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[ad_1] Mikaela Shiffrin He’ll go downhill at an Olympic Games for the first time on Tuesday, a decision he and his coaches made after a second successful training session at the Yanqing National Alpine Center on Monday. Shiffrin, one of the best skiers in the world, spent his first week at the Olympics forgetfully. After …
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[ad_1] More than two weeks of the Olympic Games tend to have a certain rhythm. And in recent weeks, fatigue may begin to manifest itself. Many great performances. So many victories and heartbreaks. How much more can we get? Consider all these events and more still to come, featuring a host of Olympic stars in …
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[ad_1] BEIJING — At Saturday’s Olympics daily press conference, the first question came from a German reporter, and everyone could guess what he was going to ask. “In the case of Kamila Valieva,” the reporter began. young skater In the midst of the recent Russian doping scandal, “Can you explain why it took six weeks …
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[ad_1] BEIJING – The curling arena darkened and strobe lights blocked the ice. A group of pipers walked almost like an image from another time, or at least from another continent. The musicians, mostly from Beijing, describe themselves as amateurs. None of them have ever been to Scotland. But they were dressed as if they …
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[ad_1] China’s water scarcity capital went to enormous lengths Making enough artificial snow for the Winter Olympics. But on Saturday morning, the athletes in the mountains woke up to the real deal. Snow was expected this weekend for three places inside the bubble. Steady snow fell over Zhangjiakou early Saturday and cloudy skies threatened storms …
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[ad_1] In the early days, before England became an international force in skeleton sport, Simon Timson would park himself near the finish lines of track and field events: “Want to go to the 2006 Winter Olympics? Wanted: runners to the British bobsleigh and skeleton team.” Taking over the leadership of British Bobsleigh and Skeleton in …
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[ad_1] If you’re watching the Winter Olympics in Beijing, it’s hard to miss: Just beyond the white slopes for ski and snowboard events are brown hills where the snow barely touches. Machine-made snow is hardly new to professional winter sports or even the Olympics. But as my colleague Matt Futterman and I wrote this weekThe …
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[ad_1] Lindsey Jacobellis, the world’s most dominant athlete in the short history of snowboard cross, awarded the United States its first gold medal at the Beijing Games on Wednesday. The victory was salvation for Jacobellis. It just didn’t live up to expectations in the previous three Winter Games: can still stand It is the most …
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[ad_1] Casey Dawson ran one of the slowest 1500m races in years on Tuesday, but that wasn’t quite the point. Just getting to the starting line was a victory. Dawson, an American distance speed skater, did not join his teammates when he flew to China two weeks ago. A positive test for coronavirus had ruled …
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[ad_1] Brianna Decker has known since Thursday night, when she fell on the ice with a broken leg and started screaming, she wouldn’t be playing against Canada or anyone else in Beijing. His frustration is far from resolved. “I think I’m still working out,” Decker, the star center for the US women’s hockey team, said …
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[ad_1] The non-environmentally friendly secret of winter sports is that many competitions are held on artificial snow. The water-scarce capital of China had to go to great lengths to get enough of it. February 5, 2022 BEIJING – China didn’t move mountains to host war 2022 Winter Olympics. But it flooded a dried-up riverbed, diverting …
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[ad_1] The non-environmentally friendly secret of winter sports is that many competitions are held on artificial snow. The water-scarce capital of China had to go to great lengths to get enough of it. February 5, 2022 BEIJING — China has not moved mountains to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. But it flooded a dried-up riverbed, …
Continue reading “How Beijing Created Snow for the Winter Olympics”