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Japanese snowboarder Takeru Otsuka attracted attention by checking his phone just before his crucial slopestyle run at the Beijing 2022 Olympics. The 20-year-old produced a score of 74.93 in the qualifying event on Sunday which placed him down in sixth place and secured his progress through to the final.
Mark McMorris says he'll pull out all his toughest tricks in his bid for a second Olympic slopestyle medal.
"Super-proud" snowboarder Zoi Sadowski Synnott made history for New Zealand after winning their first-ever Winter Olympics gold medal on Sunday but bad weather played havoc with the eagerly anticipated men's downhill skiing. Seven golds were up for grabs on the second full day of competition in the Chinese capital, as the sports took centre stage after a build-up overshadowed by Covid and rights concerns. Seven became six when the main event of the day, the men's downhill -- one of the most closely watched events at the Winter Olympics -- was postponed because of gusty winds and will now take place on Monday instead.
Chances are you’ve been wondering why athletes are given cuddly pandas on the podium instead of medals at Beijing 2022. At the Tokyo Summer Olympics we became accustomed to the medals being dished out inside the stadium – albeit with athletes having to put medals around their own necks due to Covid risks – but that isn’t happening in Beijing. Ad/> Instead, medallists have received a fluffy mascot on the podium, as modelled by New Zealand’s snowboard sensation Zoi Sadowski-Synnott in the above video.
The postponement of the men's downhill skiing, a marquee event at the Winter Games, due to windy conditions left plenty of gold medals up for grabs.
ZHANGJIAKOU, China : American snowboarder Jamie Anderson reassured her supporters that she was alright after she failed to retain her gold medal in the women's slopestyle competition at the Winter Olympics on Sunday.
ZHANGJIAKOU, China : Chinese teen Su Yiming won first place in the men's snowboard slopestyle qualifiers at the Beijing Olympics on Sunday, advancing to the finals along with one of his childhood heroes, Canadian veteran Mark McMorris.
ZHANGJIAKOU, China : With a stable, near-flawless landing and a heart gesture to the camera, home favourite Su Yiming of China made his Olympic debut on Sunday and received a standing ovation in return.