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BEIJING: Hwang Dae-heon claimed South Korea's first short track speed skating medal at the Beijing Olympics when he won the men's 1,500m in a tight finish on Wednesday (Feb 9).
Charlotte Bankes missed out on an expected medal in the women’s snowboard-cross as Great Britain’s disappointing start to the Winter Olympics continued in Beijing.
Hwang Dae-heon avoided the potential chaos of a stacked 1500m short-track speed skating final to take his first Winter Olympic gold in Beijing, with Team GB's Farrell Treacy coming ninth. The four-time world champion emerged victorious ahead of Canada's Steven Dubois and Russian Semion Elistratov. Ad/> Britain's Treacy raced a sensible semi-final to reach the medal race, albeit in fortuitous circumstances.
At every Olympics, summer or winter, there is nervousness about where the first British medal is coming from. When two of the favourites miss out on the podium — that’s when the panic really sets in. That might be where we are at on day five, after world champion Charlotte Bankes was unable to progress past the quarter-finals of snowboard cross, 24 hours after Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds missed out on mixed doubles curling bronze.
Gymnastics icon Simone Biles has tweeted her support for compatriot Mikaela Shiffrin, who skied herself out of medal contention for the second event in a row at this year’s Winter Olympics.
BEIJING — Jeremy Colliton accidentally fired a puck into the bench during a drill to send some of his players ducking for cover.
Swedish champion Nils van der Poel has slammed the Dutch speed skating team for allegedly trying to manipulate the ice at Beijing 2022, calling it “the biggest scandal in our sport”. Van der Poel, who won gold in the men’s 5000m on Monday, was unhappy to learn that Dutch sports scientist Sander van Ginkel was in Beijing looking to make the ice as hard as possible. Ad/> Van Ginkel has said in an article in Schaatsen.nl that he is in Beijing to measure the temperature of the ice and try to influence the ice manager at the venue, Canadian Mark Messer.
Ice Hockey has lived up to its reputation in Beijing with big brawls and referees bashed into the barriers. True to form, a huge brawl erupted in a fiery clash between Switzerland and the Russian Olympic Committee in the men's Ice Hockey.