The sporting weekend in pictures
Jamie George scored two tries as England got their Guinness Six Nations campaign back on track with a bonus-point 33-0 win over Italy in Rome in an exciting weekend of sport.
Beijing Sport News
Freestyle skiing-Wipeouts and crashes plague slopestyle qualifiers after snow
ZHANGJIAKOU, China : Fresh snow was a curse not a blessing at the women's freeski slopestyle qualifiers at the Beijing Games on Monday as athletes skidded, crashed and fell during what many described as a challenging and sometimes scary event.
Biathlon-Heartbroken Tandrevold heads home after finish line collapse
ZHANGJIAKOU, China : Norwegian biathlete Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold is leaving the Beijing Olympics as a precautionary measure following her late collapse in Sunday's pursuit race, where she ran out of gas late in the event before crashing to the ground at the finish line.
Winter Olympics 2022 - Team GB’s Ormerod fails to qualify for big air final as Sadowski-Synnott and Murase top the stand
Team GB’s Katie Ormerod was unable to qualify for the snowboarding big air final after falling twice and only scoring 69.75 after three attempts. Slopestyle champion Zoi Sadowski-Synnott qualified after delivering a big 176.50 to ease into contention for a second gold medal of the games, whilst Japan duo Kokomo Murase and Reira Iwabuchi finished second and third, scoring 171 and 158.50 respectively.
‘Where art meets sport’ – Olympic champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron dubbed figure skating greats
Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron took home ice dance gold after a world-record combined total of 226.98 at the Winter Olympics. The French pair, who are four-times world champions, had already stole the show at Beijing 2022 when their rhythm dance on Saturday scored a world record of 90.83.
Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron seal another world record to win ice dance gold at Winter Olympics
Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron sealed Olympic gold in the ice dance when obliterating the field with a world-record score. The French pair backed up their world-record display in the rhythm on Saturday with a near-flawless dance in the free on Monday.
Winter Olympics 2022 - USA leapfrog GB in women's curling standings after beating South Korea as Canada gain crucial win
USA leapfrogged Team GB — who dropped to fourth with a game in hand — and moved up to third place in the women's curling standings with their fourth win from six, beating South Korea 8-6 in a tightly contested match. After a pointless opening end, South Korea took a 1-0 lead in the second, the first of four consecutive one-point ends that were shared back and forth between the teams, going into the break at 2-2.
