After a close call in the quarterfinals, Sophie Caldwell advanced as a lucky loser - and adjusted her strategy, going all the way to the final where she finished fourth: "Fourth is always sort of a bittersweet place to get... But this is the best result I’ve had in a long time so I’m really happy with it."
In the final few hundred meters, Pål Golberg stormed ahead of a tiring Teodor Peterson and Alexey Petukhov to win his second career World Cup victory. "It was a crazy final with two falls," he said, "I was bit lucky I could avoid a crash, but luck belongs to sport. Today it was my turn."
The first thing U.S. women's coach Matt Whitcomb tweeted after Saturday's freestyle sprint, the first World Cup since the Olympics: "We are back!" Randall had won another skate sprint to rise to the top of the World Cup sprint standings, and Sophie Caldwell joined her on the podium -- the first time two U.S. women have shared an individual World Cup podium.