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Call made for gold medal winning curlers to be given the Freedom of Perth

Perthshire pair Eve Muirhead and Mili Smith represented Team GB at the Winter Olympics in Beijing

Daily Record

Lanarkshire primary school pupils going for gold in events to mark the Winter Olympics

Greenburn Primary School brought Beijing to East Kilbride with a fun-filled day of activities

Daily Record

Spanish figure skater becomes fourth athlete to fail doping test at Winter Olympics

Laura Barquero is the latest athlete to test positive for a banned substance at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, having failed a sample before finishing 11th in the pairs skating event

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Stephen Colbert on Ukraine crisis: ‘Once you’re shelling, that’s pretty much direct military action’

Late-night hosts discuss intelligence reports that Russia will invade Ukraine, Trump’s botched social media app and a case of frozen penis at the Winter Olympics.

The Guardian - US

Ouch! NBC's Winter Olympics Coverage Down 42% From Four Years Earlier

The Beijing Winter Olympics was anything but a gold medal performance for Comcast Corp.’s (NASDAQ: CMCSA) NBCUniversal division, with viewership down 42% from the 2018 games held in PyeongChang, South Korea.

Benzinga

West Lothian short-track speed skater Elise Christie targets 2026 Winter OIympics just three months after retiring

The 31-year-old admitted in an interview with the BBC that she has got the urge to compete back and is targeting the 2026 Winter Olympics

Daily Record

Zhang Wenhong: Beijing Winter Olympics Sets Perfect Example for How to Bring People Together Amid Pandemic

The closed-loop management system of the winter games demonstrated a new possibility for pandemic control and communication among people from different part of the world

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Dumfries and Galloway curlers taste medal glory at Beijing Winter Olympics

Vicky Wright took gold in the women's event, with Grant Hardie, Hammy McMillan, Bobby Lammie and Ross Whyte taking silver in the men's competition

Daily Record

La Velle E. Neal III: China should never have been allowed to hold these Olympics

BEIJING – Sports fans have been forced to gaze toward China this month as it held a Winter Olympics it should have never been allowed to hold.

Tribune News Service

For Chinese leaders, Olympics weren't 2022's big-ticket item

The just-concluded Winter Olympics aren’t China’s big event of the year

The Independent UK

Beijing Winter Olympics viewership drops to record low

The event still drew a sizable digital audience, per NBC.

Axios

ROC figure skater Kamila Valieva thanks coaches on social media following doping controversy at Winter Olympics

Home in Russia after a distressing and difficult Winter Olympics, figure skater Kamila Valieva thanks her coaches as the teenager awaits the resolution of a doping case.

ABC News

Golden tribute planned in Blair Atholl to mark Eve Muirhead's success at Winter Olympics

Eatery in Muirhead's home Perthshire village to get the paint out and celebrate the medal achievement in style

Daily Record

Cross-country skier pokes fun at himself after suffering frozen penis at Winter Olympics

It was agony at the time, but it seems Remi Lindholm has recovered enough to see the funny side of going viral around the world over his bizarre injury

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The Guardian - UK

Winter Olympics funding will not just be guided by medals, says UK sport chair

Katherine Grainger has said grassroots participation will help to determine future funding for Winter Olympic sports as well as medal potential

AFP

Italy's Brignone unsure of Milan-Cortina 'dream'

Milan (AFP) - Federica Brignone said Monday that she is unsure whether she will take part in the 2026 Winter Olympics on home turf after capturing silver at the Beijing Games.

Daily Record

Skier suffers frozen penis at Winter Olympics leaving him in 'unbearable' pain

The Finnish cross-country skier revealed he was left with a tender member after his 76 minutes on the course.

The Independent UK

Team GB fall short of Winter Olympic medal target despite curling continuing gold streak

Great Britain have struck gold at the last four Winter Games but UK Sport’s pre-Games target of three to seven medals was not met in Beijing

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The Guardian - UK

Winter Olympics: highs, lows, heroes and villains of Beijing 2022

Our writers pick their best moments, from Alexandra Trusova’s extraordinary rant to Erin Jackson’s groundbreaking gold

The Independent UK

AP PHOTOS: Bye bye bubble — but 1 final zero-COVID reminder

Leaving the Winter Olympics brings one full circle with a final early morning visit to an eerily empty Beijing airport.

AFP

After Beijing Winter Olympics, China eyes World Cup goal

Beijing (AFP) - After staging both a Summer and now a Winter Olympics, there is one major international sports event left for China to host -- the football World Cup.

The New Daily

Beijing Winter Olympics closes with a plea for world peace

Beijing signed off on the 2022 Winter Olympics in style, passing the baton to Italy’s Milano Cortina with a simple but elegant closing ceremony.

ABC News

COVID-affected Beijing Games should not detract from a thrilling Winter Olympics

The Beijing Winter Olympics were shaped inexorably by the COVID-19 prevention measures put in place, but this did not stop the Games from delivering countless performances that will go down in history, writes Simon Smale.

The Independent UK

Today at the Winter Olympics: British women’s curling team win gold on final day

Eve Muirhead and her crew of Vicky Wright, Jennifer Dodds and Hailey Duff, plus alternate Mili Smith, dominated their final against Japan.

The Independent UK

Kamila Valieva saga casts shadow over curtain call for cheerless Winter Olympics

Locked down beneath half-empty grandstands with ‘No Cheering’ signs, Beijing was the Games that fun forgot.

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