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Tears, drugs, and cruel coaches — inside Russian skating’s win-at-any-cost approach
Kamila Valieva kicked off the Beijing Olympics with a triumphant and historic feat that demonstrated what Russia’s brutal training methods could achieve. She ended the games in lonely defeat, a troubling reminder of the perils of a program that... -
Americans David Wise, Alex Ferreira capture freestyle skiing halfpipe medals
The first thing that David Wise did after clinching his third Olympics medal was sprint down the center of the superpipe to the aid of an injured fellow American. -
2022 Winter Olympics: Mikaela Shiffrin’s last chance to win a medal delayed
Mikaela Shiffrin’s unexpectedly long and torturous wait for her first medal of the Beijing Olympics has stretched nearly two weeks. Another delay only seems fitting. -
Ten million viewers tune in to watch Olympic figure skating drama
The US primetime replay of the skating competition brought in 1.4 million more viewers than the previous night's Olympics coverage, NBC said. -
High winds hinder end of Olympics
The Alpine mixed team parallel race was rescheduled from Saturday, despite the postponement forcing some teams to rebook their flights. -
Two teenage Olympic stars' faces are everywhere, for wildly different reasons
Eileen Gu and Kamila Valieva became the teenage faces of the Winter Olympics, but their memories of Beijing 2022 are likely to be wildly different. -
US men’s Olympic hockey team subject of noise complaint from late-night party
The U.S. men's hockey team made noise in Beijing after all -- just not on the ice -- at the 2022 Olympics. -
Beijing says goodbye to the Winter Olympics
• Analysis: Beijing 2022 divided the world, but for China it was a success -
2022 Olympics: Mikaela Shiffrin, US fourth in mixed ski team event
Mikaela Shiffrin and the American mixed ski team missed out on a medal by 0.42 seconds, losing in the bronze matchup in the final Alpine ski event of the Beijing Olympics. -
Beijing 2022 divided the world, but for China it was a success
• Norway tops medal table after record-breaking performance -
Some of the most memorable figure skating fashions from this year's Winter Olympics
There are few occasions in this life for which we can really dress to the nines -- the Met Gala, if you're a certain kind of famous, or Halloween for us regular folk. -
Finland skier suffers frozen penis in Olympics mass start race
Finland's Remi Lindholm needed a heat pack at the end of his race to thaw out a particularly sensitive body part at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. -
Beijing Winter Olympics end as athletes celebrate closing ceremony
Olympic athletes on Sunday marched into Bird's Nest Stadium for the closing ceremony and to bid farewell to the 2022 Beijing Winter Games. -
Highs and lows at the Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics came to a close on Sunday after weeks of hard-won victories and heartbreaking disappointments. -
Taiwan premier wants 2022 Olympics speedskater punished for wearing Chinese suit
Taiwan’s premier wants a Taiwanese Olympic speedskater to be punished for wearing what appeared to be a suit from China’s team during training. -
US figure skater Vincent Zhou barred from 2022 Olympics closing ceremony as ‘close contact’
US figure skater Vincent Zhou, who had already recovered from COVID during the 2022 Olympics, says he was barred from attending the closing ceremony because he was a "close contact."