Teammates, rivals are one and the same for Canadian bobsleigh athletes in Beijing
In bobsleigh, as with most Olympic sports, your teammates double as rivals.
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Shaun White seeks Tom Brady retirement advice, Norway cross-country drama, curling rivals bond - Beijing diary
Keeping up with the Joneses The first week at the Winter Olympics has brought tears, tantrums and controversy — what’s new there — but not for the first time the chaos was leavened by events at the curling. Ad/> Canada skip Jennifer Jones, still smarting after an 8-5 round-robin loss to Japan, couldn’t help but stop in the mixed zone after overhearing Japanese vice-skip Chinami Yoshida. /> Beijing 2022Beijing Today Day 6 — Americans shine as Olympic record falls and a father is emulated20 HOURS AGO Yoshida was telling a reporter how excited she was that Jones was representing Canada because it’s her “favourite team.” The two players shared a hug.
Yan earns China's first sliding medal as Grotheer wins skeleton gold
YANQING, China: Yan Wengang won China's first-ever medal in a Winter Games sliding event on Friday (Feb 11) as Germany continued their domination of the Olympic high-speed disciplines with Christopher Grotheer winning the men's skeleton gold.
ROC skater Kamila Valieva tested positive for banned substance, ITA confirms
The future of the 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva at these Winter Olympics remains in limbo despite the Independent Testing Agency (ITA) confirming that she tested positive for the banned substance trimetazidine on Christmas Day.
Jamaica recupera su simbólico trineo de bobsleigh de cuatro 24 años después
El debut del cuarteto de bobsleigh de Jamaica en los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno Calgary 1988 está considerado como uno de los grandes momentos de la historia del deporte. Un hito que incluso llegó a llegar al cine en la película 'Elegidos para el triunfo', estrenada en el año 1993.
Winter Olympics: Questions need to be raised over Britain's skeleton performance, says Matt Weston
British skeleton racer Matt Weston has acknowledged that «questions need to be raised» over the team's failure to win a medal at the Winter Olympics.
'We don’t want a smaller bobsleigh family' - German Francesco Friedrich funds rival team Austria
German bobsledder Francesco Friedrich — who is the most successful pilot in World Cup history — says he helped Austrian rider Benjamin Maier with financial support to avoid the “bobsleigh family” getting smaller. The pair will be rivals on the track when they compete for Olympic success in Beijing. Ad/> In fact, Maier was just 0.2 seconds slower than Friedrich in the two-man training heats, but he may not have been able to compete had it not been for the German.
Olympic Games 2022: How to watch Quentin Fillon Maillet, Guillaume Cizeron, Gabriella Papadakis, and Team France
France have one gold and five silver medals after ten days of competition at Beijing 2022.