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It’s not uncommon for an Olympic athlete to be in pain during the games. It is uncommon, though, for the provided food to be the root cause of that pain. Well, that’s exactly the situation in which Russian biathlete Valeria Vasnetsova finds herself. Qu…

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 rel…

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 te…

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…

Just two days aftercrashing out of her first run in Monday’s giant slalom, American Mikaela Shiffrin failed to make it past five gates in Wednesday’s slalom after, skiing off-line just seconds into her run. “It feels like a really big let-down,” she sa…

Team USA bobsledder Josh Williamson will be representing the United States in the Bejing Winter Olympic Games. Williamson originally competed to qualify for the 2018 games but didn’t make the cut. He was still new to the sport at the time and considers…

Nathan Chen shattered the world record during his short program at the Beijing Olympics—scoring 113.97 Tuesday to beat the previous mark of his nemesis Yuzuru Hanyu and put himself in a position to win his elusive gold medal. The 22-year-old Chen aveng…

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are underway. In case you missed any of Day 2’s action, below is a comprehensive roundup of the second day’s events. – The second day of the Winter Olympics brought Team USA its first two medals of the Games (slopestyle…

Chock up another medal for the U.S. “Yes!” Madison Chock said as Karen Chen landed a jump. Chock and Evan Bates were in the mixed zone after a media session Monday, watching as Chen took the ice. The pair embraced in a hug after Chen landed another, as…

Mikaela Shiffrin’s quest for history “was finished basically before it even started.” Headed down “The Ice River” just after 9:30 a.m. on Monday trying to become the first U.S. skier ever to win three Olympic gold medals, Shiffrin—11 seconds into her 2…