USA’s Mikaela Shiffrin crashes out of bid to win her first gold of Beijing 2022
Mikaela Shiffrin crashed out of the women’s giant-slalom on Sunday as she made a stuttering start to her quest to win at least three gold medals at the Beijing Olympics.
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Winter Olympics 2022 - 'This is unbelievable, isn't it?' - Ireen Wust delighted after historic gold medal
Ireen Wust labelled her record-breaking gold medal «unbelievable» and paid tribute to her best friend. Ireen Wust became the first Summer or Winter Olympian in history to win an individual gold medal at five separate Games by taking gold in the women's 1500m speed skating event. Ad/> With the 2022 Games set to be her last, she held off challenges from world record holder Miho Takagi and compatriot Antoinette de Jong to defender her title, clocking an Olympic record in the process.
Conor Swail back on top in California
Ireland's top-ranked show jumping rider Conor Swail continued his excellent run of form by claiming victory in Sunday’s three-star $138,600 Grand Prix in California.
Snowboarding-Canada's 'caged tiger' Parrot soars to gold, Su wins silver
ZHANGJIAKOU, China :Max Parrot of Canada made a stunning comeback from cancer to win snowboarding slopestyle gold at the Beijing Olympics on Monday, carving out a smooth line and landing signature jumps with ease as Chinese teenager Su Yiming took silver.
Olympic wake-up call: Max Parrot is golden on the slopes
Three years ago, Max Parrot was laying in a hospital bed "with no energy, no muscles, no cardio" undergoing chemotherapy to fight Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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The Winter Olympics is in full swing in Beijing with Team GB hoping to win a record medal tally.
Canada-ROC Olympic women's hockey game in Beijing starts late, with masks
BEIJING — Canada's 6-1 win over Russia in Olympic women's hockey Monday featured the strange visual of players on both teams wearing masks under their cages after a delayed puck drop.
Beijing Olympics hockey players wear Covid face masks during match
ice hockey players wore medical face masks on Monday during their Beijing Winter Games match, which also started an hour late, in a bizarre chapter for the Games. Canada ran out 6-1 winners and their player Natalie Spooner said afterwards that the game had been delayed because their opponents had not got their results back from morning testing for Covid. The Russians were on the ice for the scheduled start time but their opponents at Wukesong Sports Centre were not initially there for their Group A showdown.