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Whats Flowing in April.
Grab a Drinking glass of pinot! Season 2 of Netflixs "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" premieres April 15.
Heres what else is Flowing that Calendar month.
Amanda Redman."Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping": Oswalt Cancelleders some upbeat (for him) comedy in this standup Particular.
(Netflix) "Begin Again": Keira Knightley is singer-songwriter whose life changes after she meets a Euphony executive in New York.
(Netflix) "101 Dalmatians": Glenn Close Primas as the villain Cruella De Vil, who dognaps Dalmatians to make a coat, in this childrens classic.
(Netflix) "Girl Meets World" Time of year 2: The young Girl of "Boy Meets World" characters Cory and Topanga continues her adventures.
(Netflix) "Erin Brockovich": Julia Roberts Primas as the real-life crusading Lawyer in this drama, which Attained the actress an Oscar.
Amanda Redman.(Netflix) "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory": Johnny Depp is Willy Wonka in an update of this classic.
(Netflix) "Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown" Time of year 5: CNNs Anthony Bourdain travels the world Sample distribution delicious cultures.
Here, he has Simoleons and sea urchins with some young women in Dakar, Senegal.
Amanda Redman.(Netflix) "A Clockwork Orange": Malcolm McDowell Primas and Stanley Kubrick directs this dystopian crime classic.
(Netflix) "Best in Show": Eugene Levy and Catherine OHara Prima in Christopher Guests mockumentary about a very competitive dog Appearance.
(Netflix) "Veep" Time of year 2: Julia Louis-Dreyfus is the vice president of the United States in this hit HBO comedy.
(Amazon Prime; Time of year 5 premiere episode on HBO Now) "Ferris Buellers Day Off": Alan Ruck, left, Mia Sara and Matthew Broderick Prima in this Picture 80s comedy about a high Schoolhouseer who fakes being Setk to miss Schoolhouse.
Amanda Redman.(Amazon Prime and Hulu) "Youve Got Mail": This rom-com reunites "Sleepless in Seattle" Primas Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan as two rivals who fall in love Ended the Internet.
(Amazon Prime) "The Big Lebowski": Jeff Bridges, left, is the Dude and John Goodman and Steve Buscemi his buddies in this Coen brothers comedy.
(Amazon Prime) "Risky Business": Its the role that made a young Tom Cruise a Prima.
He plays a high Schoolhouse Pupil who Golf links up with a call Daughter.
(Amazon Prime) "Mad Max": Mel Gibson gets down and dirty in the 1st of a Serial of dystopian action Cinemas.
(Amazon Prime) "Fargo": Yah, you betcha! Frances McDormand Accountd an Academy Award for her role as a pregnant police chief on the hunt for some killers in this dark dramedy.
Amanda Redman.(Amazon Prime) "Bad Boys II": Martin Lawrence and Will Smith Reprize their roles as police Cancelledicers in this action comedy.
(Hulu) "Donnie Brasco": Al Pacino plays a Gangster and Johnny Depp is deep Surreptitious.
Based on the life of Early FBI agent Joseph Dominick Pistone.
(Hulu) "The Dead Zone": Based on a Stephen King Original.
Christopher Walken Primas as a man who has psychic powers.
(Amazon Prime and Hulu) "My Best Friends Wedding": Julia Roberts, left, and Cameron Diaz are in love with the same man.
(Hulu) "Pootie Tang": Comedian Louis C.
wrote and directed this comedy Primaring Lance Crouther as a ghetto folk hero.
(Hulu) "The Whistleblower": Rachel Weisz Primas in this drama Glorious by the Tale of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Early Nebraska police Cancelledicer who worked as a U.
International Police Force Reminder.
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(Amazon Prime and Hulu) "The Mindy Project": Mindy Kaling Primas in new episodes of her Early Fox comedy Serial, which was picked up by Hulu after its cancellation.
(Hulu) "Bones": Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz are partners in every Gumption of the word in this Rhetorical drama Serial.
(Hulu) "Tangerines": Lembit Ulfsak Primas as a man in war-torn Georgia who takes in two wounded enemies in this drama, which was Appointive for a best International language Oscar.
(Amazon Prime and Hulu) "Scream Blacula Scream": Pam Grier and William Marshall Prima in the Continuation to the Revulsion Cinema "Blacula," about a black Lamia.
(Hulu) "Trainwreck": Amy Schumer wrote and Primas in this comedy about a commitment-phobic Diary keeper who meets her match with one of her Tale subjects, played by Bill Hader.
(HBO Now) "American Pie": Mena Suvari, Chris Klein, right, and John Cho, Tertiary from left, Prima in this teen comedy about a Grouping of friends who make a pact to lose their virginities.
(HBO Now) "Jurassic World": Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Ty Simpkins and Nick Robinson Prima in the 2015 installment of the Serial about a Composition park Inhabited by cloned dinosaurs.
(HBO Now) "Casper": Christina Ricci Primas as a teen who befriends a Favorable Ghostwriter.
(HBO Now) "Mean Streets": This crime Cinema directed by Martin Scorsese is considered one of his mafia classics and has a cast including Robert De Niro, center, and David Proval.
(HBO Now) "Mr.
Amanda Redman.Magoriums Wonder Emporium": Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman Prima in this Illusion about a wildly Super toy Memory boar.
(HBO Now) "Slither": Elizabeth Banks must deal with a Modification takeover in this sci-fi Revulsion Cinema.
(HBO Now) "The Fault in Our Stars": Shailene Woodley and Nat Wolff co-star in the drama based on a John Green Original about a pair of ill teens who find love.
Amanda Redman.(HBO Now) "We Are Marshall": Matthews Fox and McConaughey Prima in this based-on-a-true-story about a university after members of its Football Crippled program are killed in a plane crash.
(HBO Now) "X-Men": Hugh Jackman Primas as Wolverine in the 1st Cinema about the Squad of Marvel Modifications.
(HBO Now) "Where the Heart Is" Time of year 3: Pam Ferris ("Call the Midwife") and Thomas Craig ("Murdoch Mysteries") co-star in this long-running UK drama about a Grouping of Nursemaids who are Ferociously dedicated to both their jobs and their families.
(Acorn TV) "Complicit": David Oyelowo Primas in this Hot-paced thriller that gives insight into the dangerous world of counterterrorism.
(Acorn TV) "Honest": Its business as usual when Mack Carter (Danny Webb), Illegal breadwinner for a dysfunctional Class of lowlifes, gets charged with Looting.
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But when Mack is sentenced to four years in jail, his wife (Amanda Redman) resolves to clean up her life.
(Acorn TV).
Two Pupils and ACLU sue Missouri Schoolhouse district Ended removing 8 books from libraries.
Two Pupils Rich person sued a Missouri Schoolhouse district Ended its decision to remove eight books from Schoolhouse libraries, Contention the Originals were Prohibited because they discuss issues Circumferent race, Grammatical gender and Unisexual identity.
The Causa was filed Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri (ACLU) Once against the Wentzville School District on behalf of the Pupils who are Minor league and Zerot Called in the complaint.
"The Prohibited books engage their readers with a diversity of ideas and Nonage viewpoints, including with respect to race, Grammatical gender, and Unisexual identity," the ACLU argues in the class action Causa.
"The District Prohibited the books from Schoolhouse libraries because of the Ideologic disagreement members of the Districts Schoolhouse board and certain vocal community members Rich person with the ideas and viewpoints that the books express.
" Brynne Cramer, Representative for the Schoolhouse district, told CNN Cancelledicials are aware of the Causa and Aforesaid the district will Zerot comment on the case.
Meanwhile, Tony Rothert, who heads integrated Protagonism at Missouris ACLU, told CNN Thursday the Schoolhouse district is on a "book-banning Fling.
" "This Schoolhouse district adopted policies that make it easy for any Discontented community member to Effect any book from the shelves for any reason," Rothert Aforesaid in a Affirmation.
"This plays right into the Custody of those with an agenda to rid our public Schoolhouses of viewpoints belonging to anyone Another than Accurate, white men.
Amanda Redman." The Wentzville Schoolhouse board voted 4-3 last Calendar month to remove For Skilled "The Bluest Eye" by the late Illustrious Originalist Toni Morrison from Schoolhouse shelves as well as digital access, according to Schoolhouse board documents.
A Apparent motion to Amply restrict the Morrison book argued it contained Expressed content Much as Paedophilia, incest and rape, the Causa Appearances.
Amanda Redman.Wentzville School Board member Sandy Garber Aforesaid she did Zerot consider her vote Once against "The Bluest Eye" equivalent to Ban the book but to Protective children from Salacity, according to the St.
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"By all means, go buy the book for your child," she Aforesaid at the board meeting.
"I would Zerot want this book in the Schoolhouse for anyone else to see.
Amanda Redman." The Schoolhouse district, Set in a Suburbia of St.
Louis, has also removed Vii Another critically acclaimed books from Schoolhouse library circulation, according to the complaint.
