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Feb 05, 2022
By eurosport.com

Winter Olympics: Shaun White announces retirement from snowboarding after competing at Beijing 2022

Snowboarding legend Shaun White has confirmed that he will retire from the sport immediately after Beijing 2022, after already saying that this would be his final Winter Olympics. The three-time gold medallist revealed the news as he prepares for what will be his fifth Olympics in an illustrious career for Team USA. Ad/> «It will be my last competition, which is pretty special,» he told Olympics.com and the assembled media in Zhangjiakou on Saturday.

Feb 04, 2022
By cbc.ca

Figure skater Keegan Messing tests negative twice, needs 1 more to be cleared for travel to Beijing

Canadian men's figure skating champion Keegan Messing has received two negative COVID-19 tests, and as he awaits the results of a third required test, the Canadian Olympic Committee is working on travel arrangements to get him to China in time to compete at the Beijing Games.

Feb 04, 2022
By givemesport.com

Winter Olympics: Amy Williams reveals Team GB ones to watch and new events to look out for

“When you’re next to an ice track, you touch the ice, you smell it, you feel it.”

Feb 04, 2022
By eurosport.com

Winter Olympics: ‘A trailblazer’ - Mouat and Dodds hail Team GB joint flag bearer Muirhead ahead of opening ceremony

Eve Muirhead has been described as a “trailblazer” by her curling team-mates, ahead of the Sochi 2014 bronze medallist performing the honour of being Team GB’s joint flag bearer for the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics. The women’s skip will carry the union flag into Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium alongside Britain’s first Alpine skiing World Cup winner Dave Ryding.

Feb 04, 2022
By bt.com

Britain ‘pushing the boundaries’ of technology to keep skeleton medal run going

British skeleton stars are banking on more top-secret innovations in Beijing to help them maintain a medal-winning streak that stretches back to the reintroduction of the sport into the Olympic programme in 2002.