A meeting that was to have taken place between Vice President Pence and representatives of North Korea during the Winter Olympic Games fell apart when Pyongyang suddenly backed out, the State Department says.

The meeting, between Pence and Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and Kim Yong Nam, North Korea’s nominal head of state, was to have taken place on Feb. 10 during the vice president’s three-day visit to the Olympic venue.

However, “At the last minute, DPRK [North Korean] officials decided not to go forward with the meeting,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statment.

“The Vice President was ready to take this opportunity to drive home the necessity of North Korea abandoning its illicit ballistic missile and nuclear programs,” Nauert said.

As we reported earlier this month, the vice president had left open the possibility of such a meeting, but Nauert’s remarks on Tuesday were the first official acknowledgement that one had been in the works.

Two days before the meeting was to take place, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry publicly denied there was any such plan, saying: “We are not going to use such a sports festival as the Winter Olympics as a political lever. There is no need to do so.”

NPR reported on Feb. 10 that Pence was drawing criticism for his “cold demeanor toward the North Koreans” at the games.

And, in the days leading up to the Olympics, the vice president had warned that Pyongyang was trying to “hijack the message and imagery” of the games for its own propaganda.

According to The Washington Post:

“The North Korean decision to withdraw from the meeting came after Pence used his trip to denounce the North’s nuclear ambitions and announce the ‘toughest and most aggressive’ sanctions yet against the regime, while also taking steps to further solidify the U.S. alliance with Japan and South Korea.

The cancellation also came as Kim Jong Un, through his sister, invited South Korean President Moon Jae-in to Pyongyang to begin talks ‘soon’— a development that would be likely to cause consternation in Washington, where the Trump administration has been leading a campaign to put ‘maximum pressure’ on the Kim regime to give up its nuclear program. Moon said through a spokesman that he would try to make the visit to the North.”

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Maia and Alex Shibutani rose to win a bronze medal in ice dance at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Tuesday, turning in an artful routine named “Paradise.”

Canadian legends Tess Virtue and Scott Moir won gold, followed by France’s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron with silver.

“This was an incredible ice-dance event and to know we gave it our very best means everything,” Maia Shibutani, 23, said afterwards.

The sister and brother – a.k.a. the Shib Sibs – had been in fourth place after the short dance portion of the competition. They laid it all on the line today, in hopes of reaching the podium —- and they came away with their second bronze medal of these Winter Games, the U.S. having placed third in the team event.

“It feels like gold. It’s unbelievable,” Alex Shibutani, 26, said. “I am so proud of the way we fought through this week and the season. We are so emotional.”

Skating skills, choreography, and drama: Those are three hallmarks of ice dancing – and they’ve been in evidence over the past two days at the Gangneung Ice Arena.

Look no further than the French pair of Papadakis and Cizeron, who were making headlines for all the wrong reasons, after the collar on Papadakis’ costume became unfastened during their performance on Monday. The “wardrobe malfunction” exposed her breast on live TV – an experience that Papadakis called her “worst nightmare.”

The French duo’s short-program score didn’t seem to suffer, and they proved they had recovered their composure by turning in a strong and stirring performance — earning the highest score ever in an Olympics free dance on Tuesday (South Korea is 14 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Time).

Their score of 205.28 combined points put Papadakis and Cizeron comfortably past the Shibutanis 192.59 points, and seemingly within striking distance of Virtue and Moir.

But then the Canadian pair took the ice, and they delivered the uniquely captivating, athletic and sensual performance that has made them stars. Skating to music from “Moulin Rouge,” they earned a final combined score of 206.07.

As of today, Virtue and Moir are the most successful figure skaters in Olympic history, with five medals (including three gold medals).

When asked about the imposing task of moving into medal contention in an event that ranks by cumulative score, Alex Shibutani said, “We believed in ourselves. We felt that our short dance was amazing. So there was no reason to be concerned about the score.”

The Shibutanis were briefly in first place after their free dance program, before the other top contenders claimed spots on the podium. The siblings finished one spot ahead of fellow Americans Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, who are in their first Olympics in South Korea. With Madison Chock and Evan Bates in ninth place, all of the American pairs finished in the top 10.

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The U.S. women’s ice hockey team dismantled Finland in their semifinals matchup at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Monday, scoring goals early and often and claiming a spot in the gold medal game.

The U.S. team scored two goals in each of the first two periods; a pair of scores came in less than one minute in the second period.

Gigi Marvin set the tone just minutes into the game, scoring on assists from Meghan Duggan and Amanda Pelkey. Near the end of the first period, Dani Cameranesi scored unassisted — the first of her two goals today.

From there, the rout was on, with Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson scoring while the U.S. enjoyed a two-player advantage during a power play, and Hilary Knight adding another goal just 34 seconds later, during a one-player power play. It was the first goal of the tournament for Knight, a forward who’s one of the best American players; she had previously assisted on goals.

The U.S. took 38 shots, to 14 for Finland.

The Americans will play in the gold medal game on Thursday, Feb. 22. The final match start will start at 1:10 p.m. in Korea – 11:10 p.m. ET and 8:10 PT in the continental U.S.

With the win, the U.S. set up another possible showdown with Canada, the winners of every Olympic gold medal since the U.S. won the first women’s tournament back in 1998. The rivals have repeatedly faced off to decide Olympic and world championships over the past 20 years.

The Canadians play the Olympic Athletes from Russia team on Monday, at 9:10 p.m. Korean time 7:10 a.m. ET).

Canada defeated the U.S. 2-1 last Thursday, in group play. The Russian team bounced back from losses to both Canada and the U.S. to dismiss Switzerland, 6-2, in the quarterfinals. The loser of the Canada-OAR game will face Finland in the bronze medal match.

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Gus Kenworthy and Nick Goepper were two of three American athletes on the slopestyle skiing podium four years ago in the Sochi Winter Games. Slopestyle, an event in which skiers perform a variety of tricks and jumps down a mixed-terrain course, made its debut as an Olympic game there.

Goepper gave another solid performance in Pyeongchang. After two shakey runs, Goepper earned a 93.60 and managed to reach the podium, winning silver. Kenworthy, who posted an Instagram video of a hematoma on his hip after falling on Friday, placed 12th. The field started with 30 skiers.

Goepper was joined at the podium by Norway’s Oystein Braaten, who won gold, and Canada’s Alex Beaulieu-Marchand, who took bronze.

Kenworthy, a 26-year-old British-born athlete from Telluride, Colo., who has also competed in the halfpipe, won silver in the 2014 slopestyle.

He is one of two openly gay men — the other is Adam Rippon — representing the United States at Pyeongchang. “I am more open with everyone in my life, and I think it just translates into me being able to ski a little bit more freely and not have so much to focus on and worry about,” the athlete told Reuters in January.

Days before the slopestyle event, Kenworthy broke his right thumb during practice. He quipped that the injury excused him from shaking Vice President Pence’s hand. The vice president led the U.S. delegation and visited Pyeongchang the previous weekend.

“To have someone leading the delegation that’s directly attacked the LGBT community … it just seems like a bad fit,” the athlete told Ellen DeGeneres on her talk show. “I feel like the Olympics is all about inclusion and people coming together.”

Goepper, a 23-year-old from Lawrenceburg, Ind., won bronze in 2014. He began skiing at age 5 and sold candy bars to pay for his ski passes.

The athlete told Peoplethis month about a battle with anxiety and depression after winning a bronze medal in Sochi. He said his decision to speak out about his mental health needs “really comes down to just me being comfortable with who I am.”

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The angst of teenage life can be overwhelming. The angst of being an adult and watching teenagers — some of whom aren’t old enough to vote in the U.S. — complete amazing feats of human strength and mental fortitude is … well, also overwhelming. An impressive number of adolescents are not only competing in the 2018 Winter Games. In some cases, they’re winning.

American Chloe Kim, 17, grabbed headlines and hearts with her outstanding gold medal performance in the women’s snowboarding halfpipe. NPR’s Bill Chappell reports that Kim is already considered one of the best snowboarders in history, and her tenacious commitment to scoring well, but also enjoying herself bodes well for her future Olympic prospects.

” ‘Going to my third run I knew I had the gold,’ Kim said. ‘But I also knew I wouldn’t be satisfied taking the gold and knowing that I hadn’t put down my best. That third run was for me — to put down the best run I could do.’ “

Kim also shared her humanity — and her high metabolism — in a few tweets.

Another American, speed skater Maame Biney, turned 18 a few weeks before arriving in South Korea. Biney came to the U.S. when she was 5 and is the first African-American woman to qualify for a U.S. Olympic speedskating team. Biney has an immensely positive spirit.

She had second and fourth place finishes in qualifying races earlier in the week. Biney is ranked second ahead of the 1,500 meter heat scheduled for Saturday night, Korea time.

The baby of Team USA is figure skater Vincent Zhou, who turns 18 in October. The California native had an exuberant performance on Saturday morning in South Korea. While he finished in sixth place, it was clear from his reaction that he was thrilled with his free skate performance. Social media responses highlighted great anticipation of American medal potential in Beijing 2022.

Zhou and teammate Nathan Chen skated early and then waited anxiously through the men’s free skate on Saturday to see if they could hold their podium positions. Chen, 18, came in to the free skate after a disappointing 17th place in the men’s short program, and wowed the crowd with a historic six quad jumps. But after explosive programs from Japan’s Yuruzu Hanya and Shoma Uno and Spain’s Javier Fernandez, Chen and Zhou landed in fifth and sixth place, respectively.

Holding down the title of the youngest competitor across the Winter Games is Wu Meng, competing with the People’s Republic of China for the freestyle skiing competition in halfpipe. She’s one of many 15-year-olds who made it to Pyeongchang. Wu worked her way up through competitions in the U.S., New Zealand and China, ranking higher each time. The women’s ski halfpipe competition begins Monday.

Other teen Olympic titans include, via NBCSports:

• Jennie-Lee Burmansson (15) — Ski Slopestyle (Sweden)
• Zhang Kexin (15) — Ski Halfpipe (China)
• Alina Zagitova (15) — Figure Skating (Russia)
• Kim Hanul (15) — Figure Skating (South Korea)
• Hiroaki Kunitake (15) — Snowboard Big Air/Slopestyle (Japan)
• Reira Iwabuchi (16) — Snowboard Big Air/Slopestyle (Japan)
• Alice Robinson (16) — Alpine Skiing (New Zealand)
• Ayaulum Amrenova (16) — Moguls (Kazakhstan)
• Nico Porteous (16) — Ski Halfpipe (New Zealand)

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Mikaela Shiffrin overcame both delays and some of the best skiers in the world to claim her first gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics, winning the giant slalom. The weather finally cooperated, with sunny, clear skies over the Yongpyong Alpine Center in Pyeongchang.

Norway’s Ragnhild Mowinckel won silver, 0.39 behind Shiffrin’s combined time of 2:20.02.

It was a hard-won medal, on a day where 20 racers crashed out of the course. Shiffrin set herself up for a podium finish by turning in a time of 1:10.82 on her first run of the day, taking second place just 0.2 seconds behind Italy’s Manuela Moelgg. Another Italian racer, Federica Brignone, trailed Shiffrin by 0.09 seconds.

“The conditions are great, the weather is beautiful, and it’s a pleasure to be skiing today,” Shiffrin told reporters after her first run.

Shiffrin continued:

“But I also feel like I can go a little bit harder and you know, there’s nothing to hold back for in the second run. The nice thing about the Olympics is, you don’t hold back. And I’m excited to see what I can do.”

Shiffrin gave this rundown of the course, part of which was somewhat obscured by shadows from nearby trees:

“The top is kind of like a false flat. You just, you can push into it so hard it feels like, perfect. And then on the middle, it got a little bit more chattery. There’s some sort of micro-terrain that, especially when it’s a little darker, you can’t see it that well. It seems like it’s been tossing everybody around a little bit more.”

On her first run, Shiffrin had sped through the first half of the course, but she lost a little time on the bottom portion; in her second run, she started slightly slower than some of the other skiers — but she blazed through the rest of the course, turning in a time of 1:09.20 to put her atop the leader board. Only a handful of skiers were faster than Shiffrin in their second runs; none of them had top-five times in their first attempts.

“I don’t know when it was, at some point today after the first run I thought, like, ‘I can really win this’. I just tried to hang on to that feeling and then focus on my skiing a bit,” Shiffrin said, in remarks transcribed by the Olympics’ news service.

Like Shiffrin, Brignone went down the hill in under 1:10.00 on her second run – and Brignone’s combined time kept her in third place for a bronze medal. Her fellow Italian Moelgg lost her No. 1 spot, and a place on the podium, after a slow second run. She finished eighth.

After Shiffrin set the bar, her Olympic race turned into a waiting game, and she settled in at the scoring area at the bottom of the course to see if any other skier could beat her time.

As racers tried to carve tenths of a second out of the course, the number of DNF — did not finish — statistics piled up. They included two women who might have challenged Shiffrin: Austria’s Stephanie Brunner and Switzerland’s Lara Gut. France’s Tessa Worley, another contender, was undone by a slow first run that left her with too much time to recover.

The course in Pyeongchang comprised 49 turning gates and a vertical drop of 400 meters (1,312 feet). The race began at an altitude of 1365 meters (4,478 feet).

At the Sochi Games of 2014, Shiffrin finished in fifth place in the giant slalom. She won gold in the slalom – an event in which she’ll race tomorrow (Friday morning in Korea, and Thursday night in the continental U.S.).

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Updated at 10:15 p.m. ET

Shaun White pulled off a gold-medal comeback in the halfpipe, and Japan’s Ayumu Hirano won silver on the strength of a phenomenal second run.

CORRECTION: An early version of this story reported that White had won silver — that was reported after the second run had completed. On his third run, White won gold.

White missed out on a medal back in 2014, when he was hurt at the Sochi Games. He’s now the only snowboarder ever to win three gold medals at the Olympics. And he did it by winning the 100th gold medal for the U.S.

Held one day after American Chloe Kim dominated the women’s halfpipe, the men’s final was a contest between White, Hirano, and Australia’s Scotty James — who came out strong on his first run, scoring a 92.

White stepped up next with an incredible array of tricks, height and precision, soaring above the halfpipe and landing cleanly. The judges rewarded him with a 94.25 — and that was nearly his best score of the day, after a stumble marred his second run.

White began celebrating immediately, ripping his helmet off and throwing it, his arms raised above his head. But he would need another strong run to claim gold.

He managed that in the third run, landing a score of 97.75 points.

Hirano, who’s just 19, turned in a fantastic second run for his best score of 95.25, getting 18 feet above the rim of the halfpipe and landing his tricks cleanly — including back-to-back tricks with 1440-degree spins.

White set a high bar in qualifying, posting a high score of 98.5. It turned out he needed that score to go into the finals on top – he beat James by less than two points.

That gave White the advantage of dropping in last, knowing what he had to do to match his rivals. In the end, he pulled off a gold-medal performance to complete his strong comeback from the Sochi Games.

Hirano had placed third in qualifying. With his second run, he staked a claim to the podium. It was an impressive comeback for Hirano, who had fallen on his first run and earned only 35.25 points — leaving him in 10th place.

After the Japanese snowboarder’s rousing run, the pressure shifted to James and White. James seemed to take a very deep breath before he set off on his second run. The first section was great — but he couldn’t get a clean landing on one of his final tricks. White came out with energy and speed — but he fell midway through, and mustered only 55 points.

The situation reversed in the third and final run, when White earned a 97.75 and both of his top rivals fell during their attempts.

A scary moment came early in the second run, when Japanese snowboarder Yuto Totsuka fell badly. For several minutes, the crowd looked on as a medical crew attended to him. Totsuka was taken from the course on a stretcher sled and taken to the medical center.

This is the second Olympic medal for Hirano; he won silver in Sochi. He is also the reigning X Games champion in the halfpipe, having won that title last month, in a competition that White skipped.

White led a group of four American snowboarders who qualified for the finals of the men’s halfpipe at Phoenix Snow Park in Pyeongchang; joining him were Ben Ferguson, Chase Josey, and Jake Pates.

Ferguson cleaned up his second run after a fall in the first. And after a strong final run earned him a 90.75, he finished 4th; Josey was 6th and Pates was 8th.

Josey was in third place after the first run, when he earned an 87.75. He fell toward the end of his second run. On that same run, Japan’s Raibu Katayama, cut his run short after landing awkwardly. Katayama had been flying: he soared more than 17 feet above the halfpipe’s rim on one trick.

Pates put down a strong second run, rebounding from a fall in his first attempt. He anxiously awaited the scoring, eyes glued on the board that would tell him if he had earned a shot at the podium. Pates got an 82.25 — not enough for a medal, but a result that made him smile, all the same.

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Chloe Kim blew away the field and the crowd at the Pyeongchang Games in South Korea, winning the gold medal in the women’s snowboard half-pipe. The win ticks another box in the career of Kim, who at 17 is already regarded as one of the best snowboarders in U.S. history.

Kim won with a score of 98.25, in a competition that never saw her trail another snowboarder. Her fellow American Arielle Gold won bronze, and Kelly Clark narrowly missed the podium after sitting in third place for two runs.

“I was tearing up, I wanted to cry,” Kim said of her mindset when she began her third run. “But I didn’t.”

Kim wowed from the start, putting together complicated tricks to begin her first run and leading the field. That got her a 93.75 — good enough to win. But after falling on the third trick of her second run, Kim showed why she’s regarded as the best in the world, flirting with a perfect score in the third run.

Her first-run score would have brought her the gold, but Kim wasn’t satisfied. She wanted to put down a run that met her expectations, she said.

The snowboarder also said that between her second and third runs, she found out that her grandmother — who had never seen her compete — had traveled from Seoul to Pyeongchang watch her.

“This one’s for grams,” Kim recalled thinking, provoking a round of “Awwws” in the post-competition news conference.

Here’s what she did on that epic run: Method; Front 10; Cab 10; Front 9; McTwist; Crippler 7 — that’s according to the list she reeled off at a news conference afterwards.

“Going to my third run I knew I had the gold,” Kim said. “But I also knew I wouldn’t be satisfied taking the gold and knowing that I hadn’t put down my best. That third run was for me — to put down the best run I could do. “

After scoring just below the 100 mark, Kim said the run wasn’t quite perfect — but we’ll note that it was closer to perfection than anything the thousands of spectators and media had ever seen.

Kim also tallied the music she listened to. On the first run: “Paparazzi” by Lady Gaga; for her third, she said, it was “MotorSport,” by Migos, Cardi B, and Nicki Minaj.

Afterwards, Kim was asked about the practice in Pyeongchang of handing winning athletes a stuffed mascot toy rather than a medal after they’ve won. The medal ceremonies at these Winter Games have been held hours after some events.

“I mean, mascot’s really cute,” Kim said. “But just standing on top of the podium” was a special feeling, she added.

China’s Jiayu Liu mounted a challenge to Kim, but it wasn’t quite enough, and she won silver with a high score of 89.75 from her three runs. She secured her spot with a strong second run that had perfect pacing and control in the halfpipe at Phoenix Snow Park.

After a fall like Kim’s in the second run — she slid on her rear after a landing — most snowboarders zig-zag down the half-pipe; some don’t wait for their scores. But Kim pulled a trick at the bottom of her run, suggesting that she means it when she says that she snowboards not to win, but for fun.

All the same, it seems like she’ll keep winning.

Kim has been aiming at the Olympics for a long time. Back in 2014, she couldn’t go to Sochi because she was too young.

“When I couldn’t make the team in Sochi due to my age – it felt like such a long journey,” she said after Monday’s qualifying runs, according to a transcript from the Olympics’ news service. “You know, going from 13 to 17 is such a big time gap. But at the end of the day, I’m here — and I’m so happy.”

Two years ago, Kim became the first woman to land back-to-back 1080 tricks in competition. She’s won big on the World Cup circuit, and at the X Games.

Now she has an Olympic gold medal, in the half-pipe event that was run Tuesday morning in Pyeongchang – that’s Monday night in the U.S.

Her strong qualifying runs meant that Kim had the luxury of going last in the field of 12 snowboarders at Phoenix Snow Park.

Three other Americans joined Kim in the final: Gold, Clark, and Maddie Mastro. For Clark, 34, this was a chance to add to her medal collection – she already has a gold from Salt Lake City in 2002 and bronzes from Vancouver and Sochi.

Kim was not quite two years old when Clark won her first Olympic gold medal – a testament both to Kim’s precociousness and Clark’s talent and resolve.

Gold said it was “bittersweet” to knock Clark out of third place, saying that in addition to admiring Clark as a teammate and athlete, “She’s someone I’ve looked up to ever since I started snowboarding.”

The only thing that could possibly stop Kim’s drive to the podium, it seemed as Tuesday’s event loomed, was the wind — bad conditions had shortened the women’s snowboard slopestyle event one day earlier, and athletes said their performances were affected by the strong gusts. But the weather cooperated, with a clear and sunny sky, moderately cold temperature, and light winds.

In Monday’s two qualifying runs, Kim dominated. She was the only athlete to post scores above 90 points, and one run in particular was a string of perfectly executed tricks. But she still found time to tweet about wanting ice cream.

“Could be down for some ice cream rn,” Kim said on Twitter in the midst of the action.

Later, she told reporters simply, “I want my ice cream.”

Regular mortals are often fascinated by what elite athletes eat to fuel their bodies as they try to do what no one else can. In Pyeongchang, Kim also sent out a word of advice on Monday, about what to eat when you’re nervous.

After admitting she was nervous about the qualifying runs, Kim said, “I also had two churros today and they were pretty bomb so if you ever get nervous go eat a churro.”

By the time Tuesday rolled around, it was all focus.

“Let’s do this thing!” Kim tweeted early this morning.

Chloe Kim’s parents are originally from Seoul, and she said she’s been reconnecting with relatives here in Pyeongchang. Wither her new medal, the celebration will be a family affair. She might even get that ice cream.

Although after her win, Kim said she was starving: “I really want like a burger and some fries, maybe some Hawaiian pizza.”

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U.S. snowboarder Jamie Anderson won the women’s snowboard slopestyle competition at the Winter Olympics in South Korea on Monday, successfully defending the gold medal she won at the Sochi Olympics in 2014.

Anderson won after high winds delayed the competition at Phoenix Snow Park — and the conditions almost wrecked her medal-winning performance.

“I wanted to do a double nine [trick] on my first run and I went for it and realized I wasn’t going to clear the jumps. Thankfully somehow I connected with my lion power and found [my] feet,” Anderson said, in comments transcribed by the Olympics’ news service.

The strong wind also forced a change in format: instead of having three runs to attain a best score, the athletes were given just two tries. It turned out that Anderson, 27, needed only one: her first run netted a score of 83.00 – easily the best of the field, with the other podium finishers scoring below 75 points.

“It’s hard. We have to be so intuitive with the weather, the course, with how you feel,” Anderson said. “I’m just so happy I put one down and I really didn’t think it was going to last over to the second run. I was planning on doing a better run and cleaning everything up, but honestly, I’m ecstatic.”

Canada’s Laurie Blouin won silver, and Finland’s Enni Rukajarvi won bronze. Two of Anderson’s fellow Americans in the field, Jessika Jenson and Haley Langland, finished in the top six. Julia Marino was 11th.

“I’m feeling so happy,” Anderson said. “I’ve gone through so much this last year just preparing for the Games and defending the gold is definitely not an easy position to be in. I had a lot of pressure and I’m just so proud of myself. It was really tough conditions today and a lot of people were struggling.”

Anderson has bounced back from several injuries since her win in Sochi, including a broken elbow she suffered last year.

With the win, Anderson joins Red Gerard as America’s two Olympic gold medalists in slopestyle; the U.S. also swept the event in Sochi, where it was held for the first time at the Winter Olympics.

“I could have cried seeing my dad and mom and all my siblings, and family and friends being so happy,” Anderson said. “You know, that’s what it’s all about. I don’t think we can do anything without the support of each other and it’s not just me, it’s all these people around me that keep my spirits lifted and help me to be my best self.”

Anderson is now tied with four other athletes as the only snowboarders to win two gold medals at the Olympic Winter Games. That list includes Shaun White, who will try to add to his medal total here in Pyeongchang.

In addition to the shorter final, the snowboarders’ two qualifying runs were canceled, as organizers tried to adjust the crowded schedule. Those qualifying runs had originally been scheduled for Sunday afternoon — but high winds changed that plan.

Windy conditions in Pyeongchang have forced the postponement of events at other venues as well, including the women’s giant slalom and men’s downhill.

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