Winter Olympics 2022: Ireen Wust, aka the GOAT, and 'totally crazy' ski jump fiasco – Best of Beijing

BEST MOMENTS OF DAY 3 The GOAT Ad/> Sure, Michael Phelps has a thousand Olympic gold medals but if they did every sport forwards, backwards, side-to-side and deliberately slower then we would probably all have one by now. A true test of greatness isn’t the amount of Olympic gold medals in your cabinet but across how many Olympics your dominance spans. Beijing 2022Unicorns, Prada and the Joker — The weird and wonderful from the Winter Olympics5 HOURS AGO Which is why we’re happy to officially declare Ireen Wust as the Olympic GOAT.

The Dutch speed skater became the first summer or winter Olympian to win an individual gold medal at a fifth separate Games – moving clear of icons like Phelps and Carl Lewis. It's possible Sir Steve Redgrave will write in and complain, but he needed other people alongside him to move the boat win his five in a row. Nope, this is about individual titles and Wust is clear of them all.

Her epic run began at Turin 2006, continuing at Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018 before her triumph in Beijing. I don’t know what it is,” she said. I just see the rings and something magical happens.” It does indeed.

(P.S. Sorry Michael, we think you’re great really.) Ski jumping mayhem Own up, who’s had a stinker in the ski jumping? There was huge drama in the mixed team competition as a spate of disqualifications over suit violations sparked mayhem. Japan, Austria and Norway all had jumpers disqualified in the final, while Germany – who had soared to the last four world titles – didn't even make it out of qualification after irking the officials.