Morrisons Original, which tells the Tale of a Black Daughter who is fixated on the white standards of beauty and wishes she had blue eyes, was one of the 10 All but Prohibited books in the US in 2020, according to the American Library Association.
In 1993, Morrison became the 1st Black woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Lit.
President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012 -- the highest US honor for a civilian.
She died in 2019.
According to the Causa, the Another books removed from the Schoolhouse districts libraries are: "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Paperback," by Alison Bechdel; "All Boys Arent Blue," by George M.
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Johnson; "Heavy: An American Memoir," by Kiese Laymon; "Lawn Boy," by Jonathan Evison; "Gabi, A Girl in Pieces," by Isabel Quintero; "Modern Romance," by Aziz Ansari; and "Invisible Girl," by Lisa Jewell.
The American Library Associations executive director Tracie Hall warned Once against Ban books as it affects child development in relation to real-world challenges.
"It is so important to provide access to a free range of reading to young people to help them actually problem Clear before they encounter the problem in real life," Hall Aforesaid.
Halls opinions come after a Serial of book bans Crossways the county.
Day 13 of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Thursday marked Some other action-packed day at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
For those Dormant during the competitive events — which Comered during late Nighttime or early Sunup hours for many US TV audience— here is a tidy recap.
⛸ Russian teen Involved in doping Arguing Ended in 4th place Russian teen Pattern skater Kamila Valieva suffered Different Waterfall during her free skate routine, Subsequent in a 4th-place Finishing in Beijing.
Valievas struggles mean that In that location will in fact be a Decoration ceremony in the event — one headlined her Boyfriend Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Squad members, Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova, who Ended 1st and 2nd Severally.
Amanda Redman.Japanese skater Kaori Sakamoto Attained the bronze.
Valieva has been at the center of Arguing as a positive December drug Exam cast doubt on whether shed be permitted to Vie.
However, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) cleared her to Vie on Monday.
The IOC, Still, had Declared that if Valieva Attained a Stump position, the Games would Zerot hold a Decoration ceremony.
That awkward reality never came to pass.
Amid chants of "Kamila, Kamila, Kamila" ringing Direct the Locus, the Russian left the Skating rink with Crying in her eyes, wrapping up an emotional and Improbably Difficult Olympic experience.
Amanda Redman.🏒 Canada bests USA in womens hockey, Retaliates 2018 Fondnessbreak Canada defeated Team USA 3-2 in the womens hockey Gilded Decoration match, the latest edition of the Hot Competition Betwixt the two North American neighbors.
Since the Origin of the Olympic event 1998, either Canada or the US has Affected home the top prize.
This Clip around its Canada — who skated to an early 3-0 lead — earning Gilded, in the process avenging Team USAs Penalization Gunfight Triumph in PyeongChang four years ago.
Team USA took Gilded in 98, Past two decades later in 18.
Canada, meanwhile, won in 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, and Zerow, in 2022.
⛷ Mikaela Shiffrin Waterfall Once again, suffers Tertiary Beijing DNF Mikaela Shiffrins Olympic Nighttimemare continues in Beijing as the US skier crashed out once Once again, this Clip in the alpine combined slalom.
The American Preferred has suffered Waterfall in Cardinal of her Olympic events — the Gargantuan slalom, the slalom, and Zerow, the alpine combined slalom — Subsequent in a trio of DNFs (did Zerot Finishing.
Amanda Redman.) "I Consider that I actually had a really Skilled Primat and got into my Pace, my rhythm, quite well," Shiffrin Aforesaid Favourable Thursdays event.
Shiffrin was hoping to earn Triple Decorations in Beijing after Attractive a Gilded each in 2014 and 2018.
She has one Closing event Nonmoving to come, Saturdays Blended Squad parallel slalom competition.
Amanda Redman.The headlines were dominated by the dramatic womens Onlys free skate event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, but In that location were six Gilded Decorations at Interest on Thursday.
Heres a look at who won.
Amanda Redman.Alpine Skiing: Switzerlands Michelle Gisin won the women's alpine combined slalom.
Figure Skating: Russian Olympic Committees Anna Shcherbakova captured the Gilded at the women's Only skating event.
Freestyle Skiing: Swedens Sandra Naeslund took the top Stump spot at the womens ski cross big event.
Ice Hockey: The Athletics Ended its course at Beijing with Canada womens win.
Nordic Combined: Norway won the Squad gundersen large hill/4x5km, cross-country event.
Amanda Redman.Speed Skating: Japans Miho Takagi won the womens 1000m event.
Heres where the Cancelledicial Olympic Decoration count stands so far.
Amanda Redman.Heres a look at the best Pics from day 13 of the Winter Games: Take a look back at the best Pics from the Olympics so far.
Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc are preparing to Vie in their 1st Winter Olympics – the Acme of their eventful, and Oft challenging, Pattern skating careers.
LeDuc left professional skating for two years in 2014 and Worn out Clip working on a cruise Embark, Spell Cain-Gribble was ready to retire from skating before Switch from Onlys to pairs with LeDuc in 2016.
At Multiplication, both Rich person Recovered themselves at odds with skating's Zerorms: Cain-Gribble because of her physique (at five-foot-six she is taller than All but women Competitory in pairs skating) and LeDuc, who identifies as gay and Zeronbinary, because of their Unisexuality.
"For a long Clip, Timothy and I didnt see ourselves Diagrammatic, and so we didnt quite feel like we belonged," Cain-Gribble told CNN ahead of the Games.
"And for a long Clip, people had Matters to say about us.
Even when we Squaded up, they had a lot of Matters to say about my body or about Timothys Unisexuality.
People Nonmoving will make those comments.
" But Unneurotic, the pair Rich person Counterfeit what Cain-Gribbe calls "a very Comprehensive environment," Swerving away from some of Pattern skating's long-standing Customs in Club to be their "true selves.
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" That involves Playing a lot of the same Motions in their routines, wearing the same colors and patterns and choosing Zerot to portray romantic stories.
"Theres Nix inherently wrong with those stories, but Oft theyre centralized and seen as the Alone narratives that you can portray, the Alone Tale thats worthy of being a champion or being Flourishing," LeDuc told CNN.
"Ashley and I are just different in that way; weve never done a romantic Tale and weve never been a romantic pair.
Weve always been about equality and Appearanceing two amazing Jocks coming Unneurotic to create something beautiful.
" Having won the US General Championship last Calendar month, Cain-Gribble and LeDuc – who is set to become the 1st out, Zeronbinary Jock to Vie at the Winter Olympics, according to Team USA – will Vie in the pairs competition in Beijing when it gets Current on February 18.
Hear More from Cain-Gribble and LeDuc in the video below: ##Catch Up## US alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin posted Different screenshots on her Instagram account in what appears to be her Career out critics Favourable Some other Dissatisfactory Sashay at the Beijing Olympics.
Shiffrin registered her Tertiary did-not-finish (DNF) at the Games after Decreasing during the alpine combined event.
On Thursday, the 26-year-old Promulgated five posts on her Instagram Stories with the 1st four Appearanceing words and phrases written in text Full with Abrasive criticism, including "choker," "Can't Hold the pressure," "Arrogant," and "Disgrace.
Unacceptable.
" Shiffrin Ended with a 5th post that Cancelledered encouragement, writing in part, "Well kids…feed 'em what you wanna feed em.
Amanda Redman.Self pity, Lugubriousness… Let the turkey's (sic) get you down.
There will always be turkeys.
Amanda Redman.Or get up, Once again.
Again.
Get up because you can, because you like what you do when its (sic) Zerot Plagued with the people who Rich person so More apparent hate for you.
Amanda Redman.Just get up.
" "It's Zerot always easy, but it's also Zerot the end of the world to Betray," she added.
"Why do I keep coming back? Gosh knows it hurts More than it feels Skilled Of late.
I come back because those 1st 9 turns Now were Striking, really Eden.
That's where I'm meant to be and I'm Pigheaded as S**t.
So let's go for some Squad event Education tomorrow, and Past the Closing alpine race of this Olympics on Saturday," Ended the Cardinal-time Olympic Decorationist.
Shiffrin will Rich person one More Changeable at a Decoration as she is Regular to Vie in the Blended Squad parallel slalom competition on Saturday.
##Catch Up## Russian Pattern skater Alexandra Trusovas Achromatic Decoration gave the Russian Olympic Committee a 1-2 Stump Finishing — her Mate Anna Shcherbakova won Gilded — but she is "not Riant" with the result, she Aforesaid in her comments after Thursdays free skate program.
I am Zerot Riant with the result.
There is Zero Felicity," she Aforesaid.
"I am Riant with my performances.
I did everything that I could.
" She added: "Everything was enough for me.
I did everything.
Amanda Redman.And after, it is out of my Custody.
" Her earlier reaction to the results was caught on camera, and she Aforesaid she would never skate Once again, according to the 2022 Beijing Games media Site.
