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Courtney Sarault sat at a picnic table in the sun at the Olympic Village, her latest medal — a silver in women's short track 1,000 metres, to join the silver and bronze she’d already won in Milan — gleaming beside her. She had put four years of hard work and hope into Monday morning’s race. Her prize, by the most basic of measures, was a surprisingly heavy chunk of metal on a ribbon.
MILAN, Feb 17 : The owner of Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk has donated more than $200,000 to skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych after the athlete was disqualified from the Milano Cortina Winter Games before competing over the use of a helmet depicting Ukrainian athletes killed in the war with Russia, the club said on Tuesday.
TESERO, Italy, Feb 17 : Sweden’s Linn Svahn will miss Wednesday’s women’s sprint relay at the Winter Olympics after developing mild cold symptoms, the Swedish national team said on Tuesday.
ANTERSELVA, Italy, Feb 17 : After Eric Perrot set off on the final lap of France’s 4x7.5-km relay with only the narrowest of leads over Norway’s Vetle Staastad Kristiansen, Emilien Jacquelin lowered himself into the snow, back against a wall, his eyes fixed on the giant screen.
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 17 : Anna Hasselborg's Sweden saw their unbeaten run at the Winter Olympics ended on Tuesday when they lost 8-6 to Canada but, despite the defeat, other results meant they were able to seal their spot in the semi-finals.
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 17 : A controversy over allegations of cheating in curling at the Winter Olympics has made headlines all over the world and plunged the sometimes obscure sport into the mainstream.
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ANTERSELVA, Italy, Feb 17 : France's Eric Perrot overcame a wobble on the final shoot and a late surge from Norway's Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen to win a sensational first men's relay gold medal for his country at the Winter Olympics on Wednesday.