Olympics Live: White House supports Team USA despite boycott
BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on the Beijing Winter Olympics:
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USA’s Mikaela Shiffrin after giant slalom crash in Beijing: ‘I won’t ever get over this’
Mikaela Shiffrin crashed out of the women’s giant-slalom on Sunday as she made a stuttering start to her quest to win at least three gold medals at the Beijing Olympics.
GWU president 'personally offended' by art slamming China's human rights record, removed from campus
Retired cross-country Olympic skier Noah Hoffman warns the IOC has been a ‘failure’ in protecting athletes.
Team USA skier Nina O’Brien recovering from harrowing crash near finish line of giant slalom race
Team USA skier Nina O’Brien suffered a harrowing crash while competing in the women’s giant slalom race – one of the most dangerous events at the Winter Olympics.
Max Parrot reflective after emotional snowboard slopestyle gold, bagpipe band serenade curlers – Beijing diary
BRAVE — BUT NOT THAT BRAVE They like their Scottish traditions over at the curling, six members of the Beijing Military Pipe Band start every session with a bagpipe blast of ‘Scotland the Brave’. Ad/> “We have been preparing for this Olympics for a long time,” said band captain Zhang, who has never been to Scotland. Beijing 2022The new GOAT and 'totally crazy' ski jump fiasco – Best of Beijing2 HOURS AGO “The sound of the Scottish bagpipes is really charming.
Rugby evening headlines as Woodward goes for Eddie Jones in public attack and Scotland get bad news before Wales game
Here are today's evening rugby headlines on Monday, February 2.
Winter Olympics - Max Parrot wins controversial slopestyle gold – What exactly happened in the event?
On Monday morning Canadian star Max Parrot won slopestyle gold, a little over three years after a diagnosis of Hodgkin lymphoma. However there was controversy after the event as replays showed Parrot had missed a grab during his routine. Ad/> Plenty on social media vented their frustration that was missed, with many believing that had it been scored “correctly” it might have resulted in a different winner.
Winter Olympics 2022: Ireen Wust, aka the GOAT, and 'totally crazy' ski jump fiasco – Best of Beijing
BEST MOMENTS OF DAY 3 The GOAT Ad/> Sure, Michael Phelps has a thousand Olympic gold medals but if they did every sport forwards, backwards, side-to-side and deliberately slower then we would probably all have one by now. A true test of greatness isn’t the amount of Olympic gold medals in your cabinet but across how many Olympics your dominance spans. Beijing 2022Unicorns, Prada and the Joker — The weird and wonderful from the Winter Olympics5 HOURS AGO Which is why we’re happy to officially declare Ireen Wust as the Olympic GOAT.