If the gold-medal game is tied after 60 minutes, there will be a 20-minute sudden-death period.

The top two teams advance to the gold-medal game.

"When it came down to the gold-medal game," he said, "they did everything to steal the game away from us."

"Three points in a gold-medal game, I never dreamed of," she said.

Then it was up to the Chinese women to press the Americans in the gold-medal game.

Those two were to have played to decide who would meet Japan in the gold-medal game.

The opportunity is the same for both teams: to advance to Sunday's gold-medal game.

Everyone expected, for months, that they would probably meet in the gold-medal game.

He ended his hockey career after the gold-medal game against Finland.

"It's the perfect scenario rolling into the gold-medal game," Smith said.