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Max Parrot reflective after emotional snowboard slopestyle gold, bagpipe band serenade curlers – Beijing diary

BRAVE — BUT NOT THAT BRAVE They like their Scottish traditions over at the curling, six members of the Beijing Military Pipe Band start every session with a bagpipe blast of ‘Scotland the Brave’. Ad/> “We have been preparing for this Olympics for a long time,” said band captain Zhang, who has never been to Scotland. Beijing 2022The new GOAT and 'totally crazy' ski jump fiasco – Best of Beijing2 HOURS AGO “The sound of the Scottish bagpipes is really charming.

Winter Olympics 2022: Ireen Wust, aka the GOAT, and 'totally crazy' ski jump fiasco – Best of Beijing

BEST MOMENTS OF DAY 3 The GOAT Ad/> Sure, Michael Phelps has a thousand Olympic gold medals but if they did every sport forwards, backwards, side-to-side and deliberately slower then we would probably all have one by now. A true test of greatness isn’t the amount of Olympic gold medals in your cabinet but across how many Olympics your dominance spans. Beijing 2022Unicorns, Prada and the Joker — The weird and wonderful from the Winter Olympics5 HOURS AGO Which is why we’re happy to officially declare Ireen Wust as the Olympic GOAT.

Süle to join Dortmund at season's end

Niklas Süle is switching sides in Der Klassiker.

Winter Olympics 2022: ‘Totally crazy!' - Top competitor in tears as DQ chaos ruins ski jump final

The mixed team ski jumping final at Beijing 2022 descended into farce after a spate of disqualifications left some nations infuriated. Slovenia won gold ahead of the Russian Olympic Committee and Canada, but it was the actions of the officials that were by far the biggest talking point. Ad/> Japan, Austria and Norway all had jumpers disqualified due to suit violations in the final, while Germany – who had won four mixed team world titles on the spin – failed to progress from qualifying after individual silver medallist Katharina Althaus was disqualified.

Team Ireland Winter Olympics: Irish skiers in action

Today saw two Alpine Skiers in action for Ireland at the Winter Olympics, with Jack Gower competing in the Downhill event which was rescheduled from yesterday morning, and Tess Arbez in the Giant Slalom.

Beijing Winter Olympics: World champions Germany miss ski jumping mixed team final after disqualification

Germany, who have won four successive world championships, failed to reach the inaugural Olympic ski jumping mixed team final on Monday after individual silver medallist Katharina Althaus was disqualified for a suit violation on a chaotic night. Germany were hot favourites for the event, which involves two men and two women, but with only three scoring jumpers, they finished ninth of the 10 competing nations, with only eight advancing to the final later on Monday. Japan also suffered a disqualification, for Sara Takanashi, but squeezed through as did Austria, another of the favourites, when Daniela Irashko Stolz fell foul of the complex rules that link suits and skis to bodyweight in an attempt to remove any advantage that can be gained by athletes being lighter.

COVID in Europe: An updated list of travel restrictions for every European country

Most countries have travel restrictions in place in a bid to control the spread of COVID-19.

Beijing Winter Olympics: Hector strikes giant slalom gold after Shiffrin bombs

Sara Hector won the women's Olympic giant slalom on Monday in a race stripped of a showdown with Mikaela Shiffrin after the American slid out in the first leg. Hector, fastest down on the opening run of two, clocked a combined total of 1min 55.69sec to finish 0.28sec ahead of Italy's Federica Brignone, with current world champion Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland rounding out the podium. "I really tried to push it and give it all I got.

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Max Parrot reflective after emotional snowboard slopestyle gold, bagpipe band serenade curlers – Beijing diary

Winter Olympics 2022: Ireen Wust, aka the GOAT, and 'totally crazy' ski jump fiasco – Best of Beijing

Süle to join Dortmund at season's end

Winter Olympics 2022: ‘Totally crazy!' - Top competitor in tears as DQ chaos ruins ski jump final

Team Ireland Winter Olympics: Irish skiers in action

Beijing Winter Olympics: World champions Germany miss ski jumping mixed team final after disqualification

COVID in Europe: An updated list of travel restrictions for every European country

Beijing Winter Olympics: Hector strikes giant slalom gold after Shiffrin bombs