Winter Olympics LIVE: Cancer survivor Max Parrot wins gold for Canada as Mikaela Shiffrin sees shock exit
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Winter Olympics: Ice Hockey Players Wear Covid Face Masks During Match
Russian and Canadian women ice hockey players wore medical face masks Monday during their Beijing Winter Olympics match, which also started an hour late. The exact reasons for the delay and the masks was not immediately clear, but these Olympics are taking place in a Covid-secure "closed loop" bubble.
Winter Olympics 2022 - Max Parrot claims slopestyle gold in Beijing after cancer battle as Canada dominate podium
Seven-time X Games champion Max Parrot topped the men’s slopestyle podium to win his first Olympic gold medal, after battling cancer since his last appearance at the Games The 27-year-old — who was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in December 2018 — scored an epic 90.96 points to bag top spot on the podium and not only win his first gold medal, but also Canada's first of the 2022 Beijing Games. Ad/> He was forced to watch on in anticipation to see whether China’s Yiming Su or compatriot Mark McMorris could better his effort, but neither could match it and finished in the silver and bronze medal positions respectively.
Freestyle skiing: Gu advances to Big Air final, Oldham and Ledeux lead qualifier in Beijing Winter Olympics
Beijing: US-born Chinese skier Eileen Gu breathed a sigh of relief as her third run in the qualifier event for Big Air freeski at the Beijing Olympics on Monday (Feb 7) drew loud applause from the audience.
Mikaela Shiffrin's wait for third Olympic gold to continue after crashing out of giant slalom at Beijing Winter Olympics
Mikaela Shiffrin, one of America's biggest hopes for Winter Olympic glory in alpine skiing, says she will «never get over» crashing out of the women's giant slalom on Monday.
Winter Olympics: Max Parrot wins snowboard slopestyle gold three years after cancer diagnosis
Canada's Max Parrot won Olympic snowboard slopestyle gold with the «best run of his life» — three years after being diagnosed with cancer.
Beijing Winter Olympics 2022: Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi Holds Nerve To Win Ski Jumping Gold
Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi held his nerve while his rivals lost theirs on Sunday, winning Olympic ski jumping gold on the men's normal hill in a wild and unpredictable Beijing Games final. Germany's World Cup leader Karl Geiger finished 15th in a disastrous performance, while hotly tipped Norwegians Halvor Egner Granerud and Marius Lindvik were also well out of contention. Kobayashi kept his cool to become the first Japanese ski jumper to win Olympic gold on foreign snow, pulling off jumps of 104.5 and 99.5 metres to finish first on 275.0 points. "This season I've been able to jump to the image I have in my mind," said the 25-year-old, who is second in the current World Cup standings and won this season's Four Hills competition.
Winter Games 2022 - Team GB's Kirsty Muir qualifies for big air skiing final as Katie Summerhayes narrowly misses out
Kirsty Muir will compete in the big air final after progressing beyond Monday’s qualifying round at Big Air Shougang. The 17-year-old Brit had one foot in the final after her first run scoring an impressive 89.25, but still had work to do to book her spot.