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Today at the Winter Olympics: Teenage star Kamila Valieva shines with rare feat

With the men’s downhill postponed due to high winds the Winter Olympics had to look elsewhere for headlines on Sunday. Fifteen-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva raised a hand as she lit up the Capital Indoor Arena, becoming only the ...

06 Feb 2022 at 16:55

Sport

Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat set for bronze medal play-off after losing semi

Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat must settle for a bronze medal play-off after losing their Olympic mixed curling semi-final to Norway at the National Aquatics Centre in Beijing. The British pair led for more than half the match but it turned ...

07 Feb 2022 at 14:56

Sport

Today at the Winter Olympics: Fears raised over Kamila Valieva’s mental health

Kamila Valieva took to Olympic ice again on Sunday, as fears were raised about her mental well-being ahead of an expected verdict by the Court of Arbitration for Sport over her right to stay at the Games. The 15-year-old went through her ...

13 Feb 2022 at 16:25

Sport

Bruce Mouat impressed as ‘pretty relentless’ curlers bounce back against Norway

Bruce Mouat’s curling team bounced back from a disappointing start to the day to sink in-form Norway and send a statement of intent on the third day of the round-robin competition in Beijing. Despite a tight 9-7 loss to the United ...

11 Feb 2022 at 16:55

Sport

Mikaela Shiffrin may not continue competing in Beijing after slalom crash

Mikaela Shiffrin cast doubt on her continued quest to win multiple medals at the Beijing Olympics after crashing out of the women’s slalom at Yanqing on Wednesday. The 26-year-old US star missed a gate early in her run, two days ...

09 Feb 2022 at 07:55

Sport

Farrell Treacy’s luck runs out after reaching 1500m short-track final

Farrell Treacy rode his luck to reach the final of the men’s 1500m short-track speed skating event at the Winter Olympics on Wednesday. The 26-year-old, who was late arriving at the Games after battling coronavirus, nudged ...

09 Feb 2022 at 14:55

Sport

Eve Muirhead’s team suffer agonising defeat to Switzerland in round-robin opener

Eve Muirhead’s quest for a curling medal at her fourth Olympics got off to a bad start as the Great Britain women’s team suffered a 6-5 extra-end defeat to Switzerland. Muirhead missed a simple draw with her last stone of ...

10 Feb 2022 at 08:25

Sport

Today at the Winter Olympics: Muir shines on debut as GB curlers chase bronze

Kirsty Muir starred for Great Britain on the fourth full day of the Winter Olympics as the 17-year-old finished fifth in the women’s freestyle Big Air competition. Global superstars Eileen Gu and Nathan Chen also took ...

08 Feb 2022 at 08:25

Sport

British freestyle skier Kirsty Muir lands rare ‘dub 12’ trick in Olympic finals

Seventeen-year-old Kirsty Muir forged a fresh and fearless Olympic narrative in the dystopian surroundings of the former Shuogang steelworks on Tuesday, finishing fifth in the women’s freestyle Big Air behind Chinese ...

08 Feb 2022 at 07:25

Sport

Shortening 50km cross-country race ‘ridiculous’, fumes GB’s Andrew Musgrave

Andrew Musgrave hit out at the “ridiculous” decision to reduce Saturday’s Olympic men’s 50km cross-country race to 30km due to plunging temperatures in Zhangjiakou. The four-time Olympian had pinned his medal hopes ...

19 Feb 2022 at 13:25

World

Beijing closes 10% of subway stations in bid to stem Covid spread

Beijing has closed around 10% of the stations in its vast subway system as an additional measure against the spread of coronavirus. The subway authority, in a brief message, said only that the decision to shut 40 ...

04 May 2022 at 08:25

Sport

A closer look at Great Britain’s hottest Winter Paralympics medal prospects

ParalympicsGB has selected 25 athletes across four sports for Beijing 2022. The team – GB’s biggest for a winter Games since Lillehammer in 1994 – will compete between March 4-13 in alpine skiing, Nordic skiing, ...

25 Feb 2022 at 07:25

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