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Simone Biles and Lindsey Vonn among US sports stars rushing to support Mikaela Shiffrin after the American star’s nightmarish Games start

American gold medal hope Mikaela Shiffrin has admitted she may not compete again in the Beijing Winter Olympics after crashing out of her second alpine skiing race in a row

Born in nationalism, the Olympic games are fading into a niche entertainment option.

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They said he should play football. They said figure skating was for girls.

Lindsey Jacobellis finally takes glory, but it is an agonising day for medal hopes Mikaela Shiffrin and Charlotte Bankes

A final roll of the Winter Olympics dice paid off for American snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis, who finally won snowboarding gold almost two decades after showboating cost her the ultimate prize

Great Britain are targeting between three and seven medals in Beijing

Despite social media criticism, China's naturalization strategy has proven effective, in both yielding Olympic gold and showing the true meaning of sports

Following a disqualification from her second consecutive race in Beijing, the 26-year-old is searching for answers to explain the unfathomable results, but says she's “not scared to feel a little bit weighed down by some expectations anymore.”

Two-time Olympic silver medalist snowboarder Ayumu Hirano had the best score in the men's halfpipe qualification runs at the Beijing Winter Games on Wednesday, as Japan took a third of the 12 spots in Friday's final.