Olympics-'Boycott banter' to be doused by opening, says Games organiser
By Iain Axon
Beijing Sport News
Winter Olympics: Laura Deas on GB innovation, medal & a Lizzy Yarnold mug
Four years after stunning the skeleton world with their hi-tech skinsuits, Team GB are again bringing an «extra certain something» with them to pursue more Olympic medals at Beijing 2022.
Russian Olympic women's hockey team practices post-isolation
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IOC President to meet Peng Shuai in Olympic 'closed loop'
BEIJING : International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach will meet Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai inside the 'closed loop' of the Beijing Olympics, he said on Thursday.
Winter Olympics 2022 - Gerken Schofield sisters miss out on top 10 but race again for moguls finals on Sunday
Team GB's Makayla Gerken Schofield narrowly missed out on direct qualification for the Women's Moguls final after finishing 12th in the first qualifying session. Australia's Jakara Anthony topped qualifying ahead of reigning champion Perrine Laffont.
Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 spotlight: Kamila Valieva evokes Torvill and Dean and takes Bolero to a new level
Russian teenager Kamila Valieva may or may not have any idea about Britain’s association with figure skating and Bolero — but it may help make her a star to UK audiences at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. At the age of just 15, she is the favourite to win gold having stunned recently at the figure skating European Championships, when she took the free skate title by an astonishing 22 points. Ad/> Valieva did that to Maurice Ravel’s Bolero, which was famously what Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skated to on their way to ice dancing gold at the Sarajevo Games in 1984 — but this teenager is taking that music to a whole different level.
Winter Olympics: 'A tease' - Covid precautions limit Aleksander Aamodt Kilde's contact with Mikaela Shiffrin
Norway’s gold medal favourite Aleksander Aamodt Kilde says being so close to American girlfriend Mikaela Shiffrin — but not being able to spend proper time with her at the Winter Olympics — is already becoming a “tease”. The pair are the golden couple of the Games, and they could end up dominating much of the alpine skiing events at Beijing 2022.
Winter Olympics 2022 - Japan's Rina Yoshika taken in ambulance after crashing in slopestyle training
Japanese snowboarder Rina Yoshika was taken away in an ambulance after crashing during slopestyle training on Thursday at the Genting Snow Park. A Team Japan spokesperson confirmed that Yoshika sufferd a heavy fall after a crash-landing from one of the jumps.