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The Edinburgh pair lived up to their billing as gold medal favourites by seeing off world bronze medallists Sweden and reigning Olympic champions Canada in their first two matches, but 2018 silver medallists Switzerland proved a step too far.
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach says he will have a meeting with Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai within the “closed loop” of Beijing 2022 during the Games. The wellbeing of the former Wimbledon doubles champion has been questioned ever since allegations of sexual assault against Chinese former vice premier, Zhang Gaoli, were made on a social media account of hers in November. There has been no comment from Zhang.
Former snowboarding superstar Billy Morgan says Team GB medal hopeful Katie Ormerod is 'riding well' ahead of another shot at Olympic glory. Ormerod was tipped for medals ahead of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics but was forced with withdraw from the games after breaking her heel in training.
Team GB's William Feneley missed out on the top ten of the first qualifying for the men's moguls final, scoring 70.23 to finish 21st. Canadian Mikael Kingsbury's 81.15 topped qualification ahead of Sweden's Walter Wallberg.
Olympics will turn attention away from criticism over human rights, which China rejects, a spokesperson for the organising committee told Reuters on the eve of the opening ceremony. Several countries including the United States and Britain have announced a diplomatic boycott of the Games over China's rights record, including its treatment of mostly Muslim Uyghurs in its Xinjiang region, which the United States deems genocide. "The so-called China human rights issue is a lie made up by people with ulterior motives," Zhao Weidong, spokesperson for the Beijing Games, told Reuters in an interview on Thursday when asked if such criticism had undermined the Games.
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.
BEIJING : Friday's start of the Beijing Winter Olympics will turn attention away from criticism over human rights, which China rejects, a spokesperson for the organising committee told Reuters on the eve of the opening ceremony.
