Therese Johaug of Norway after winning the 15-kilometer women’s skiathlon cross-country race at the National Cross-Country Center in Zhangjiakou.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times Therese Johaug of Norway won the first gold medal of the Beijing Games on Saturday, dominating the 15-kilometer skiathlon after opening a commanding lead midway through the race that determines the world’s […]
So that’s it for the warm-up: the pyrotechnics and the puffer jackets, the calls for unity and the power politics, the Italians in their tricolor Armani capes and the American Samoan in, well, not much of anything. Hours after host China opened its first Winter Olympics with an opening ceremony that was so meticulously choreographed […]
Feb. 4, 2022, 9:06 a.m. ET Feb. 4, 2022, 9:06 a.m. ET China’s leader, Xi Jinping, during the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.Credit…James Hill for The New York Times President Vladimir V. Putin was there, rising out of his seat and waving to Russia’s team as it entered the Bird’s Nest. So were the […]
ImageNathan Chen of the United States skating in the team competition on Friday in Beijing.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times With seamless footwork and high-flying quadruple jumps, Nathan Chen, the gold medal favorite in figure skating’s men’s singles event, easily finished first on Friday in the men’s short program of the team event, giving the U.S. […]
The Winter Olympics will go forward. They always do. The opening ceremony is Friday in China, which is hosting the celebration of sport and unity even as it is caught in the cross hairs of international controversy over its record on human rights. Amid the hoopla and celebration, the Beijing government will be asked about […]
Through tears, Kim Meylemans explained how she had thought her nightmare was over. Meylemans, a skeleton racer from Belgium, had only recently returned to competition after a bout with the coronavirus in early January when she departed for Beijing on Sunday. A dozen negative tests in the weeks before her departure for the Winter Olympics […]
Through tears, Kim Meylemans explained how she had thought her nightmare was over. Meylemans, a skeleton racer from Belgium, had only recently returned to competition after a bout with the coronavirus in early January when she departed for Beijing on Sunday. A dozen negative tests in the weeks before her departure for the Winter Olympics […]
In a postgame interview, Brady’s face was flushed, his hair tousled like a child coming in from the playground. He was informed that Madden, before the game’s final drive, had insisted that the Patriots should be playing conservatively, settling for overtime. “Madden was worried you’d do something stupid,” a reporter said. Brady, then 24, looked […]
Brady was surrounded by members of the media after defeating the Falcons in the Super Bowl in 2017.Credit…Timothy A. Clary/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The weekend before Tom Brady officially retired, speculation about his exit from football hit a crescendo with conflicting and vague reports about his plans, prompting his team to say it had […]
Tom Brady is not ready to announce what’s next for him after 22 N.F.L. seasons and seven Super Bowl rings. In his first public comments since ESPN reported that he would be retiring, Brady said on Monday night he was “still going through the process” of making a decision on his future. “Sometimes it takes […]