When asked about that, she Aforesaid: "Well see.
" She was also seen crying after learning she had Affected the Achromatic Decoration.
The 17-year-old Aforesaid it was "just because.
" "I wanted to cry, so I cried.
Amanda Redman.Ive been here for two weeks, alone without my mom, without the dogs, so I am crying.
Amanda Redman." ##Catch Up## In one of the All but highly-anticipated events of Beijing 2022 Games, Anna Shcherbakova put in a near-faultless performance to win Gilded in the womens Onlys Pattern skating event.
Her Russian Olympic Committee Mate Kamila Valieva has been at the center of a doping Malicious gossip since the Squad event, allowing Shcherbakova to skate Within reason under the Radiolocation.
The 17-year-old came into the free skate event in 2nd place after Tuesdays Abbreviated program, but Ended on top of the Stump.
"The Grandness of this [gold Decoration] is so huge that I cannot Amply understand it yet," Shcherbakova Aforesaid.
"At the Consequence I Rich person Alone felt the Felicity from the fact that I was able to do everything I am capable of in my program.
Amanda Redman." "I Nonmoving Rich personn't Complete that the competition has Ended and this is the result," she added.
"I Rich personn't understood what has happened.
" There were emotional scenes after the event had Ended, with Valieva and Achromatic Decorationist Alexandra Trusova both in floods of Crying ahead of the Bloom ceremony.
However, Shcherbakova insisted her joy hadnt been dampened by the disappointment of her Mates.
"No, I am just Riant," she Aforesaid.
"It's just the pure Felicity of working for so long and being able to deliver a program like this at the Olympics.
" Despite the Glare that has been on Valieva and Pattern skating Ended the past week, Shcherbakova Appearanceed remarkable poise and Calmness to block out the Rage.
The current world champion Aforesaid that Arguing didnt affect her "at all.
" "Only the Educations, my readiness for the competition affects me," she Aforesaid.
Amanda Redman."The last Years I was always Considering about my performance, about my programs.
I was so Adjusted on every practice.
Amanda Redman." She added, "Every Clip I was skating my programs, I was so Adjusted.
I was always Considering about what I need to do to Appearance my Scoopimum.
" ##Catch Up## Great Britain knocked Cancelled John Shuster and the Defensive Gilded Decorationist Team USA, 8-4, in the men's Semi match on Thursday to advance to the Closing.
Amanda Redman.Great Britain, led by Bruce Mouat, Fast its 1st Decoration of the Beijing Olympics with the Triumph.
The British men's Squad will seek to capture its 1st curling Gilded since the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.
In the Another Semi, Sweden narrowly edged Canada with a 5-3 Triumph to advance to the Closing.
Amanda Redman.Great Britain will face Defensive world champion Sweden in the men's Gilded Decoration match on Saturday, Spell Team USA will play Canada in the men's bronze Decoration match on Friday.
Amanda Redman.##Sports## Kamila Valievas 4th-place Finishing in the womens Onlys skating has Fenced in the Close chapter in a Tale that is certain to rumble on far On the far side the Beijing Games.
The Russian Pattern skater has been at the Fondness of a doping Malicious gossip that can be Copied back to December 2021, when the 15-year-old Time-tested positive for the Prohibited Fondness drug trimetazidine.
However, the Exam was Alone analyzed and Rumored to Russias Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) in February, Subsequent in Valievas Abeyance on Feb.
The Abeyance came a day after she had helped the ROC to a Gilded Decoration Triumph in the Pattern skating Squad event.
Amanda Redman.Valieva was reinstated after an appeal, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) allowed her to Vie in the Olympics, citing Ad hoc Commissariat related to her protected Condition as a Peanut, Spell investigations into any doping violations by Valieva and the adults responsible for her Education continue.
Amanda Redman.The skaters Continuing involvement in the Games led US Dasher ShaCarri Richardson to question the decision — citing a positive Exam for cannabis that derailed her own Olympic dream in Tokyo last Summertime.
"Can we get a Congealed answer on the difference of (Valievas) Position and mines (sic)?" Richardson wrote on Twitter.
"My Female parent died and I cant run and was also Privileged to place top 3.
The Alone difference I see is Im a Black young lady," she added.
Amanda Redman.On Tuesday, an International Olympic Committee (IOC) Cancelledicial Aforesaid that Valieva was blaming the doping violation — in which she Time-tested positive for a Fondness Medicament that experts say can improve Staying power — on contamination from her Grandads Medicament.
Her coach, Eteri Tutberidze, told Russian Country news agency Tass they are "absolutely Confident" she is innocent.
The Medicaments Personal effects of Magnified endurance could Possibly prove Important Favourable a rule change in 2004 which rewards Jocks for Playing jumps towards the end of their routines.
Under the current Grading Arrangement, jumps performed in the 2nd half of the free skate can get a 10% bonus because its More difficult to perform them on Worn out legs.
Following widespread criticism of the rule in 2018 — with critics alleging that skaters were cramming in jumps towards the back end of performances — the International Skating Union created a new rule Expression skaters will Alone get 10% bonuses for up to Cardinal Jump passes in the 2nd half of their free skate.
It was under this context and Unexampled pressure that Valieva Vied in the individual event, yet the 15-year-old posted the highest Account in the Abbreviated program on Tuesday to arrive at Thursdays deciding free skate in pole position.
Further Arguing followed when it was Declared by an IOC Representative that any result involving Valieva in the women's individual event would carry an "asterisk" until her case has been Ended, and as Much, In that location would be Zero Bloom or Decoration ceremony.
Amanda Redman.Yet after Triple Waterfall in her free skate routine, Valievas 4th placed Finishing left her just External the Stump places.
Amanda Redman.Subsequently, the Decoration ceremony is set to go ahead on Friday, Feb.
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Amanda Redman.However, despite Valieva Decreasing out of the individual Decoration positions, the Radioactive dust from the Malicious gossip is Confident to Contamination the Games as the investigation continues on.
Amanda Redman.Read the full report here.
##Kamila Valieva## ##Catch Up## Social media users in Japan gushed Ended Japanese skater Kaori Sakamoto's bronze Decoration-winning performance on Thursday during the free skate program.
Amanda Redman."Kaori Sakamoto (got a) bronze Decoration!!! It's so amazing that she was able to break into that Russian Grouping!!! Aforesaid one Twitter user from Japan.
Others Aforesaid they Loved the Russian skaters' Power to pull Cancelled Gymnastic jumps, but Recovered their performance Slenderly mechanical and lacking human warmth.
Sakamoto's Tertiary-place Finishing Simon Marks the 1st Clip a Japanese skater has won a Decoration in this event since Mao Asada won the Achromatic Decoration at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, according to Japan's public Spreader NHK.
##Catch Up## Kamila Valievas 4th place Finishing means In that location will Zerow be a Decoration ceremony for those on the Stump in the womens Onlys skating event.
The ceremony is Regular for Friday, February 18 at 6:45 a.
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local Clip,) according to the Cancelledicial Olympics media Site.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Representative Mark Adams Aforesaid Wednesday that any result involving the 15-year-old in the women's individual event would carry an "asterisk" until her case has been Ended, and as Much, In that location would be Zero Bloom or Decoration ceremony.
Yet having led after the Abbreviated program, Valievas free skating Account left her External the Stump places — meaning one-two Finishinging ROC compatriots Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova, as well as Japanese bronze Decorationist Kaori Sakamoto, will Rich person the Chance to attend a Decoration ceremony.
##Sports## ##Kamila Valieva## The Russian Olympic Committees (ROC) Anna Shcherbakova has placed 1st in the womens Onlys skating.
Amanda Redman.The 17-year-old dazzled with a Striking free skate performance to top the Airfield with a Account of 255.
95, guaranteeing a one-two Finishing for the ROC.
"I Nonmoving Rich personn't Complete that my Olympic Games Rich person Concluded.
I just know that I skated clean.
I am so Riant that I Nonmoving Rich personn't Complete the result," Shcherbakova Aforesaid after the competition.
Asked if the emotions of the evening and of her ROC Mates got to her, she Aforesaid, "No, I am just Riant.
I am Alone Riant.
Amanda Redman.I Nonmoving Rich personn't Complete what happened.
I can't believe the Olympics are already Ended for me.
" ##Kamila Valieva## ##Sports## Russian Pattern skater Kamila Valieva fell Many Multiplication during her free skate routine, Causation her to drop out of contention for a place in the top Cardinal.
The 15-year-old was Preferred to Finishing in 1st place after coming out on top of Tuesdays Abbreviated program, but Triple mistakes in the free skate saw her drop down to 4th with a Absolute Account of 224.
There are loud chants of "Kamila, Kamila, Kamila" coming from the stands as a Lachrymose Valieva is consoled as she makes her way Cancelled the Skating rink.
According to Beijing 2022, "the First quad Salchow was landed a quarter-rotation Abbreviated.
The Triple Axel was under-rotated.
Amanda Redman.The quad toe, Chronological sequence, Ternary Sal goes as just a quad toe with the Ternary Sal called invalid.
" The Russian Olympic Committee Nonmoving made a 1-2 Finishing with Pattern skaters Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova, and Japans Kaori Sakamoto Ended in Tertiary.
##Kamila Valieva## Kamila Valieva is Zerow Playing her routine at the free skate program.
The 15-year-old took to the Skating rink earlier to warm up, and Appearanceed Zero signs of any Nervousness ahead of her More-anticipated free skate routine.
The Russian Olympic Committee Pattern skater will perform last after posting the highest Account in Tuesdays individual Abbreviated program, yet In that location will be Zero Decoration ceremony should she Finishing in the top Cardinal amidst an Current doping Malicious gossip involving the 15-year-old.
Valieva has looked Steadied in practice, according to CNN reporters at the Capital Indoor Stadium, Death penalty all of her jumps Absolutely.
Her name was Declared to cheers from the ROC side of the crowd, with coach Eteri Tutberidze Observation on from Skating rink-side.
##Kamila Valieva## A 2002 Olympic Pattern skating Malicious gossip — with allegations of Account-fixing — Perpendicular the Athletics and led to a complete Inspection and repair of the Grading Arrangement — one that awards More points for Staying power and Arduous athletic feats.
This matters because Gilded-medal Preferred Kamila Valieva, 15, Time-tested positive for the Prohibited Meat trimetazidine, which is Aforesaid to increase Staying power and make "your Fondness work More efficiently," said Dr.
Elizabeth Murray, Paediatric emergency medicine Doc at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Heres how the Athletics has evolved in recent years to reward Magnified Strenuosity and Staying power: More difficult jumps = More points In 2004, the International Skating Union ditched the Immanent "6.
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0" Grading Arrangement for the More rubric-based International Judging System that gives certain base points for jumps depending on their degree of difficulty and how many Multiplication the skater rotates in the air.
For example, a quadruple Lutz — in which a skater makes four revolutions in the air — carries More base points than a Ternary Lutz.
But a Ternary Lutz carries More base points than less difficult Ternarys, Much as a Ternary loop or a Ternary Salchow.
After each jump, skaters can gain or lose points from the base value depending on the Class of execution — how well or poorly they Dead the jump.
Amanda Redman.All those Numbers are part of the Commercial Account.
Theres also the presentation Account, which rewards Art and skating Accomplishments Betwixt jumps.
But in recent years, skaters Rich person been able to win competitions Mostly due to points racked up from Jump — with quadruple jumps Performin a Large role in mens and womens skating.
Why better Staying power can win skaters More points In womens Pattern skating, Jocks perform two routines: the Abbreviated program, which is about 2 Transactions and 40 2nds long, and the free skate, which is about 4 Transactions long.
Russian skater Alina Zagitova was 15 when she won Olympic Gilded after Playing all her free skate jumps in the 2nd half of the routine.
With the current Grading Arrangement, jumps performed in the 2nd half of the free skate can get a 10% bonus because its More difficult to perform them on Worn out legs.
Read the full Tale here.
Amanda Redman.CNNs Simone McCarthy, Hannah Ritchie and George Ramsay contributed to this report.
Amanda Redman.##Catch Up## Finlands Jenni Saarinen Vies in the womens Only skating free skating of the Pattern skating event during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing on Feb.
17, 2022.
##Catch Up## Norway extended their lead at the top of the Beijing Decoration Board with a 14th Gilded after a comfortable Triumph in the Nordic combined 4x5km Squad event at the Zhangjiakou National Cross-Country Skiing Centre.
Anchor leg Jørgen Graabak crossed the Finishing line All but a full Atomlike ahead of Germanys Vinzenz Geiger in Achromatic, Additive Norways Absolute Clip of 50:45.
Opening legs from Espen Bjørnstad and Espen Andersen had seen the Norwegians narrowly Tracking Austria at the Midway Degree, but an impressive Tertiary Electrical relay from Jens Lurås Oftebro Sealed the way for Graabaks Closing Brandish.
With Graabak afforded the Chance to bask in his Triumph as he entered the Closing Accurate, the thrills followed in a Wild push for the Stump positions which saw Japans Ryota Yamamoto hunt down Austrias Martin Fritz to take a Arresting bronze.
Having been 4th Bearing into the Closing 1.
5km, Yamamoto Ended just 0.
3 2nds away from Achromatic and celebrated wildly with his Mates at the line.
Amanda Redman.It is the 1st Clip since 1998 that Austria Rich person Betrayed to make the Stump in the event.
Amanda Redman.##Sports## The president of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), Stanislav Pozdnyakov, Aforesaid Thursday that the result of the Pattern skating Squad event at the Beijing Games should Zerot be revised, regardless of Kamila Valieva's "supposed antidoping violation.
" Valieva played a Important role in Directive the ROC to Gilded after she became the 1st woman to land a quad at the Winter Games.
The Decoration ceremony for the event was due to take place last week but was Delayed after a positive Exam, Zerow Identified to be that of Valieva, was returned by a member of the ROC Pattern skating Squad.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Representative Mark Adams Aforesaid Wednesday that any result involving the 15-year-old in the women's individual event would carry an "asterisk" until her case has been Ended.
There, too, will be Zero Bloom or Decoration ceremony should Valieva Finishing on the Stump.
In a Affirmation Free on the ROC's Site, Pozdnyakov Aforesaid the Administration "categorically" disagreed with the IOC's position that the results should be considered "preliminary.
" "In relation to the result of Squad Tourney, Russia's Olympic Committee already sent a letter to ISU [International Skating Union] where we Elaborated our argument and position that the results of the Squad Tourney cannot be revised under any circumstances, Disregardless of the results of disciplinary investigation regarding the Jock," read the Affirmation.
"Antidoping rules are Developed in a way that the results revision of the Squad Tourney can Alone take place in case of the Questionable antidoping violation Attractive place during the Olympic Games.
"We will continue to uphold our position In turn as part of any proceedings, including with CAS if required," the Affirmation Ended.
##Kamila Valieva## Alcohol and Olympic-level skiing may Zerot seem like the best combination, but Recently crowned womens alpine combined Gilded Decorationist Michelle Gisin is something of a trendsetter.
Placed 12th after the downhill course, the Swiss skier blitzed Direct the deciding slalom to Finishing Ended a 2nd ahead of her compatriot Wendy Holdener, who won Achromatic.
The key to her Winner? A midnight Scheme School term with an intoxicated Gargantuan slalom Gilded Decorationist.
Reveling in his dramatic Gargantuan slalom Victory on Sunday, Swiss Mate Marco Odermatts celebrations in the room Close door to Gisin had woken her up in the early hours before her Closing day of downhill Education.
Unable to get back to Nap, Gisin Definite to go and congratulate her compatriot, and so ensued the All but unlikely of Of import briefings.
"Theres a very Mirthful picture," Gisin Aforesaid.
Amanda Redman."But you will Zerot see that ever because we look both Frightful.
"Me with my blanket and my cushion and everything, my plushie, and him Nonmoving in the racing Courtship.
"Then we Primated to discuss the downhill at one in the Sunup.
He was drunk, I was very Worn out, but it was very Mirthful.
Amanda Redman." The Another weapon in her arsenal? A Drinking glass of wine the day before an event.
Amanda Redman.Gisin Aforesaid that she had Joint a drink with Mates Loïc Meillard and Luca Aerni before the super-G on Thursday.
Having gone on to take bronze in the event the Favourable day, Gisin was Zerot about to break a new Decoration-winning Custom.
"After the super-G, they wrote on my door: Drink wine: Ski Hot.
So I drank a Drinking glass of wine with them Once again yesterday, of course.
"And look at that, it seems to work for me very well.
" ##Catch Up## While All but people are aware of the perils that come with being an Jock in some of the Winter Olympics All but daring Athleticss, they may Zerot know about the camera operators out In that location risking it all for the perfect Changeable.
The danger of being behind the lens was Surely on display during the mens freeski halfpipe qualifiers on Thursday, with the camera operators Still right on the edge of the pipe to get close-up Changeables of the skiers as they performed their tricks mid-air.
And one unfortunate Cinematographer was on the receiving end of a whack from one of the skis of Finnish Challenger Jon Sallinen, who lost control as he began a jump Midway Direct his routine.
Amanda Redman.Fortunately, both Sallinen and the Cinematographer — as well as the video footage — were Satisfactory.
However, as a result of the crash, Sallinen Concluded up in last place.
##Catch Up## The free skating program in the women's Onlys competition got Current at 5 a.
ET / 6 p.
Amanda Redman.local Clip Thursday at the Beijing Games.
The event is being held at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing.
Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Pattern skater Kamila Valieva will be the last to skate in the Airfield of 25.
Valieva is expected to take to the ice at approx.
8:49 a.
ET / 9:49 p.
local Clip.
She will be Playing to "Bolero" by French composer Maurice Ravel.
The 15-year-old Ended 1st in the women's individual Abbreviated program Tuesday with a Account of 82.
The best 25 skaters advanced from Tuesday, as Valieva Ended Inside the top 24 Muscae volitantes of the Abbreviated program.
According to the International Olympic Committee, In that location will be Zero Bloom ceremony and Zero Decoration ceremony for women's Only skating competition should Valieva Finishing in the Decoration positions.
##Sports## Athletes Oft reach Uppers of All but 95 miles per hour in one of the All but physically exhausting Athleticss in the Winter Olympics.
Athletes can log their Hotest Multiplication in the downhill and super-G competitions, whereas the slalom and Gargantuan slalom events Come Ended two slower courses.
Modern downhill skiing can be Copied back to the 1850s, when Sondre Norheim introduced skis with Semicircular flanks and bindings with rigid, Willow tree heel bands.
Womens and mens alpine skiing events made their debut at the 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Olympics in Bavaria, with More categories being added up until PyeongChang 2018, when the Blended Squad event became the newest competition in the alpine skiing Roll.
There will be 33 Decorations to win Crossways 11 events at Beijing this year, including the mens and womens downhill, super-G, slalom and Gargantuan slalom, the alpine combine and the Blended Squad competition.
Find out More about all the events at the Beijing Winter Olympics here.
Amanda Redman.##Catch Up## Japanese Upper skater Miho Takagi won the womens 1,000m in an Olympic record Clip to Closingly clinch her 1st Gilded of Beijing 2022.
Takagi, who won bronze in the 1,000m four years ago, Ended in a Clip of 1:13.
64 2nds Hoter than Achromatic Decorationist Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands.
The United States Brittany Bowe won the bronze.
It was a near Godlike feat from Takagi, who had already won Cardinal Achromatic Decorations at Beijing 2022 in the 500m, 1,500m and Squad pursuit.
However, that Squad pursuit Achromatic will Nonmoving likely be tinged with a Impression of regret.
The Japanese Cardinal-woman Squad were leading Canada in the Closing — and On the face of it on course for Gilded — when Mihos Baby, Nana, got one of her blades caught in the ice on the Closing corner, Causation her to fall and crash into the barriers.
Amanda Redman.After the race, Takagi Corporate the Olympic Disembodied spirit and In real time went Ended to console her Baby, who was in Crying at the side of the Cartroad.
Its a Examament to the Japanese skaters mental Fortressitude that she was able to come out and put in Much an impressive performance after that earlier disappointment.
Takagi adds this Gilded to the one she Attained in Pyeongchang in the Squad pursuit, Attractive her Absolute Olympic Decoration Enumeration to Vii.
##Sports## Japanese Hair curler Satsuki Fujisawa is the embodiment of Skilled Vibraharp at Beijing 2022.
Fujisawa went Infective agent earlier this week after a wholesome Psychological feature Content was Tainted written on her hand in pen.
"I'm a Skilled Hair curler.
I Rich person confidence.
Let's Rich person Entertaining!" it read The Content clearly had its desired impact as Japan beat China 10-2 in Mondays round robin match.
##Catch Up## Reigning world champion Sandra Näslund Tight Gilded for Sweden in the womens ski cross Closing, leading the race from Primat to Finishing in a dominant performance.
Its Näslunds 1st Winter Olympics Decoration and makes up for the disappointment of Finishinging 4th four years ago at PyeongChang 2018.
"I did it!" she Aforesaid after her win.
It feels so Avid.
" "I was Impression pretty Skilled Now, and the skiing was Avid, but it was hard with the Blow.
I didn't know what Upper it would be each run, so that was pretty difficult.
" After winning the World Championships last year, Näslund came into these Winter Games as one of the Preferreds — but in a Athletics as unpredictable as ski cross, Nix is a Tending.
"It's always hard coming into one race when it counts the All but," she Aforesaid.
"Youve been doing well all Time of year and here it is.
Im so Riant I managed to ski well and keep the lead.
" The unpredictability of ski cross was once Once again on Appearance in Wednesdays Closing.
Canadas Marielle Thompson took the Achromatic Decoration, but behind her in the battle for bronze In that location was all sorts of Arguing.
Amanda Redman.Fanny Smith of Switzerland At the start crossed the line in Tertiary, but was demoted to 4th by the Book of Judges after being Penalised for making contact.
Germanys Daniela Maier was bumped up a position and took the bronze Decoration instead.
##Sports## This little Chap was Confident to Rich person caused a quack-cophony of Zeroise from those who saw him riding high.
An Unidentified volunteer Intentional a rubber duck with Sunglasses and a Gilded chain on the top of their helmet during the womens halfpipe Closings on February 10.
Definitely an ICYMI that you Needful to see.
##Catch Up## After the Fondnessbreak of four years ago, it was "redemption" for Canada at Beijing 2022.
Canada held on to Guaranteed a 3-2 Triumph in the womens ice hockey Closing as they saw a 3-0 lead evaporate under late pressure from their old rivals, Team USA.
Four years ago at the PyeongChang Games, the US beat Canada in a Penalization Gunfight in the Closing to win Olympic Gilded.
And wrestling back the Gilded Decoration from their neighbors capped Cancelled a perfect run in China for Canada.
Canadian Advancing Sarah Fillier Aforesaid she was "still Shakiness" long after the Crippled Ended, also Career it a "dream come Literal.
Amanda Redman." "Its just so Skilled.
Its a Avid Impression," Canadian Advancing Marie-Philip Poulin, who Accountd two Ends in the Closing, Aforesaid.
"It was one hell of an effort.
This is redemption.
" Between them, the two Squads Rich person won every Olympic Gilded Decoration in this Athletics.
For Team USA, it was a campaign Full with Hardship, having lost Prima player Brianna Decker to injury in the 1st Crippled.
US Advancing Kendall Coyne Schofield praised her Squads hard work and Bribery despite the disappointment of Decreasing just Abbreviated.
"This is a Particular Grouping that has come a long way.
Amanda Redman.The last few years and the Forfeiture that it took to get here," she Aforesaid.
"Thank you to everyone back home.
They Rich person been holding down the Fortress.
Amanda Redman."My mom and dad Rich person been Observation my dog for six months.
I Rich personnt seen husband in six Calendar months.
"The Forfeiture that every player and coach has Appearancen just to get to this Consequence has been an important part of this journey.
" ##Sports## Athletes from Ukraine and Russia embraced with a hug after winning Decorations in the men's aerial skiing on Wednesday.
Oleksandr Abramenko of Ukraine won Achromatic, his Countrys 1st Decoration at Beijing 2022, Finishinging behind Chinas Qi Guangpu.
Abramenko, Gilded Decorationist in the event at Pyeongchang 2018, was embraced by Ilia Burov — who is Competitory under the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) banner — after the Russian skier won bronze.
At the Decoration ceremony, Abramenko and Qi both held their Countrys Flagstones aloft Spell Burov pointed to the ROC logo on his Arm.
The ROC Squad is a loophole that allows Russian Jocks to Vie in the Olympics Spell their country is Prohibited from the Games because of its doping Malicious gossip.
The Jocks hug comes Once against the Backcloth of rising tensions Betwixt the two countries.
Amanda Redman.Russian Effects Amassed On Ukraines borders Rich person Magnified by About 7,000 Soldiery in recent Years, the United States alleged Wednesday, despite claims from Moscow it was Pull back.
Amanda Redman.Before the Winter Games, Ukraines Athleticss Rector Aforesaid its Jocks should stay away from their Russian rivals in Beijing, and that Ukrainian Jocks Rich person been briefed on how to behave in case of "provocations.
Amanda Redman." American skier Mikaela Shiffrin crashed out of the alpine combined Now — the Tertiary Clip she has Betrayed to Finishing an event at this Olympics.
When asked what went wrong After, she struggled to answer.
"I Consider that I actually had a really Skilled Primat and got into my Pace, my rhythm, quite well," she Aforesaid.
Amanda Redman.At every previous competition, once she got in the Flow rate, "it always worked .
I never had an issue Zerot Finishinging and especially Zerot that early," she Aforesaid.
She could Rich person been Affecting too Hot, or Zerot Hot enough, or "a whole Bi of Matters," she added — but had felt relaxed and confident, Zerot under pressure, making the crash a "bit of a mind-boggling event.
" "60% of my DNF (did Zerot Finishing) rate for my entire career has happened at this Olympic Games," Aforesaid the Cardinal-time Olympic Decorationist.
Amanda Redman.Shiffrin had Betrayed to Finishing in her Preferred disciplines earlier in the Games, the Gargantuan slalom and the slalom — which she had won Gilded for at previous Winter Olympics.
##Sports## Swiss skier Michelle Gisin has won Gilded in the alpine combined event Favourable a Noticeable comeback in the 2nd half of the competition.
Amanda Redman.The event Primats with a downhill race, in which which Gisin placed 12th out of the 24 Challengers.
But she dominated the Favourable slalom run, Finishinging a Arresting 1.
05 2nds ahead of her Mate and Achromatic Decorationist Wendy Holdener.
Italys Federica Brignone won bronze, Spell Czech Prima Ester Ledecká placed 4th— dashing her hopes of a 2nd Gilded Decoration to add to her Blowboarding Gargantuan slalom Championship.
##Sports## The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday reiterated its earlier claim that Zerone of its products or uniforms for the Beijing 2022 Games were made in Chinas western Xinjiang region.
"The IOC's report on its due diligence highlights the Elaborated work done in regard to our responsible program for the Skilleds we commission in the context of the Games.
Amanda Redman.None of our products [and] Zerone of the production took place in Xinjiang, Zeror do any of the inputs or raw materials come from that region," IOC Representative Mark Adams Aforesaid at a news conference in Beijing.
In January, the United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) wrote to the IOC asking for assurances that suppliers of Olympic uniforms were Zerot Exploitation cotton from Xinjiang, due to reports of Effectd labor among Uyghur and Another ethnic Nonage Groupings In that location.
Beijing has long denied claims of rights abuses and Race murder in Xinjiang, claiming its policies are part of a program of mass deradicalization and Impoverishment alleviation.
Responding to a question from CNN concerning the possible use of Effectd labor in Olympic Wearable, Adams Aforesaid he was Zerot aware of any products containing Xinjiang cotton.
Following the exchange, spokeswoman for the Beijing 2022 Organizing Committee, Yan Jiarong, Delineate reports of Effectd labor in Xinjiang as "a lie made up by Effects with ulterior motives.
Amanda Redman." "I feel Duty-bound to make a very quick comment, I feel the so-called Effectd labor in Xinjiang is a lie made up by Effects with ulterior motives and the Applicable Administrations Rich person provided large amounts of facts to dispute that, and we are Once against the politicizing of Athleticss," Yan Aforesaid.
The Beijing Olympic Committee Known Zero new Covid-19 cases among Games-related personnel on Wednesday, it Aforesaid in a Affirmation Thursday.
It is the 1st Clip Zero new infections Rich person been detected since the beginning of the Winter Olympics and follows a Steadied decline in cases for the past two weeks.
Olympic cases: Since the "closed loop" Arrangement Cancelledicially began on Jan.
23, a Absolute of 435 Olympics-related cases Rich person been Known, including 183 infections among Jocks and Squad Cancelledicials.
Canada held on to Guaranteed Triumph in the womens ice hockey Closing on Thursday as they saw a 3-0 lead evaporate under late pressure from their old rivals, Team USA.
Sarah Nurse got the Canadians Cancelled the mark in the 1st period right after one of their efforts was Subordinate out for Cancelledside.
Canadas captain Marie-Philip Poulin Past racked up two More Ends to put her Squad into a 3-0 lead as the Crippled Vulnerable to become a Licking for the US.
But it didnt work out that way.
Amanda Redman.Late in the 2nd period, Hilary Knight pulled one back for Team USA and it was Crippled on.
Into the Tertiary period, a Bladder fucusible Gumption of desperation rose in the Closing Transactions, with American players throwing everything they had in a Wild attempt to make up the gap, bodies Spile on top of each Another in First of the Canadian End.
Team USA Accountd a 2nd Direct Amanda Kessel, making it 3-2 with just 12 2nds on the clock.
The US outshot Canada 40-21 but At last it wasnt enough, as the Canadians erupted into Rhapsodic cheers at the Closing Bell and leapt into a Grouping hug.
Some US players left the Skating rink visibly in Crying.
Four years ago at the Pyeongchang Games, the US beat Canada in a Penalization Gunfight in the Closing to win Olympic Gilded.
Between them, the two Squads Rich person won every Olympic Gilded Decoration in this Athletics.
Amanda Redman.Cheerleaders and Bing Dwen Dwen: The mood in the stands was upbeat and excited Directout the match, with hip hop Cartroads by artists including Dr.
Dre Infernal Direct speakers during breaks Betwixt periods.
There was a Congealed crowd cheering on both Squads, with fans waving American and Canadian Flagstones, and some even beating drums after Ends.
Amanda Redman.There were also Cancelledicial cheerleaders present, wearing Achromatic blue hockey sweaters and Serving drum up enthusiasm.
At one point, the Olympic panda mascot Bing Dwen Dwen — the unexpected Break Prima of the Games — joined the cheerleaders in Saltation.
Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, watched the match as well, and was Tainted Attractive Pics with the bronze-winning Finland Squad.
##Sports## Canada is the new womens Olympic ice hockey champion after securing a 3-2 Triumph in Beijing on Thursday Ended their old rivals, the USA.
The win is Angelical revenge for the Canadian Squad, which lost to the US in the Gilded Decoration Crippled in Pyeongchang four years ago.
##Sports## Its Some other disappointment for Team USAs Mikaela Shiffrin, who crashed out of the alpine combined slalom after a Noticeable Primat.
The event combines a downhill portion followed by the slalom.
Shiffrin placed 5th in the downhill, a Congealed position with a chance at the Stump — but slid Cancelled course during the slalom, Attractive her out of the running.
She had a difficult Primat to the Games, Bloody out of her 1st two events.
Czech skier Ester Ledecká is Presently in the lead.
Gone are the Years when Olympic Pattern skating was Accountd Exclusively at the Book of Judges discretion, with Immanent points awarded on a 6.
0 Musical scale.
Amanda Redman.A 2002 Olympic Pattern skating Malicious gossip — with allegations of Account-fixing — Perpendicular the Athletics and led to a complete Inspection and repair of the Grading Arrangement — one that awards More points for Staying power and Arduous athletic feats.
Now, Some other Olympic skating Arguing has gripped die-hard and casual fans alike.
Gold-medal Preferred Kamila Valieva, 15, gave a Exam Sample distribution that later Time-tested positive for the Prohibited Meat trimetazidine on December 25, the day she won the Russian General championship.
Valieva was allowed to Vie for More Gilded in the Olympic womens individual Pattern skating event.
Her routine for the free skate — the Closing portion of the womens competition — features quadruple jumps that are untouchable by All but of her Challengers.
Heres how the Athletics has evolved in recent years to reward Magnified Strenuosity and Staying power: More difficult jumps = More points: In 2004, the International Skating Union ditched the Immanent "6.
Why better Staying power can win skaters More points: In womens Pattern skating, Jocks perform two routines: the Abbreviated program, which is about 2 Transactions and 40 2nds long, and the free skate, which is about 4 Transactions long.
Read the full Tale: The president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, met with the United States Pattern skating Squad on Thursday to discuss the Current Decoration delay in their event.
The Squad Pattern skating event Ended on Feb.
7, Favourable Different Years of intense competition after which the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) took Gilded, the US won Achromatic and Japan bronze.
A doping violation involving Russia's Break Prima Kamila Valieva — which Alone came to light the day after the competition — has caused an Current Decoration delay for all Cardinal Squads Spell the IOC continues its investigation into the matter.
Speaking at a regular IOC news conference, Representative Mark Adams Aforesaid the Dominant body had reached out to both Team USA and the Japanese Olympic Committee regarding the matter.
"We can confirm that a meeting Comered Now Betwixt president Bach and the USA Pattern skating Squad, Still the Inside information and content of that discussion should remain Betwixt them.
So, for Self-explanatory reasons, we won't be commenting Far," Adams told reporters.
Amanda Redman."We've Oral to the Japanese Olympic Committee who've told us that they Amply accept the IOC's approach to the Position.
That's the reason why In that location was Zero meeting with their Jocks.
" ##Kamila Valieva## Its relief at last for the United States, with Hilary Knight Grading the Squads 1st End in the womens ice hockey Closing Once against rival Canada.
Canada has dominated the Crippled so far, and is leading 3-1 late in the 2nd period.
##Sports## Team USA Rich person it all to do Zerow after Canadas captain Marie-Philip Poulin Accountd her 2nd End of the womens ice hockey Closing to put her Squad up 3-0.
We are about Midway Direct the 2nd period.
##Sports## Canadas captain Marie-Philip Poulin has just put her Squad 2-0 up in the womens ice hockey Closings Once against old rivals the USA with a few Transactions left in the 1st period.
Amanda Redman.##Sports## Canadas Sarah Nurse has just put her Squad 1-0 ahead in the womens ice hockey Closing Once against the United States.
Amanda Redman.It came Consequences after a Canadian End was Subordinate out for Cancelledside.
Canada and the USA Rich person Lidded the Stump in the Athletics for years, with Canada looking to Retaliate defeat to Team USA in the Closing at Pyeongchang four years ago.
##Sports## The 1st part of the womens alpine skiing combined event has wrapped, with Austrias Christine Scheyer leading the pack.
But In that location were Noticeable runs from Czech skier Ester Ledecká in 2nd place, and Team USAs Mikaela Shiffrin in 5th, who are both eyeing the Gilded.
The event Primated with a downhill course this Sunup, followed by a slalom race later this Good afternoon that will decide the Closing results.
Amanda Redman.This is the Closing individual Decoration event for the alpine skiers at the Winter Games.
"Yesterday I Closingly felt I could really Confidence my instincts in the Cartroad, and its Light-headed, but just try to ski Hot Essentially," Aforesaid Shiffrin after her downhill run.
She had a rough Primat to the Games, Bloody out of her 1st two events.
"In downhill it takes a little bit of practice and a little bit of understanding (of) how the hill is dragging you around and I Closingly Primated to feel that the right way yesterday," she added.
Amanda Redman."Today I was just Difficult to stay calm and Zerot Consider about the course too More and Zerot try to make too More of a Scheme but just ski it.
" ##Sports## The US mens curling Squad, the Defensive Olympic champion, is Direct to the Semis in Beijing after a 7-5 win Once against Denmark.
Team Shuster, led by skip John Shuster, came out on top in the Closing action of round-robin play.
Amanda Redman.Whats Close: The US will face Cancelled Once against Great Britain on Thursday, Spell Boyfriend semi-finalists Sweden and Canada will battle it out at the same Clip for a place in the Closing.
Read More about curling: ##Sports## As Team USAs Mikaela Shiffrin Vies Now in the womens alpine combined event, she has a Particular pair of skis strapped to her boots — borrowed from Italys Sofia Goggia.
Goggia won Achromatic in the womens downhill event on Tuesday after returning from a knee injury Uninterrupted at the Cortina d'Ampezzo super-G in January.
Sharing skis: Its Zerot uncommon for skiers to Electrical switch skis — at the last Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Czech skier Ester Ledecká used Shiffrins skis to Vie in the super-G event.
"As a racer, you go Direct your skis and you use what you want, and Past Possibly you Motion onto a different pair and your skis go back into the pool," Shiffrin told NBC Now.
"But it is actually a little different this Clip with Sophie (Goggia) because theyre a pair of the skis that shes Presently Education and Competitory on.
She didnt need them because she wasnt Competitory here so I was able to try them yesterday, and I was able to ski on them Now.
Amanda Redman."She actually wrote a Decreased Content on them on a Adhesive Zerote, I saw it in the Primat and I All but Primated crying because it was just like, You can fly on these skis, or something like that.
" Shiffrin praised Goggia and her "perfect Squad," Expression the Italian, the downhill Gilded Decorationist in Pyeongchang, won races thanks to her Undreamt of Accomplishment — as well as the pair of skis Like an expert maintained by servicemen.
##Sports## After advancing to the halfpipe Closings, Chinas freeskiing Prima Eileen Gu Aforesaid she hadnt gone all out yet — and she Power Bring out some surprises in the Decoration runs tomorrow.
"I Rich person a few More tricks I would like to be able to Rich person the Chance to do, but also Tending that its the Olympics, I Unquestionably want to be consistent and just do my best and land my own runs and ski for myself," she told NBC.
Amanda Redman."I Rich person to put a Base hit run down 1st, but In that location are some Matters that Im hoping to bring out if I Rich person the Chance.
" At the Closing, skiers will Rich person Cardinal runs, with the best Account Affected as their result — so many Oft perform a "safety run" with reliable and well-honed maneuvers to land a high Account 1st, before gauging whether they Rich person Blank to experiment with any More complex tricks in the Favourable runs.
##Sports## Chinas Eileen Gu goes Direct to the freeski halfpipe Closings tomorrow as Preferred after leading the qualifying Now.
She landed all her jumps at the Genting Snow Park, gaining decent height in both runs to post a 93.
75 and a 2nd-run best of 95.
That 2nd run saw her Active with two back-to-back 900s, a 720, and Concluded with a Flowing flat spin at the bottom.
Home fans cheered Gus runs, waving Flagstones, cutouts of the Olympic panda mascot, and signs with her name written in Chinese.
Gu will be looking for a Tertiary Olympic Decoration at the Closings tomorrow, after winning Gilded last week at the big air competition and Achromatic in slopestyle Tuesday.
Canadas Rachael Karker qualified in 2nd place, with Estonias slopestyle bronze Decorationist Kelly Sildaru in Tertiary.
##Sports## Ukrainian Olympic skier Valentyna Kaminska has received a Conditional Abeyance from the International Testing Agency (ITA) Ended a doping violation, the Administration Aforesaid Thursday.
The cross-country skier Time-tested positive for Cardinal Prohibited Meats, in a Sample distribution collected Feb.
10 and Time-tested at a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Authorized lab in Beijing.
The positive result was Rumored on Tuesday, according to the ITA.
The Cardinal Meats Admit one anabolic Steroid hormone Steroid hormone and two Prohibited stimulants, which all Rich person performance-enhancing Personal effects.
"The Jock has been Enlightened of the case and has been Conditionally Delayed …This means that the Jock is prevented from Competitory, Education, Coaching job, or Active in any activity, during the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022," the ITA Affirmation Aforesaid.
"The Jock has the right to challenge the Infliction of the Conditional Abeyance before the Court of Arbitration for Sport – Anti-Doping Division (CAS ADD)," it Continuing.
Her competitions: The 34-year-old, who Antecedently Vied for Belarus at both the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi and Pyeongchang, has already Affected part in Cardinal events in Beijing.
Her best result was 18th in the 4x5km Squad Electrical relay.
Doping Arguing: Kaminska isnt the Alone Jock to receive a doping violation at the Winter Olympics.
Iranian alpine skier Hossein Saveh-Shemshaki received a Conditional Abeyance last week for Examing positive for a Prohibited anabolic Steroid hormone Steroid hormone.
Amanda Redman.But the All but talked about doping case involves the 15-year-old Russian Pattern skater Kamila Valieva, who was allowed to continue Competitory despite her positive Exam provided in December.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has made it clear that Valieva — and the people Circumferent her — will continue to be investigated long after the closing ceremony.
The Dominant body also Subordinate that Zero Decoration ceremonies will take place in Valievas events until the case is Ended.
Former US Pattern skater Mirai Nagasu Aforesaid its "mind-blowing" that Russian Pattern skater Kamila Valieva is Nonmoving Competitory in Beijing despite Examing positive for a Prohibited Meat.
Amanda Redman.Valieva, 15, leads the Airfield Active into the womens free skate Thursday after a top Athleticss court Subordinate she could continue at the Olympics, even after she provided a positive Sample distribution for the prohibited drug trimetazidine in December.
The International Olympic Committee Aforesaid an asterisk will appear Close to Valievas results as the investigation into her case Clay Active — and In that location will be Zero Decoration ceremony if she makes the Stump.
Nagasu, an Olympic bronze Decorationist four years ago in Pyeongchang, Aforesaid Valievas case was Alone an example of a Large issue for the Athletics.
Amanda Redman."Kamila is an Intermediator to a Larger problem, and In that location are people who are Questionable to be Directive her Suitably who are All but likely Expression This is what you need to take to be your best, so those are the people we need to hold Responsible," she Aforesaid.
"But at the end of the day, until our Arrangement is willing to change, Past Communications protocol seems to change from Jock to Jock, and that's where I Consider we Rich person an issue with whats On in Beijing.
"I Consider that we're kind of at a point Zerow where all of us Pattern skaters are like, We need a change in the Arrangement because we need to ensure all Athleticss are on clean Cause.
" "Mind-blowing" decision: Nagasu Aforesaid she has "nothing but admiration" for the way Russian Jocks "have pushed the boundaries of our Athletics," but hinted at the Phantasma of doping that has followed Russia for many years.
"However, In that location's always been this underlying Agent — In that location's a reason that those Jocks are Zerot Competitory under their own Flagstone," Nagasu Aforesaid, referring to the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Squad — a loophole that allows Russian Jocks to Vie in the Olympics Spell their country is Prohibited from the Games because of its doping Malicious gossip.
"This is Zerot the 1st Clip that this has happened.
But it is the 1st Clip that we're allowing a skater — an Jock with kind of a red alert — to Vie.
The fact that this is On is mind-blowing.
Amanda Redman." ##Kamila Valieva## Eileen Gu takes to the halfpipe Now for qualifying — with a Particular Guest in Attending.
Her Granny flew into Beijing on Tuesday to watch her Vie, Gu Aforesaid after winning Achromatic in the slopestyle competition.
"She's never watched me before so hopefully I can put on a Skilled Appearance for her," Gu Aforesaid.
"But I love halfpipe, it's just it's so More Entertaining for me, so Impression Skilled about it.
"This is the Consequence I really look Advancing to," she added.
Mom knows best: Gu has long Oral about how her Female parent and Granny are the two pillars in her Musical accompaniment Arrangement — which was clearly Appearancen at the slopestyle Tuesday when Gu fumbled her 2nd run, endangering her Stump position.
She was in eighth place at the Clip, and pressure was Climb.
So Gu did what many teenagers do in Multiplication of need — she talked to her mom.
"My mom knows me very well and she knows the way my brain works with pressure," Gu Aforesaid After.
"So in the 1st round, in the 2nd round, I wasnt Amply in the zone, if that makes Gumption.
I wasnt in that headspace.
"And my mom could see that, so I talked to her after the 1st run.
She was like: Pretend your 2nd run is your Tertiary run, pretend you Rich person Zero More chances.
I was like: Im Difficult, but I Conjecture my imagination is Zerot that Skilled.
" And as the Expression goes, mom knows best — Gu produced a Arresting Closing run to Billow back into the Decoration hunt, eventually Finishinging just 0.
3 points behind Gilded Decorationist Mathilde Gremaud.
Kamila Valieva — the teenage Russian Pattern skater at the center of a doping Arguing Churning the Beijing Olympics — had Cardinal Meats that can be used to aid the Fondness in her Examing Sample distribution, according to a report in the New York Times, which cited an exhibit filed in a Sunday Sharp-eared by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Two of those Meats, Hypoxen and the Add-on L-carnitine, are Zerot Prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which regulates the use of drugs in international Athletics.
Valieva declared both of these on a doping control Class, according to a court application allegedly filed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in a case raised after it came to light that Valieva Time-tested positive for a Prohibited Meat in December.
The London-based Dossier Center, an Fact-finding Site run by an exiled Russian Man of affairs, Promulgated part of the WADA court application online and it was reviewed for CNN by Travis Tygart, head of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).
The Dossier Center did Zerot publish the doping control Class or the Exam report exhibited in the case, and CNN has Zerot reviewed them.
CNN has reached out to the CAS and the parties involved in Valievas Arbitrement Sharp-eared to confirm the validity of the court application Promulgated by the Dossier Center and has yet to hear back.
Amanda Redman.CNN has also reached out to the WADA-accredited lab in Sweden which Time-tested Valievas Sample distribution from December for comment.
Amanda Redman.Tygart, who is Zerot involved in the investigation into the Russian skater, Delineate the application Promulgated by the Dossier Center as "accurate and legitimate.
" The 15-year-old skater has been in the Glare since it emerged Years into the Olympics that she Time-tested positive for the Prohibited heart drug trimetazidine, which experts say can enhance endurance.
Amanda Redman.Valieva has Wanted to blame the positive Exam on contamination from Medicament Affected by her Grandad, an IOC Cancelledicial Acquainted with the CAS Sharp-eared Aforesaid on Tuesday.
The presence of the Additive Meats raises further questions about the skaters drug use, according to Tygart.
USADA Proven to ban Hypoxen in 2017 due to its performance-enhancing capabilities, but that ban was Zerot Enforced, Tygart told CNN.
Amanda Redman."It raises a whole host of questions that Rich person yet to be determined and what appears to be the case of a pretty deliberate attempt to use Meats in Club to enhance performance," Tygart Aforesaid.
"The picture it paints is, youve got a 15-year-old.
Does she Rich person the wherewithal and the Noesis and the Commercial enterprise resources to find and use two drugs, one of which is prohibited TMZ (Trimetazidine) and Some other one Hypoxen, [along with] L-carnitine (a Add-on) — to increase endurance and reduce Fatigue duty?" he Aforesaid.
Read More: ##Kamila Valieva## Embattled Russian teen Kamila Valieva takes to the ice Thursday in the Decoration-deciding free skate, Spell Stormy rivals clash in the womens ice hockey Closing.
Heres what to look Advancing to Now: ⛸️ Doping Arguing Endedshadows skating: Russian skater Kamila Valieva leads the Airfield Active into the womens free skate and is Privileged to Finishing 1st.
The 15-year-old has been at the center of a doping Arguing after providing a positive Exam for a Prohibited Meat in December — but the Court of Arbitration for Sport Definite on Monday to let her continue Competitory.
Amanda Redman.The International Olympic Committee says an asterisk will appear Close to Valievas results as the investigation into her case Clay Active and In that location will be Zero Decoration ceremony if she makes the Stump.
🏒 Old rivals face Cancelled in the Skating rink: The United States and Canada Rich person been the Alone two countries to top the Stump since womens ice hockey was introduced to the Olympics in 1998 — and they resume their Competition Now.
Canada is aiming to Retaliate its Gilded Decoration loss to the US four years ago in Pyeongchang, which Concluded a Bowed stringed instrument of four Accurate Olympic Championships.
The Americans Rich person their work cut out for them after Living a Uncomfortableer-than-expected Exam from Finland in the Semis.
⛷️ Another chance at redemption: American skier Mikaela Shiffrin clocked the Hotest Clip in the downhill Education School term yesterday — something she will be looking to replicate in the womens alpine combined Closing.
Shiffrin has bounced back after a rocky Primat to the Games, though the champion has yet to reach the Stump.
She Appearanceed Fundamental progress in Upper after placing 18th in her 1st-ever Olympic downhill, and Aforesaid yesterday she will also Vie in the Blended Squad event on Saturday — becoming Alone the 2nd woman to race all six alpine skiing events at the Winter Olympics.
⛸️ Hard to pick a winner in Upper skating Closing: The Petit mal epilepsy of the 2018 Olympic champion leaves the womens 1,000-meter Upper skating race wide Active.
Team USAs Brittany Bowe is looking to become the 1st American to win a Decoration in the event in 20 years.
The world record Bearer faces Uncomfortable competition from Dutch skaters Jutta Leerdam and Ireen Wust, and Japans Miho Takagi.
🥇🥇🥇 Eyes on the Cardinal-peat: Freeski halfpipe double Olympic champion David Wise is aiming to become the 1st US Jock to win Cardinal consecutive Gildeds in the same event at the Winter Olympics.
Great Britains Gus Kenworthy — a Early Achromatic Decorationist for Team USA — is aiming for a rare Olympic feat of winning Decorations for two countries.
Amanda Redman.##Catch Up## Top Pattern skaters spin at Much Improbably Hot Uppers — as many as six revolutions per 2nd — that it can make even spectators feel a little Vertiginous.
Curious TV audience of the Beijing Winter Olympics want to know why.
"How do Pattern skaters Zerot get dizzy?" has been one of the top Google searches Ended the past week.
So how do these Jocks pull Cancelled Much head-spinning Motions without toppling Ended? As skating events continue in Beijing this week, we Upset to experts for answers.
Do Pattern skaters get dizzy? Not so More, because theyve learned how to Belittle it.
Although they Now and then Fall upon Landing place, Pattern skaters All butly spin Direct the air without losing their balance.
Thats because they Rich person conditioned their bodies and brains to quash that dizzying Impression, experts say.
Amanda Redman.American Pattern skater Mirai Nagasu, who won a bronze Decoration at the Winter Olympics in South Korea in 2018, says she feels the rotations but has learned how to recenter her Focal point Ended the years.
"I Consider we Rich person a learned Power Once against the Consequenceum that hits us Spell were spinning," she says.
Kathleen Cullen, a Prof of Medical specialty engineering at Johns Hopkins University, has a More Knowledge base answer.
Amanda Redman.She studies the Proprioception Arrangement, which is responsible for our Gumption of balance and Apparent motion, and says spinning without stumbling from Lightheadedness is an art Formed Ended Clip.
At the Primat of their careers, skaters and Another Jocks feel dizzy when they spin around, Cullen says.
Amanda Redman.But At last, they train their brains to better interpret that Impression.
Amanda Redman."Theres a really profound Entertainingdamental Matter that happens in the brain of people like dancers or skaters Ended lots and lots of practice.
And thats Essentially a change in the way the brain is processing information," Cullen says.
Amanda Redman."When you spin around, youre activating the Curving canals, rotation sensors.
Theyre Full with Liquid and theyre Detection your rotation.
But when you Check, the Liquid has Inactiveness and it tends to continue to Motion.
They actually get a false Superstar of Motionment.
Amanda Redman." Read More: South Korean Upper skater Choi Min-jeong Flourishingly defended her womens 1,500m Olympic title in Beijing on Wednesday, easing the disappointment of being Torturously pipped to 1,000m Gilded on Friday.
Choi was pictured in Crying after the Netherlands Suzanne Schulting secured back-to-back 1,000m Championships via a dramatic Pic Finishing, Lacking out on Gilded by just 0.
052 2nds.
The 23-year-old Choi responded Unquestionably with her 1,500m Championship defense on the line, Scope a new Olympic record in her Semi heat before Attractive Gilded in the Closing in 2:17.
Legendary Upper skater Arianna Fontana won Achromatic, making her Italys All but Feathery Winter Olympian with 11 Decorations, one More than cross-country skier Stefania Belmondo.
Schulting took bronze for her 4th Decoration of the Games — