Your Weekly Olympics Speed Round

🇩🇪 Germany has jumped out to an early gold medal lead in the ongoing Beijing Winter Games. Here’s what else you may have missed:

• Snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis, 36, won Team USA's first gold medal of the Games yesterday in the women’s snowboard cross event.
• Figure skating: American Nathan Chen set a world record in the short program on his way to a gold medal in the individual competition. Separately, 15-year-old Kamila Valiyeva of Russia became the first woman to successfully land not only one, but two quadruple jumps at the Olympics. (Video)
• Shaun White qualified for the halfpipe final that kicks off tonight at 8:30 pm ET; it’ll be the legendary snowboarder’s final competition of his career.

+Mystery abounds: The team figure skating awards ceremony was postponed on short notice Tuesday due to “an emerging issue”; reports have surfaced that a member of the gold-medal-winning Russian Olympic Committee received a positive drug test; the US clinched silver in the event while Japan won bronze and Canada placed fourth.

+Fun fact: Since Russia is technically banned from the Olympics this year, whenever an athlete from the Russian Olympic Committee wins gold, the opening to Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 is played instead of the Russian national anthem.