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US Olympic Speedskating 2018: Updated Predictions, Team Schedule and Odds

The United States is hoping to end an eight-year medal drought in speedskating during the second week of competition in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Hope remains that the task can be achieved at the 2018 Winter Olympics, especially after the short-track team ended its dry spell of the same length on Saturday.

Seven medal events are left on the schedule, including the mass start discipline that makes its Olympic debut at the conclusion of the competition.

The best opportunity to claim a medal in South Korea could come in the mass start, which features an opening like the ones we normally see in short-track speed skating.