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A win or a tie in regulation in that game will guarantee the Americans' advance to the quarterfinals.
For NPR News, I'm Steve Fetterman in Milan.
Jordan Stolz came here with hopes of possibly winning four gold medals.
He is now halfway there after winning the 500-meter event.
Stolz came through with an Olympic record time of 33.77 seconds.
That was just 11 one-hundredths of a second better than his main rival, Janine de Boe, from the Netherlands.
The two were together in the same pairing, making it essentially a gold medal match race.
It's the second time here in Italy that Stolz has beaten Dubot.
Earlier, he edged him in the 1,000-meter event.
The 21-year-old American is set to compete two more times in the 1,500-meter race and the mass start.
For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Milan.
It is without doubt one of the biggest shocks in Olympic history.
Ilya Malinin was virtually given the gold medal before the Olympics.
This was supposed to be a coronation, but he just had a horrible free skate.
He completed only three of his seven planned quadruple jumps.
And when it was over, he didn't win gold.
He didn't win silver or bronze.
The gold medal goes to Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan.