Go Time! | Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics

Even though the opening ceremonies don’t air until tonight, the 2014 Winter Olympic games have begun! Here are a few highlights from Day 1 for team USA.

1. The United States is tied for fifth following a day on the ice during the inaugural team figure skating competition. U.S. champions, and Colorado’s own, Jeremy Abbott and the pairs team of Marissa Castelli and Simon Shnapir both had bad jumps and falls. Only the top five teams will move on to the free skates.

2. California’s Jamie Anderson’s road to gold has some serious competition. America’s best female snowboarder posted a 93.50 in her first run in the inaugural slopestyle event – good enough to give her a direct pass to the finals – but it wasn’t enough to beat Austria’s Anna Gasser, who posted a 95.50. Anderson didn’t go on a second run and she and teammate Karly Shorr, also from California, will get to watch the semifinals on Sunday while gearing up for the final rounds. No American men automatically qualified for the finals, but will have one final chance in the semifinals on Saturday.

3. American mogul skier Hannah Kearney started her gold medal defense with a top score of 76.83 percent to clinch her spot in Saturday’s finals. Kearney has endured multiple major injuries during her career, including breaking two ribs and bruising her liver during a training crash in October 2012. Kearney, who can be spotted on the course by trademark pigtails hanging out of the back of her helmet, is trying to become the first freestyle skier to win multiple gold medals. She’s off to a pretty good start.

4. United States downhill skier Bode Miller might not have been the man to beat coming into the Sochi Games, but after posting the fastest time in training on Thursday, he definitely opened up some eyes. Miller zoomed down the course in 2 minutes, 7.75 seconds. This was the same course where Miller injured a knee a couple years ago and was forced to miss all of last year because of surgery. Miller, who was once known for his Olympic partying, is in his fifth Games and told media he’s less nervous and less excited than previous Games. But, he said, that just makes him more focused on winning.

–recap by Graham Watson, editor of Dr. Saturday on Yahoo Sports.