Olympics

Whatever happens on the ice, Valieva will not get a medal ceremony moment in Beijing. Nor will any skater who finishes in the top three with her.

Sunday, Feb. 13, was a day of many firsts. Not only was this the first time for the Super Bowl and Winter Games to happen at the same time, it was also the first time bobsled’s “monobob” was contested on the Olympic stage.

It was the inaugural Olympic monobob event at the Beijing Games. In monobob, there's only one woman in the bobsled.

Just 30 minutes ahead of the hearing’s start, Court of Arbitration for Sport director general Matthieu Reeb said Valieva was scheduled to speak by video to the panel.

The 29-year-old Jackson, a former inline skater who switched to the ice shortly before the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, joined fellow American Shani Davis as the only Black athletes to win long-track speedskating medals at the Olympics.

The Ukrainian Olympic Committee says the team "expresses a unanimous call for peace together with (our) native country.”

Soon after she crossed the finish line in her fourth-and-final run (51.14), the former McGregor Bulldog was all smiles as she was slowing down towards the end of the track.

This win is the first time in 12 years the U.S. men have beaten Canada on the Olympic ice.

Shaun White’s brilliant and transcendent Olympic career is over. It ended with a fall on his final run down the halfpipe, a heartfelt ovation from the crowd and then a tearful farewell to a sport he helped define.

Both the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Testing Agency — on behalf of the IOC -- said Friday they would fight the decision by Russia’s anti-doping agency to allow the 15-year-old Kamila Valieva to skate.

Ashley Caldwell, Christopher Lillis and Justin Schoenefeld each earned their first Winter Games medals.

The positive test could cost Russia the gold medal from the team competition and threaten Valieva’s chance to win the individual competition that starts Tuesday. She is the heavy favorite.

The 22-year-old followed his record short program at the Beijing Games with a near-perfect free skate.

Kim joins fellow American Shaun White as the only snowboarders to defend their Olympic titles in the halfpipe.

U.S. men’s curling team snags 6-5 victory over the Russian Olympic Committee at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

The ceremony to award gold to Russia, silver to the United States silver and bronze to Japan was not held as scheduled Tuesday.

As soon as the gates were lowered for Wednesday’s big final at the Zhangjiakou Genting Snow Park, Jacobellis lead for the entirety of the race.

The 36-year-old became the oldest U.S woman to win a gold; also, her 16-year gap between medals marked the longest for any U.S. woman.

Shiffrin came to China as one of the biggest stars at the Winter Olympics, an Alpine skier in the spotlight since she was a teenager.

NBC spokesman Greg Hughes said Monday night that some of Jones’ videos that were blocked were the result of a “third-party error” and not NBC.

The 22-year-old Chen avenged his poor performance from four years ago in Pyeongchang in the biggest way possible.

Kamila Valieva became the first woman to land a quad in the Olympics and her historic free skate put a stamp on the Russians' dominant run to the gold medal in the team event at the Beijing Games.

The premise of this bubble is simple: Keep those who passed multiple tests just to get access to the Olympics in, keep the rest of the world — and, hopefully, COVID-19 — out.

With a Daft Punk medley which included the songs “Contact,” “Touch,” and “Within,” the veteran duo scored a 129.07, the highest score of the final.

The 26-year-old American was trying to become the first Alpine ski racer from the country to win three Olympic golds.

History was made at the Zhangjiakou Genting Snow Park as Julia Marino of Westport, Connecticut claimed silver in women’s snowboard slopestyle during the second day of competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

During a reflective, sometimes emotional news conference Saturday, not far from the halfpipe where he’ll take his last competitive ride, the 35-year-old said that, yes, he’ll be hanging ‘em up for good.

Chinese President Xi Jinping declared the Games open during an opening ceremony heavy on ice-blue tones and winter imagery that was held in the same lattice-encased National Stadium that hosted the inaugural event at the 2008 Olympics.

The 2022 Winter Olympics open Friday under heavy security and warnings from officials that athletes or others could face legal action if they speak out on human rights or other touchy issues.

At the first day of competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, the American mixed doubles curling duo of Vicky Persinger (Fairbanks, Alaska) and Chris Plys (Duluth, Minn.) were one throw away from losing to the Australian pair of Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt.