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U.S. Ski & Snowboard is investigating longtime Olympic coach Peter Foley as well as Olympic snowboard racer Hagen Kearney after allegations surfaced that the former took pictures of naked female athletes and the latter used racist language to antagonize a teammate. Former snowboardcross rider and member of the 2010 Olympic team Callan Chythlook-Sifsof wrote on Instagram that, in addition to the photos, Foley had also made inappropriate comments, and Kearney repeatedly used the N-word to “intentionally get under my skin.” Chythlook-Sifsof hails from Alaska and identifies as Yupik and Inupiaq. “...
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Olympic bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor found herself on the podium again, this time as a silver-medalist in monobob, behind Team U.S.A. teammate Kaillie Humphries. Meyers Taylor, one of the best bobsledders in the world, medaled in as many Olympic games as she’s competed in: four. This Olympics is different for Meyers Taylor because she now has a son. She gave birth to Nico in 2020. She is just one of two mothers competing in the 2022 Winter Olympics. “Preparing for the Olympics as a mom has been quite a journey,” she told uInterview before the games. “In Beijing, they’ve made sure to take car...
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Kaillie Humphries cruised to her third career Olympic gold medal last week, and the win was especially sweet considering her personal journey over the last four years. The Canadian-born athlete competed in her fourth Olympics, but first as a member of Team USA. She requested to leave Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton in 2018 after filing a harassment complaint. Humpheries was granted dual Canadian-American citizenship back in December. uInterview interviewed her before her citizenship status came through about the waiting game and her anticipation of competing for Team USA in the Olympics for the firs...
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Beijing Olympics gold medalist Eileen Gu has found herself in hot water with some fans after divulging a potentially illegal way to avoid internet censorship at the games. “Why can you use Instagram and millions of Chinese people from mainland cannot,” an Instagram user asked on one of her posts. “That’s not fair, can you speak up for those millions of Chinese who don’t have internet freedom.” “Anyone can download a vpn its literally free on the App Store,” Gu said, and added a thumbs-up emoji. A VPN, virtual private network, can be used to change one’s location—enabling the ability to eschew ...
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Not even three months after becoming a U.S. citizen, Kaillie Humphries brought home a gold medal. The monobob gold she won on Monday was her third overall (two-man in 2014 and 2010, when she was representing Canada). Her 1.54-second margin of victory is the largest in an Olympic bobsled race in 42 years. She was given a U.S. flag as she exited her apparatus and, with a grin, she chanted “U-S-A! U-S-A!” “This one feels more emotional than most,” Humphries said. “It just really hits the heartstrings a little bit to know that I had to fight so hard for something that I wanted, and I had the backi...
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The latest in the ongoing saga of Kamila Valieva and her pre-Olympics failed doping test includes her lawyers saying that the 15-year-old skater failed because of contamination from her grandfather’s medication. Indeed, part of the Russian’s defense is “contamination which happened with a product her grandfather was taking.” The argument was made at a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearing late Sunday night, during which judges eventually ruled Monday that she can compete in the women’s individual eventdespite testing positive for a banned heart medication. The investigation will continu...
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Team USA bobsledder Aja Evans came out of retirement to compete in the Bejing Olympic Games. Evans originally competed in the 2018 Olympic Games and announced her retirement shortly after. “It was kind of a decision I made for myself, I think that so much of my adulthood and my identity was built around this Olympic journey which I love and has grown to be a really strong part of my life but it felt like I needed to give myself the room to grow in other ways and see where I wanted to go, what I wanted to do and try different things,” she said. “So for me in retiring it gave me that pass to be ...
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The IOC has said that “in the interest of fairness to all athletes” there will be no medal ceremony if Russian teenager Kamila Valieva places in the top three in the women’s individual figure skating competition. The organization added that it will “organize dignified medal ceremonies once the case of Ms. Valieva has been concluded.” She was cleared to compete in the event despite failing a pre-games drug test, and now she’s in line to attempt a second gold medal in Beijing. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) issued the ruling less than 12 hours after a meeting ended early Monday morning...
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Team USA figure skater Alexa Knierim is ready to take on the ice in the Bejing Winter Olympic Games and she has a secret weapon. Skittles. “Last season when we were training sometimes I would have Skittles before we would do a long program, just for an extra hype,” she said. “So then it just became this thing now that every time we travel to our competitions I always bring Skittles and I shove a handful down right before we take the ice for the warmup.” Skittles aren’t the only tool at her disposal of course, as she also has hard work and dedication to thank for making it this far, and she hop...
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Zachary Donohue is competing on Team USA’s figure skating team during the Bejing Olympic Games. Before the games, Donohue took some time to think about the impact Covid had on both his sport and his relationship with his partner, Madison Hubbell. “Covid was an amazing opportunity for both of us, but I especially saw it in Maddie to step back from skating and find value in ourselves outside of the sport and in our own individuality,” he said. “As a woman, as a plant mom, as an artist, an athlete, it’s been really cool watching Maddie kinda cast off all of these stresses and labels and difficult...
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