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Team GB speed-skating couple spent Valentine's Day eating KFC in the Winter Olympic bubble: 'Who said romance was dead?'
Team GB speed skaters Ellia Smeding and Cornelius Kersten became official back in 2018 and went on …
Maria Noyen
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Russian skater Kamila Valieva's lawyers said her positive drug test was caused by a mix-up with her grandfather's medication: IOC
Valieva's lawyers "presented elements that brought some doubts about her guilt," said Denis Oswald,…
Matthew Loh
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Shaun White is back at the Olympics, but this time he is riding off into the sunset
The greatest rider in snowboarding history spoke to Insider about his new outlook on competition — …
Meredith Cash
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A USA hockey star suffered a gruesome injury minutes into the Olympics that could jeopardize the Americans' gold-medal hopes
Star forward Brianna Decker went down 10 minutes into Team USA's first game of the Beijing Olympics…
Meredith Cash
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Olympic figure skating champion Yuna Kim blasts decision to allow Kamila Valieva to compete after failed doping test
Kamila Valieva, a 15-year-old Russian figure skater, tested positive for the banned drug Trimetazid…
Rebecca Cohen
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Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva tested positive for trimetazidine, a banned drug. Here's what that is.
Figure skating star Kamila Valieva tested positive for trimetazidine, a heart medication banned fro…
Gabby Landsverk
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The Olympics' artificial snow requires the equivalent of a day's worth of drinking water for 900 million people. Experts say it's the unfortunate future of winter sports.
To make enough Olympic snow, Beijing had to find at least 200 million gallons of extra water in one…
Matthew Loh
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Could doping spell the end for Russian skating prodigy Kamila Valieva?
Russian figure-skating prodigy Kamila Valieva, a top contender for Olympic gold, is suspected of fa…
Gabrielle Paluch
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Beijing says the cost of hosting the 2022 Winter Games is among the cheapest ever at $3.9 billion. But the real cost might more than $38.5 billion, 10 times the reported amount.
China says its 2022 Winter Games are the least expensive in two decades, but the real sum of hostin…
Cheryl Teh,Joel Stonington
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An ex-Olympian faced criticism from a biathlete fighting for Ukraine after saying Russian athletes shouldn't be banned from competing
Simon Fourcade says banning Russian and Belarusian biathletes equates to punishing people for thing…
Barnaby Lane
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An Olympic gold medal-winning skater married to Putin's spokesman is the latest Russian sports star slapped with sanctions
Tatiana Navka, who won ice dancing gold at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, is the wife of Vladimir …
Barnaby Lane
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15-year-old Kamila Valieva should 'suffer the consequences' of her failed drugs test, an ex-US Olympian and world champion skater says
Many in the skating community have defended the teenager, saying she's likely to have been doped by…
Barnaby Lane
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A bobsleigh phenom who won 2 Olympic gold medals for Canada won her 3rd just months after becoming a US citizen
Kaillie Humphries stopped competing for Canada in 2019 after making allegations of harassment again…
Barnaby Lane
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A winter Olympian won bronze and broke down in tears 3 months after leaving an event in a wheelchair
Tatiana Ivanova won a bronze medal at the Winter Olympics in Beijing, just months after fracturing …
Alan Dawson
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Mikaela Shiffrin wanted to call her late father after her crushing disappointments at the 2022 Olympic Games
This was Mikaela Shiffrin's first-ever Olympic Games without her father, who died two years ago. An…
Alan Dawson
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Everyone keeps reminding Shaun White of how old he is, especially compared to his Olympics competitors
The 35-year-old Olympic snowboarding legend told Insider about moments when opponents who grew up w…
Meredith Cash
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A 36-year-old US snowboarder finally won gold, 16 years after one of the most spectacular blow-ups in Winter Olympic history cost her victory
Lindsey Jacobellis crashed while celebrating an imminent victory just before the finish line of the…
Barnaby Lane
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Five women were disqualified from the Olympic ski-jump event because their clothes were too baggy
The skiers from Austria, Norway, Germany, and Japan were said to be wearing loose-fitting clothes t…
Scott Davis
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Monobob is the Winter Olympics' newest rocket-on-ice sport and it is only for women
The Winter Olympics keeps finding new ways for athletes to slide down ice at high speed.
Cork Gaines
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A Team USA biathlete is likely missing his first child's birth to attend his final Olympics
Leif Nordgren, 32, is competing in his third and final Winter Olympics. His wife is due to give bir…