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Snowboarder Nick Baumgartner Celebrates First Olympic Gold at Age 40

Nick Baumgartner became the oldest snowboarder to medal at the Olympics, but it didn't come without a suspenseful wait.

Sports Illustrated

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 Guardian - UK

AP News Digest 7 a.m.

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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,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kamila Valieva: Russian figure skater, 15, to find out on Monday whether she can stay in Winter Olympics

The 15-year-old tested positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine

The Independent 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

The Guardian - UK

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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.

Los Angeles Times

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The Independent UK

Roundup of Olympic gold medals from Saturday, Feb. 12

The Independent UK

Kamila Valieva: Spotlight turns on 15-year-old Russian skater’s Olympic entourage after failed drug test

The International Olympic Committee and World Anti-Doping Agency are fighting against the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s decision to allow Kamila Valieva to compete at the Winter Games

The Independent UK

Fujisawa gives Japan thrilling win over Denmark in women's curling

BEIJING -- Skip Satsuki Fujisawa's super shot with the final stone gave Japan three points and a dramatic 8-7 come-from-behind victory over Denmark in women's curling at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Saturday.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Olympics-Mitigating factors in six-week delay for Valieva's test result

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Reuters

Valieva's doping case on the docket at Beijing Olympics

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva broke down in tears after an emotional practice session at the Olympics while her doping case is still to be decided

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The trick that uncorked a gold-medal run for Hirano

BEIJING -- For Ayumu Hirano, it wasn't a big finish that gave him the gold medal in the men's halfpipe, but the mind-boggling way he started his winning run at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

The Guardian - AU

Old dogs’ new tricks win US gold in inaugural team snowboard

After waiting 16 years to win a first Olympic gold medal, Lindsey Jacobellis captured her second in four days on Saturday after pairing with Nick Baumgartner to win the inaugural mixed team snowboard cross event

ABC News

After five Winter Olympics, American snowboarding superstar Shaun White bids a teary farewell

The greatest snowboarder of all time enters retirement, having been narrowly denied one final glory by athletes he helped inspire using tricks he helped innovate.

The Independent UK

Winter Olympics: No medal for Charlotte Bankes after fifth place in mixed team snowboard cross

The 26-year-old Bankes arrived at the Winter Olympics as reigning world champion but her Games have not gone to plan

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The Independent UK

Mental health hovers over Olympics, on its way to mainstream

Mental health was the breakout star at the Tokyo Olympics

Reuters

Olympics - Coach defends skater Valieva, CAS to hold Sunday hearing on case

The Russian coach of the 15-year-old figure skater embroiled in an Olympic doping scandal broke her silence to defend Kamila Valieva on Saturday, while the sport's highest court said it would hold a hearing on Valieva's Winter Games future on Sunday.

Sports Illustrated

Adam Rippon Defends ROC Figure Skater Kamila Valieva Amid Positive Drug Test Reports

The former Olympic figure skater took Kamila Valieva's side after reports surfaced that she failed a drug test in December.

The Guardian - UK

Winter Olympics 2022 day eight: skeleton, women’s curling and more – as it happened

Updates from day eight of the winter Games as Jaclyn Narracott took Australia’s first ever medal in skeleton

The Hindu

Pole vault’s puzzle-master aims for the stars

Already an Olympic gold-medallist and world record holder, Armand Duplantis isn’t satisfied. The 22-year-old is piecing together all facets of his game in a bid to become the greatest of all time

ABC News

Australian snowboard cross team faces up to disappointing Beijing Winter Olympics after both teams crash in team event

Australia's snowboard cross athletes end their Winter Olympics campaign without a medal, while Belle Brockhoff is taken to hospital for scans after crashing out of the mixed team event.

Los Angeles Times

Lindsey Jacobellis and Nick Baumgartner win gold for U.S. in mixed snowboard cross

BEIJING — In four Olympics, Nick Baumgartner was missing just one thing.

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