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Five female ski jumpers, representing Austria, Japan, Norway, and Germany, were disqualified from the mixed team event at the Beijing Winter Olympics because their outfits were considered too baggy, supposedly giving them more airtime.
Chinese ski jumper Song Qiwu barely cleared 70m in the mixed team event — a full 30 meters shorter than the leading competitors — but was still initially shown a perfect score from the judges. Qiwu's unremarkable jump, complete with a back wind, underwhelmed the commentators and the crowd and even the athlete himself appeared less than pleased. Yet when his score was initially shown on television screens, it appeared all five judges had given him a perfect score of 20 points.
BEIJING — Ann-Renée Desbiens was of two minds about her workload in Canada's 4-2 win over the United States in Olympic women's hockey Tuesday.
Nathan Chen set a new short programme world record to blow apart the competition in the men’s singles – but it was a blunder from his biggest rival Yuzuru Hanyu that sparked the biggest gasps. Japan star Hanyu, the champion from Sochi 2014 and PyeongChang 2018, blew his first jump – rotating just once when he was meant to attempt a quadruple salchow. Although he recovered to deliver the rest of his performance with his famed grace and poise, he sits eighth at the halfway stage.
Al Hilal coach Leonardo Jardim has criticised the format of FIFA's Club World Cup on the eve of his side's semi-final clash with Chelsea, saying it is too weighted in favour of Europe's heavyweights.
Mikel Arteta is expected to be without Takehiro Tomiyasu for Arsenal's return to Premier League action against Wolves on Thursday night.
BEIJING : Teenager Eileen Gu nailed a new trick in the final run of the freeski Big Air on Tuesday, delivering host nation China its quickest gold rush at a Winter Games.
Ski jumping official Agnieszka Baczkowska has defended her decision to disqualify multiple jumpers from the mixed team competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Defending world champions Germany failed to qualify for the final after Katharina Althaus was disqualified, while Japan, Austria and Norway all had jumpers disqualified due to suit violations in the final. Ad/> Ski jumping suits have to meet strict measurement rules to ensure they don't function as wings in the air and give the athletes an unfair advantage.