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YANQING, China : A little over a year after a cruel knee injury left him on crutches, Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde has landed in Beijing as the favourite in both of the men's Olympic alpine skiing speed events - downhill and Super-G.
‘Stones of Destiny’ have proved elusive for Great Britain in the 20 years since more than six million viewers stayed up after midnight to watch Rhona Martin conjure her famous final act of the Olympic women’s curling final in Salt Lake City.
The world's leading women's ski jumper, Marita Kramer will miss the Beijing Olympics after testing positive for Covid-19, the Austrian team confirmed on Tuesday. Kramer tested positive during a competition in Germany last week in the build-up to the Games where she was set to be one of the favourites to win a gold medal. Ad/> But before flying to Beijing a PCR test confirmed she was still infected with the virus and will now miss the Games altogether.
Known as the ‘Pearl of the Yellow Sea’, the Chinese coastal city of Qingdao sits in a sweeping bay at the southern tip of the Shandong Peninsula. Flanked by beaches, its skyline is pierced by vertiginous glass towers and, beyond that, cloud-topped mountains.
Austrian gold medal favourite Marita Kramer will miss the Winter Olympics after testing positive for Covid and American bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor is also a doubt.
Winter Olympics history maker Ester Ledecka has a passion for snowsport which surely cannot be rivalled among her elite peers — and she is aiming to make history all over again at Beijing 2022. Asked how she would deal with the theoretical choice of having to choose between ski and snowboard, the Czech last year told Eurosport she would rather “quit” than have to give something up. Ad/> After becoming the first athlete to win Olympic gold in two sports at the same Games, when she won the snowboard parallel giant slalom title and alpine skiing’s Super-G at Pyeongchang 2018, she made the front pages of newspapers around the world.
The Winter Olympics are almost upon us! The world’s biggest winter sports stars are descending on Beijing to compete for their share of 109 medals – seven more than were up for grabs in PyeonChang four years ago. The Games will officially begin on February 4 and run until February 20, with Mikaela Shiffrin, Shaun White, Chloe Kim, Yuzuru Hanyu and Ester Ledecka among the box-office names to look out for.