Chloe Kim of the United States after winning gold in the women’s halfpipe final on Thursday.Credit…Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times Chloe Kim did it again, soaring to another Olympic gold medal in the halfpipe. Just as she did four years ago, she opened the competition on Thursday by landing a score that no one could […]
More than two days after the team figure skating event ended with Russia winning, Olympics officials still have not handed out the medals as they investigate a “legal issue” that has generated questions in the sport. The award ceremony was supposed to take place Tuesday night in Beijing, with the American team to receive silver […]
Lindsey Jacobellis had the finish line in sight, again. Long the most dominant athlete in the racing sport of snowboard cross, she had been this way many times at the Olympics. She had never gotten there first, though, not even back in 2006, when she had the lead to herself yards from the line and […]
Mikaela Shiffrin was disqualified from her second consecutive race at the Beijing Olympics.Credit…Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press When Mikaela Shiffrin, a two-time Olympic champion and ski racing’s most dominant figure for several years, fell on Monday and made an early exit from the women’s giant slalom at the Beijing Olympics, it seemed an anomaly, a glitch […]
Eileen Gu needed the best jump of her life to win a gold medal. The 18-year-old from California had come to her mother’s home country hoping to win three events at the Winter Olympics while representing China. Under the glare of a bright sun and the eyes of the international news media, Gu stood on […]
Eileen Gu won the first of three gold medals she hopes to earn for China. Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times BEIJING — Eileen Gu needed the best jump of her life to win a gold medal. The 18-year-old from California had come to her mother’s home country, hoping to win three events at the Winter Olympics […]
The saddest part about the baseball lockout, which almost certainly will delay the start of spring training and perhaps trim the regular season, is the missed opportunity. Again. This is quite the pace for Major League Baseball and the players’ union. In the 2020s, the owners and the players have already blown two chances to […]
Peng Shuai at the Australian Open in 2020.Credit…Andy Brownbill/Associated Press BEIJING — Peng Shuai, the Chinese tennis player who largely disappeared from public life after making sexual abuse accusations against a political official in November, held a private meeting with Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, in Beijing over the weekend. The […]
Australia had never sent curlers to compete in the Winter Olympics. Not exactly known for its domination in winter sports, the country didn’t even have a dedicated facility where a curling team could train. So to prepare for Beijing, Dean Hewitt and Tahli Gill — Australia’s first mixed doubles curling team — went to Canada. […]
ImageKamila Valieva of Russia had the highest score of the women’s short program in the team competition.Credit…Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times As Kamila Valieva glided across the ice, a shower of camera shutters echoed through the Olympic figure skating arena. She was the skater to watch on the second day of the team event, and […]
