American speedskater crashes into opponents during Winter Olympics heat

American speedskater Brandon Kim attempted to get Team USA into the finals of the abbreviated way 500-meter lawsuit astatine the Winter Olympics connected Monday, but was progressive successful an unfortunate incident.

Kim was racing against the Netherlands’ Jens van ‘t Wout, Ukraine’s Oleh Handei and Uzbekistan’s Daniil Eybog successful the seventh heat. As the radical was coming astir 1 of the archetypal turns, Kim, Handei and Eybog each crashed. Van ‘t Wout ended up finishing up of the three.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM

Brandon Kim of the United States, Oleh Handei of Ukraine and Daniil Eybog of Uzbekistan clang into the obstruction successful the heats during the men's 500 metre abbreviated way velocity skating astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026.  (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Kim was penalized and did not implicit a thigh successful the race.

The Virginia autochthonal was competing successful his archetypal Winter Olympics for Team USA. He was a prima connected the inferior circuit arsenic helium picked up a bronze successful the World Junior Championships successful 2017.

Kim was besides disqualified from the abbreviated way 1,000-meter heats past week. Van ‘t Wout won the golden successful the event.

OLYMPIC SKI JUMPER DISQUALIFIED FROM EVENT OVER BOOT SIZE

Brandon Kim of the United States, Oleh Handei of Ukraine and Daniil Eybog of Uzbekistan clang successful the heats during the men's 500 metre abbreviated way velocity skating astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026.  (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Team USA inactive has hopes to medal successful the 500-meter lawsuit arsenic Andrew Heo had the fastest clip successful his vigor with a clip of 41.136.

The Americans person recovered the podium hard to get to successful this year’s Olympics. Going into Monday, Team USA has attained 17 full medals but lone 5 gold.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

Brandon Kim of the United States competes successful the men's 1000 metre abbreviated way velocity skating heats astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026.  (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Team USA finished with 25 full medals erstwhile the 2022 Beijing Olympics came to an end. The squad won 9 gold, 9 metallic and 7 bronze that year.

Follow Fox News Digital’s sports sum connected X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.