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OLYMPIC NOTES

By HELENE ELLIOTT

Tara Mounsey, the top-scoring defenseman for the U.S. women’s national hockey team in pre-Olympic play, probably will sit out the team’s Olympic opener against China on Sunday because of a sprained knee.

Mounsey, who played college hockey at Brown, injured her knee Jan. 28. Her status is day to day. She sat out the team’s final pre-Olympic game, a 10-0 rout of Japan on Wednesday at Aqua Wing. Winger Alana Blahoski took some turns on defense in Mounsey’s place and might play there again if Mounsey isn’t able to play.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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