Olympics Live: Norway's Ruud wins big air skiing gold
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Winter Olympics 2022 - Birk Ruud becomes crowned big air Olympic champion as Norwegian blows competition away in Beijing
Birk Ruud won gold medal in the freestyle skiing big air final at Big Air Shougang. The Norwegian was last out for the opening run and delivered a massive 95.75 to send him top of the group.
Winter Olympics 2022 - ‘Doubly wrong!’ – Mikaela Shiffrin has ‘absolute nightmare’ as she crashes out again
Mikaela Shiffrin crashed out on run 1 of the slalom just days after she suffered the same fate in the giant slalom. The US superstar – a gold medallist in the slalom at Sochi 2014 – crashed out just five gates in to her run in remarkably similar circumstances to events during the giant slalom. Ad/> “She's gone again [and it is] the same mistake,” began Nick Fellows on commentary.
Winter Olympics: American favourite Mikaela Shiffrin skis out of women's slalom
American pre-Games favourite Mikaela Shiffrin feels «pretty low right now» after her terrible start to Beijing 2022 continued when she failed to finish her second race in a row.
Olympics Live: Chloe Kim cruises through first halfpipe run
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America’s Mikaela Shiffrin crashes out of slalom after nightmare Olympics run
Mikaela Shiffrin’s Winter Olympics nightmare continued as she crashed out of the women’s slalom at Yanqing on Wednesday.
Winter Olympics 2022 - USA’s Chloe Kim reaches snowboard halfpipe final as she looks to defend her PyeongChang title
Chloe Kim advances to the snowboard halfpipe final after a successful qualifying run at Zhangjiakou Genting Snow Park. Kim — the defending halfpipe champion — came out of the blocks and delivered a safe but smooth opening run, returning a table topping 87.75 score as she put one foot in Thursday’s final.
Beijing sells troubled Xinjiang as a winter sports paradise
BEIJING: China's vast region of Xinjiang has hit the headlines as a centre of massive alleged human rights abuses, but Beijing is keen it gets recognition for another reason - as a top winter sports destination.