Snowboard star Huw Nightingale pinpoints positives after memorable Winter Olympic debut
Bolton snowboard star Huw Nightingale is eager to build upon his first experience at the Olympics after bowing out in the quarter-finals.
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Winter Olympics: Nathan Chen exorcises demons to win elusive figure skating gold
It was billed as the great Olympic showdown but, in the end, high-flying student and higher-flying skater Nathan Chen was simply in a class of his own.
Beijing Winter Olympics venues slowly add spectators - and a bit of buzz
BEIJING: A week into the COVID-19 locked-down Beijing Olympics, crowds at events are growing, gradually.
Winter Olympics: Team Ireland's Maloney Westgaard 14th in cross-country skiing
Team Ireland’s Thomas Maloney Westgaard beat out 85 other athletes to secure 14th place in the Beijing Winter Olympic’s cross-country skiing 15km classic.
'Travesty! Judges grenaded their credibility' - Fury at score for historic Ayumu Hirano stunt at Winter Olympics
There was widespread anger and confusion after the judges appeared to miss the significance of Ayumu Hirano's historic triple cork at the Beijing 2022 Olympics. You would be forgiven for not knowing exactly what a triple cork is, but there was no doubt how special the second run was from the Japanese star as fans took to social media to share their delight and amazement at what he pulled off. Ad/> The 23-year-old, who won the silver medal in the superpipe at the 2013 Winter X Games at the age of just 14, went for broke with a quite outrageous performance which featured something unprecedented on the biggest stage.
Today at the Winter Olympics: Great Britain’s curlers bounce back
Great Britain’s women’s curlers ended Thursday on a high as they beat defending Olympic champions Sweden 8-2 to recover from an opening loss to Switzerland earlier in the day.
Winter Olympics 2022 - Further blow for Team GB as PyeongChang bronze medallist Izzy Atkin withdraws from Beijing
Great Britain's bid to get on the medal table at the Winter Olympics in Beijing has suffered a further blow, after freestyle skier Izzy Atkin withdrew from the Games. The 23-year-old became Team GB's first confirmed winner of an Olympic skiing medal when she claimed bronze in slopestyle at PyeongChang 2018, but she was in a race against time for the Beijing Games after breaking her pelvis before Christmas. Ad/> Atkin was initially picked for two events while she was recovering from the injury.
Winter Olympics: Mikaela Shiffrin admits 'failure' in refreshingly honest interview
Alpine skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin has admitted her Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics has been a “failure” so far.