Olympics Live: Slopestyle postponed a day due to weather
BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on the Beijing Winter Olympics:
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The women’s Olympic skiing slopestyle qualifying event has been moved to Monday with the final the following day.
The competition was postponed Sunday due to wind, snow and low visibility.
The men’s slopestyle qualification has switched from Monday to Tuesday. The final will now be Wednesday.
Eileen Gu, who lives in the United States and represents China, will be going for a second gold medal. She won big air last Tuesday.
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Kaillie Humphries has a big lead in the first part of the monobob competition at the Beijing Olympics.
Humphries is competing for the first time as an American citizen. It's also the first time monobob, a one-woman bobsled, has been an Olympic event.
The reigning world monobob champion finished two runs Sunday in 2 minutes, 9.10 seconds, giving her a massive lead of 1.04 seconds over second-place Christine de Bruin of Canada. De Bruin’s time was 2:10.14.
Laura Nolte of Germany was third in 2:10.32, and three-time Olympic medalist Elana Meyers Taylor of the U.S. is right in the medal hunt — her time of 2:10.42 putting her fourth.
Barring a big mistake by somebody, it looks like four women remain in the mix for the three medals. They’ll be decided on Monday morning in Beijing, late Sunday night in the United States. The gap between Meyers Taylor and fifth-place Huai Mingming of China is nearly a half-second.
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Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva remains on the preliminary start list for the short program at the Olympic Games, drawing a spot in the final group among 30 figure skaters due on the ice Tuesday night at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing.
Valieva will start 26th if the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which is meeting later