• Americans rely on Quinn Hughes’s OT winner

• Mitch Marner seals Canada’s 4-3 overtime win

• Canadians lose star Sidney Crosby to injury

With NHL players returning to the Winter Olympics for the first time since 2014, these Games were expected to be a relative stroll for Canada and USA. However, both star-packed teams struggled in Wednesday’s men’s ice hockey quarter-finals.

Quinn Hughes scored in overtime to put the US past Sweden 2-1 after giving up the tying goal to Mika Zibanejad with 91 seconds left in the third period. Dylan Larkin deflected Jack Hughes’ shot in for the only US goal in regulation.

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© Photograph: Amber Searls/IMAGN IMAGES/Reuters

© Photograph: Amber Searls/IMAGN IMAGES/Reuters

Daniel Terblanche, a security manager with Imvelo Safari Lodges, said no one in Zimbabwe would have come up with the plan.

Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures after being arrested by ICE agents in January

Minnesota and federal authorities are investigating the alleged beating of a Mexican citizen by immigration officers last month, seeking to identify what caused the eight skull fractures that landed the man in the intensive care unit of a Minneapolis hospital.

Investigators from the St Paul police department and FBI last week canvassed the shopping center parking lot where Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents pulled him from a vehicle, threw him to the ground and repeatedly struck him in the head with a steel baton.

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© Photograph: Mark Vancleave/AP

© Photograph: Mark Vancleave/AP

© Photograph: Mark Vancleave/AP