"2026-02-16T22:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472713\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T22:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:57:08","slug":"u-s-chases-golden-sweep-in-team-pursuit-at-milan-cortina-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472713\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. chases golden sweep in team pursuit at Milan Cortina Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Women’s team pursuit<\/p>\n

Olympic veterans Bowe and Manganello, who aided in the country’s bronze-medal effort in 2018, have lifted the U.S. women into the top 5 globally in each of the last four World Cup seasons. With two medals in three races this year, they secured their second straight top-3 finish.<\/p>\n

Typically, Bowe leads the crew, Manganello rides in the middle, and Greta Myers and Giorgia Birkeland split time as the anchor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Saturday’s quarterfinal, Bowe, Manganello, and Birkeland consistently posted the fourth- or fifth-fastest lap splits<\/a> the whole way through the race, ending in 4th to clinch the last qualifying spot. Their speed began to slip in the final corners, but their synchronicity \u2014 a skill the United States has perfect in both its men’s and women’s trios over the last five years \u2014 kept them in the race. Their final time of 2 minutes, 58.32 seconds, was 3.29 seconds behind leader Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As a unit, they broke the national record<\/a> twice this season.<\/p>\n

The three teams rounding out the semifinals are the three medalists from Beijing: Canada (gold), Japan (silver), and the Netherlands (bronze).<\/p>\n

Canada enters these Games with the world’s top-ranked trio. Ivanie Blondin, Isabelle Weidemann, and Valarie Maltais set a new Olympic record in Beijing and made the podium in all three World Cup races this season (1 gold, 2 silvers).<\/p>\n

Powered by middle-distance icon Miho Takagi, world record-holder Japan also skated to three top-three finishes this season (1 gold, 2 bronze).<\/p>\n

The Netherlands’ Joy Beune, Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong, and Marijke Groenewoud won the 2025 world title in the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women’s team pursuit Olympic veterans Bowe and Manganello, who aided in the country’s bronze-medal effort in 2018, have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,217760,214531,219228,219227,95204,219230,219231,219232,219229,3,2074,214344,42270,21,19,22,20,25,24,219233],"class_list":{"0":"post-472713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brittany-bowe","10":"tag-casey-dawson","11":"tag-emery-lehman","12":"tag-ethan-cepuran","13":"tag-finals","14":"tag-giorgia-birkeland","15":"tag-greta-myers","16":"tag-mens-team-pursuit","17":"tag-mia-manganello","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-semifinals","20":"tag-speed-skating","21":"tag-team-usa","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-womens-team-pursuit"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472713","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=472713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}