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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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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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A member of the Jamaican bobsled team has high hopes for the Olympics—so high, in fact, that they have never been matched. Indeed, Sheffield Hallam University student Ashley Watson is part of the four-man bobsled team competing in Beijing, and he thinks his team can record the nation’s highest-ever placing at a Winter Olympics. It’s the first time in 24 years that a four-man crew will represent Jamaica—shadowing the legendary 1988 team that inspired the 1993 movie Cool Runnings. The 1988 games in Calgary were Jamaica’s debut in bobsled. The team—Devon Harris, Dudley Stokes, Michael White and N...
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Twenty-one-year-old American snowboarder Chloe Kim notched her second straight Olympic gold medal in the halfpipe at the 2022 Beijing Games on Thursday. Kim scored 94 points to take the lead in the field of 12 on the first of her three runs—a lead to which no one caught up. That first run included a pair of 1080s, a switch 900, and a switch backside 540. “Oh, my God. I had the worst practice of my life,” cameras caught her saying after her run. On her second and third runs, Kim tried to go big with a 1260 but fell each time. Spain’s Queralt Castellet came in second to win silver, and Japan’s S...
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Target acquired! A near-perfect performance head and shoulders above the competition earned American Nathan Chen his first Olympic Gold medal in the men’s single skating competition. The favorite headed into Thursday’s event in Beijing, the 22-year-old Chen nailed his win with a long program filled to the gills with moves—quadruple flip, triple toe loop, a total of five quad jumps, including a quadruple lutz, each of which were nailed—that illustrate why he earned the nickname “quad king.” In doing so, he became the first American since Evan Lysacek in 2010 to win gold in a men’s figure skatin...
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After a fall in the first qualifying round, the most successful halfpipe rider in history rose to the occasion Wednesday and pulled off a do-or-die run—and now Shaun White is in the medal round at his fifth and final Olympics. “I can’t tell you the relief I felt off that last hit,” White said. “It was just the thrill and excitement to be going to finals.” White, 35, earned the finals trip after he eased up on “The Tomahawk”—a trick he invented more than a decade ago that includes a frontside takeoff and 1260-degree diagonal, off-axis angle. “I was thinking a lot about that, like, how if the ne...
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Wednesday that the medal ceremony for team figure skating would be delayed because of “legal consultation.” The delay was reportedly due to a positive drug test of one member of Russia’s six-person team, though names have not been named. Russian athletes are competing as Team Russian Olympic Committee as a consequence of a 2019 doping scandal. The ceremony for the Russian-won event was first moved from Monday to Tuesday evening before its indefinite postponement. “A situation arose at short notice that requires legal consultation,” IOC spokes...
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U.S. snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis set a lot of firsts on her fifth try. The 36-year-old won her first gold medal on Wednesday (women’s snowboard cross) to give her country its first such hardware of the 2022 games. She also became the oldest American woman to win a Winter gold. You can call it redemption for her devastating loss (though she wouldn’t) at the 2006 Torino Olympics, during which she celebrated prior to crossing the finish line and wiped out. She also failed to medal in the Pyeongchang, Sochi and Vancouver Olympics. “I never thought of it that way [redemption],” she said. “That w...
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