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Takagi earns surprise silver in 500 meters; Kodaira finishes 17th

BEIJING -- Speed skater Miho Takagi collected her second silver medal at the Beijing Games on Sunday, finishing second in the women's 500 meters with a new personal best of 37.12 seconds at the National Speed Skating Oval.

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Pursuit of basics brings Takagi 2nd silver

Miho Takagi scooped her second silver medal of the Beijing Games in the women's 500-meter speed skating event on Sunday. The 27-year-old is no newcomer to the Olympics, however, having competed in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics while a third-year junior high schooler.

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American Erin Jackson wins historic speed skating gold at Beijing Winter Olympics

American Erin Jackson becomes the first black woman to win a Winter Olympics medal, taking gold in the 500 metres at the Beijing Games.

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IOC to take no action against sign-waving skeleton racer as Ukrainian officials call for peace

Vladyslav Heraskevych, who held up a sign with a Ukrainian flag and the message "No War in Ukraine" after completing a run in the skeleton competition, escapes sanctions at the Beijing Games.

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Olympics Live: Germany's Neise captures skeleton gold

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US says Russian invasion of Ukraine could happen any moment amid emergency diplomatic efforts

There is a ‘credible prospect’ of Russia launching an attack before the Beijing Games end

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Shaun White fails to medal in his final Olympics

Mikaela Shiffrin made it across the finish line of The Rock course on the Alpine hill for the first time in three races in the Beijing Games. She placed ninth in the super-G, well off the pace set by gold medalist Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland.

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Local Fans Allowed inside Olympic Bubble

Some local fans are getting to watch the Beijing Games in person, though it’s not clear exactly how they were selected for a visit inside the tightly controlled Olympic bubble. As part of the strict measures intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at the Games, athletes, reporters and others…

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Russian Skater Valieva Failed Drug Test Taken before Her Golden Games Debut

Figure skating sensation Kamila Valieva won a gold medal having earlier failed a drug test and Olympic officials will fight Russia's decision to let her compete at the Winter Games, the International Testing Agency (ITA) said on Friday. The 15-year-old's gold medal and Games future now hangs in the balance…

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BEIJING SNAPSHOT: Local fans allowed inside Olympic bubble

Some local fans are getting to watch the Beijing Games in person, but it’s not clear exactly how they were selected for a visit inside the Olympic bubble

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Lindsey Jacobellis waits 16 years to celebrate gold after blunder for the ages

BEIJING — Lindsey Jacobellis on Wednesday won the first gold medal for USA at the Beijing Games, besting the field in snowboard cross.

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Golden moment: Nathan Chen wins long-sought Olympic title

Nathan Chen followed his record short program at the Beijing Games with a near-perfect free skate Thursday that earned him a long-awaited Olympic gold medal and standing ovation from a crowd of supporters inside historic Capital Indoor Stadium

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Chloe Kim successfully defends Olympic title, wins gold in snowboard halfpipe

ZHANJIAKOU, China — Chloe Kim, the teenage snowboarding sensation from the 2018 Olympics, successfully defended her halfpipe title Thursday, winning gold for the United States at the Beijing Games.

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Olympics Live: Germany sweeps luge golds with team relay

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Helene Elliott: U.S. men's hockey decides to go with young players

BEIJING — The U.S. men's hockey team hasn't won Olympic gold since Herb Brooks' young, energetic college kids overcame prohibitive odds — and the mighty Soviets — before becoming champions in 1980. Hoping to end that drought, architects of the U.S. men's roster for the Beijing Games reached back to…

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Shiffrin’s Washout Olympics Reminiscent of Biles and Osaka’s Tokyo Flop

Mikaela Shiffrin was expected to cement her position at the top of her sport at the Beijing Games, but after not being able to finish any of her races so far, her story echoes that of fellow elite athletes Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka at the Tokyo Games. But while…

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AP PHOTOS: Olympic rings easy to find at Beijing Games

Five interlocking rings — sometimes in different colors, sometimes not. That simplest of symbols is easy to take for granted after all these years. When a city hosts the Olympics, it becomes ubiquitous, easy to take for granted but still a powerful reminder of the significance of this event.

The Independent UK

Cochran-Siegle skis to US Olympic medal 50 years after Mom

Ryan Cochran-Siegle's silver in the super-G at the Beijing Games has given the United States its first men's Alpine skiing Olympic medal since 2014

Asharq Al-Awsat

Olympic Organizers: 32 Athletes in Isolation for COVID

More than 30 athletes at the Beijing Olympics are in isolation facilities after testing positive for the coronavirus, organizers said Tuesday. The average stay in isolation is seven days. “We will allow as many people out of isolation as we can, but only as many as we can do safely,”…

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Olympics Live: Klaebo keeps title, Sundling win women's gold

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Figure Skating-Russians Win Team Gold, Valieva First Woman to Land Games Quads

Russian figure skaters claimed the team gold medal at the Beijing Games on Monday, with Kamila Valieva landing the first quadruple jumps by a woman in Olympic competition. The United States took silver while Japan clinched the bronze. The Russians had sewn up the gold even before the women's singles…

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Olympics Live: China's Ren wins gold in contentious final

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Olympics Live: Defending champ Shiffrin out of giant slalom

Defending Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin has missed a gate early in the first run of the giant slalom at the Beijing Games on Monday and been disqualified from the event

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