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Australia's cross-country athletes enjoyed the warmer conditions in the sprint event at the National Cross-Country Skiing Centre, although none of the six progressed to the quarterfinals.
Australian alpine skier Katie Parker has tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival in Beijing.
Ester Ledecka successfully defended her snowboard parallel giant slalom title at the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday -- even if she did not immediately realise it. The 26-year-old Czech became the first woman to win a gold medal in two different sports at a Winter Olympics when she took skiing and snowboarding titles in Pyeongchang four years ago. She won snowboard parallel giant slalom gold again in the Chinese capital when she cruised to victory in the final against Austria's Daniela Ulbing.
Ski jumping official Agnieszka Baczkowska has defended her decision to disqualify multiple jumpers from the mixed team competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Defending world champions Germany failed to qualify for the final after Katharina Althaus was disqualified, while Japan, Austria and Norway all had jumpers disqualified due to suit violations in the final. Ad/> Ski jumping suits have to meet strict measurement rules to ensure they don't function as wings in the air and give the athletes an unfair advantage.
Norwegian cross-country skiing star Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo has defended his men's sprint title for his fourth Olympic gold. In a repeat of the 2018 final, Italian Pellegrino once again took silver finishing just under three tenths of a second behind the Norwegian.
Eileen Gu comforted a tearful Tess Ledeux after snatching the gold medal away from her in the women’s freestyle skiing big air final at Beijing 2022. The Chinese sensation, 18, trailed France’s Ledeux and Switzerland’s Mathilde Gremaud heading into the third and final jump but dropped a career-first double cork 1620 to catapult up the standings. Ad/> She reacted in disbelief after landing the trick, which she said she had never even attempted, as she secured China’s third gold medal of the Games.
Jonna Sundling has added Olympic gold to her world title with a dominant performance in the women's cross-country skiing free sprint final. Sundling won by a huge margin of 2.88 seconds after also being the fastest skier in previous heats as Sweden narrowly missed out on a clean sweep of the podium.
Dutch speed skater Kjeld Nuis produced the best ever WInter Olympics performance in the 1500m to retain his title ahead of team-mate Thomas Krol in Beijing. Nuis set a new Olympic record time of 1:32.21 to secure the third Games gold of his career, immediately after Krol had broken an Olympic record which had stood for 20 years.