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Helene Elliott: U.S. strategy to go young pays off as men's hockey team beats Canada, 4-2

BEIJING — Building their roster around college kids, while giving those kids enough freedom to be creative and enough structure to feel secure, paid off again with a victory for the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team.

Los Angeles Times

Team GB face prospect of returning empty-handed from Beijing Games

Hopes of winning between three and seven medals at the Winter Olympics have faded due to a combination of bad luck and poor tech

The Guardian - UK

Hong Kong officials seek Beijing’s help to combat COVID-19 outbreak

HONOG KONG — China’s central government will give full support to Hong Kong as the city’s worsening outbreak strains health care resources and threatens its COVID-Zero strategy, Chief Secretary John Lee said after a meeting with mainland officials to ask for urgent pandemic support.

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Laura Peel leads aerials charge at Beijing Winter Olympics, fuelled by Australia’s astonishing medal record in freestyle skiing

Laura Peel, Danielle Scott and Gabi Ash will look to claim gold in the aerials, backed by the history of those that came before them in what is Australia’s most successful Winter Olympics event.

ABC News

China has strict rules for dual citizenship, but apparently not when it comes to elite athletes

China has entered a record number of athletes in this year's Beijing Winter Olympics, but many of the competitors representing Team China were born and trained in foreign countries, like the US.

ABC News

Jaclyn Narracott makes history with Beijing Olympic skeleton silver medal

Brisbane's Jaclyn Narracott has made Olympic history by winning Australia's first sliding medal with a silver in the women's skeleton.

The New Daily

Russian skater Kamila Valieva faces becoming youngest banned Olympian in history

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, 15, waits to find out if she will be ejected from the Beijing Winter Olympics over doping allegations after gold medal win

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Scottish ice dancer Lewis Gibson pinpoints the key factor that makes him and partner Lilah Fear unique at Winter Olympic Games

Gibson, from Prestwick, and American-born Fear sit tenth in Beijing after their rhythm dance on Saturday

Daily Record

Eve Muirhead reveals how a day of Beijing relaxation got Team GB's curlers back on track at Winter Olympic Games

Muirhead, Jennifer Dodds, Vicky Wright and Hailey Duff recovered from a defeat against Korea to beat the USA 10-5 on Saturday

Daily Record

Today at the Winter Olympics: Kamila Valieva facing anxious wait in doping saga

The 15-year-old Russian figure skater’s troubling situation continued to overshadow the action in Beijing.

The Independent UK

Queries on doping, harassment, ineptitude at Olympics

The biggest questions at the Beijing Olympics hardly centered on who would win the six gold medals up for grabs

The Independent UK

Winter Olympics 2022: China win first men’s speed skating gold; latest Team GB news; results and medal table

Gao Tingyu won China’s first ever men’s speed skating gold at the Winter Olympics as he came out on top in the 500m event in Beijing.

Evening Standard

Katherine Grainger on why Team GB's Beijing medal haul is not make or break for Britain's Winter Olympic fortunes

Team GB won five medals at PyeongChang 2018 but are still yet to bank a spot on the podium in the Chinese capital after UK Sport had set an ambitious target of three to seven medals

Daily Record

Scottish figure skater Lewis Gibson reveals his Disney-inspired musical medley of choice at Winter Olympics

Gibson, from Prestwick, and dance partner Lilah Fear are hoping to build on their fifth-place finish at the European Championships in Beijing

Daily Record

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The Guardian - UK

Benjamin Alexander, Jamaica’s unlikely skier out to be an inspiration

The Northampton-born 38-year-old did not try the sport until 2015 but is representing Jamaica at the Beijing Winter Olympics

The Independent UK

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Gao Wins China Its First Men’s Speed Skating Gold

Gao Tingyu won China its first men's speed skating gold on Saturday, smashing the Olympic record to cross the finish line in 34.32 seconds as spectators cheered him on in the men's 500 meters at the Beijing Olympics. He set the pace early as the seventh pairing out of 15,…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Morishige skates to bronze in 500

Wataru Morishige won the bronze medal in the men's 500 meters in speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Saturday, giving Japan its first men's medal in the sport since 2010 to salvage an otherwise disappointing competition for the Japanese.

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Decision on Russia’s Valieva Expected Monday

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva will find out Monday if she can skate in the Winter Olympics women's competition, which starts a day later. The Court of Arbitration for Sport announced Saturday that the expedited hearing on Valieva's doping case will be held Sunday night in Beijing, with a ruling…

The Independent UK

AP PHOTOS: COVID-19 tests at Olympics not just for people

It’s not just people inside Beijing’s Olympic bubble who are getting tested for COVID-19. Workers in hazmat suits are also swabbing door handles, elevator buttons, couches and ATM machines, though health experts say surfaces pose little risk for spreading the virus.

The Guardian - UK

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics daily briefing: golds for the snowboard olds

Lindsey Jacobellis and Nick Baumgartner become the oldest snowboarders to win any Olympic medal with mixed team victory

Los Angeles Times

Olympic athletes deal with expectations, which leads to crushing pressure

BEIJING — The world’s most famous skier had kicked off her skis and dropped her poles. Sitting alone in the snow, she buried her head in her hands.

The Independent UK

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‘Clean and innocent’: Valieva’s coach breaks silence with Cas to decide teen’s fate

Kamila Valieva, the 15-year-old skater at the eye of a doping storm in Beijing, is set to learn her fate on Monday.

The Independent UK

Russian coach produces teen skating stars with short careers

Eteri Tutberidze's young pupils have dominated women's figure skating for the past eight years

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