Winter Olympics: Kirsty Muir and Katie Summerhayes miss out on freeski slopestyle medals
Team GB's wait for a 2022 Winter Olympic medal goes on after freestyle skiers Kirsty Muir and Katie Summerhayes finished short of the slopestyle podium.
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Today at the Winter Olympics: Kamila Valieva cleared to compete but with caveat
Figure skater Kamila Valieva dominated the headlines in Beijing once again as it emerged that no medals will be awarded in the women’s singles event if she makes the top three until her failed drug test has been fully investigated.
Winter Olympics: Party on ice with Lion King, French magic ahead of Kamila Valieva’s return – Best of Beijing
BEST MOMENTS OF DAY 10 Hakuna Matata Ad/> If medals were awarded for soundtracks, Team GB’s drought would finally be over. But the IOC continue to insist that only the best ice dancers can win medals, lame, so instead Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson had to settle for a commendable top-10 finish despite tearing it up to the Lion King. And when we say top 10, you can assume we mean 10th dead on.
"I Really Couldn't See": Heavy Snow Disrupts Beijing Winter Olympics 2022
Heavy snow fell throughout Sunday at the Beijing Winter Olympics disrupting several events and forcing athletes to battle through treacherous conditions in the pursuit of gold. Californian-born Chinese sensation Eileen Gu was among the competitors affected when her bid for a second gold medal was temporarily derailed by the postponement of qualifying for the freeski slopestyle. The second of three training runs for the women's downhill skiing was cancelled and women's freestyle skiing aerials qualification was also postponed. Environmentalists in the build-up to the Games in the Chinese capital had voiced concern about an Olympics taking place in one of the driest parts of China and relying almost entirely on man-made snow.
Winter Olympics: James Woods 'unable to move without pain' before slopestyle
British skier James Woods says he is «full of painkillers and strapped up in bed» on the eve of the slopestyle event because of a back injury.
Fame and fury: China's wildly different reactions to US-born Olympians
By CNN staffUpdated 0337 GMT (1137 HKT) February 12, 2022Beijing (CNN)In the span of a week, thre
Winter Olympics 2022 - Xu Mengtao takes gold in the women’s freestyle aerials and dethrones Hanna Huskova in Beijing
Xu Mengtao was overcome with joy on home soil after emerging victorious in the women’s freestyle aerials, as her superb final score of 108.61 claimed a gold medal in a thrilling event at the Zhangjiakou Genting Snow Park. She went one better than the silver medal she earned in Sochi eight years ago to dethrone Hanna Huskova, who took home a silver medal for Belarus by scoring 107.95.