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ZHANGJIAKOU, China :The United States won gold in the inaugural snowboard cross mixed team event at the Beijing Games on Saturday, with Lindsey Jacobellis edging past Italian Michela Moioli in a nail-biting final race.
BEIJING : Anna Hasselborg's Sweden hung on for a narrow victory over Jennifer Jones-led Canada in the battle between the past two Olympic women's champions while 2018 medallists South Korea and Japan also won at the National Aquatics Centre on Saturday.
BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on the Beijing Winter Olympics:
Mikaela Shiffrin cut a confident figure during the first of three practice runs for the women’s downhill event, clocking the eighth-fastest time out of 45 skiers, but said she «hasn't decided» whether she will compete on Tuesday. The American’s Olympic campaign got off to a disastrous start in Beijing as she crashed out in her first two events but then managed a ninth-place finish in the super-G, after which she said “things were starting to line up again”.
The IOC confirmed that it expected a decision on Kamila Valieva's participation at the Olympic Games to be made before the individual event gets under way on February 15. The 15-year-old Russian superstar practised ahead of the individual event beginning on Tuesday as the legal wrangling over her participation at the Games continued.
Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych will face no punishment from the IOC for holding up a sign reading “No War in Ukraine” after completing a run at the Winter Olympics. There are rising tensions in eastern Europe, with the US warning that Russian troops are in place to invade Ukraine “at any time”. Ad/> The potential invasion has seen the US and the UK among the nations urging their citizens to leave Ukraine as soon as possible.
Charlotte Bankes exited the Beijing Winter Olympics without a medal after finishing fifth in the mixed team snowboard-cross competition with team-mate Huw Nightingale at Genting Snow Park on Saturday.
Mikaela Shiffrin said she "would love" to compete in the alpine skiing women's downhill event at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022.