What you missed at the Olympics: Americans medal in skiing despite brutal conditions – Yahoo Sports

The Winter Olympics are nearly over, but athletes competing up on the mountains outside of Beijing were dealt with perhaps the worst weather theyve seen so far throughout the Games on Saturday.

Heres everything you missed overnight from the Olympics.

Freestyle skiing survived gusty, frigid conditions in Zhangjikaou on Saturday, and a pair of Americans left the mountain with medals in hand.

David Wise and Alex Ferriera won the silver and bronze medal, respectively, in the freestyle skiing competition on Saturday. Wise finished with a score of 90.75, and Ferreira was just behind him at 86.75.

New Zealands Nico Porteous won the gold medal, and celebrated accordingly with his team on the mountain after.

Temperatures on the mountain felt like minus-12 degrees Fahrenheit while wind increased throughout the competition.

The conditions were so bad, plenty of athletes including American-turned-Great Britain competitor Gus Kenworthy wiped out. Ten of the 12 riders fell at least once during their runs.

Though plenty called for freestyle skiing to be canceled, it went on as scheduled.

The Alpine skiing mixed team event, however, did not.

The weather caused organizers to postpone Saturdays event until Sunday the final day of the Games. There is a chance the event could be canceled.

The event was set to be the last for American star Mikaela Shiffrin at the Games.

Kai Verbij sacrificed his shot for a medal on Friday in the mens 1,000-meter speed skating event, all out of sportsmanship.

The Netherlands skater was matched up with Canadas Laurent Dubreuil in the final run of the competition, and both were trying to beat Verbijs teammate Tim Krol who was leading with a time of 1:07.92.

Yet during their race, Verbij realized that he was well behind Dubreuil. Even though Verbij was in contention for a medal, Dubreuil was 0.73 seconds ahead of the leaders pace.

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So, instead of staying in the race and potentially crashing, Verbij pulled up and let his Canadian counterpart try for gold.

Dubreuil eventually finished in second, but the act of sportsmanship was still incredible.

Check out the race in its entirety here.

"When I exited the inner lane I saw his higher top speed and knew: I have to get up, otherwise I would ruin his race and Im not that kind of a*****e, Verbij said.

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What you missed at the Olympics: Americans medal in skiing despite brutal conditions - Yahoo Sports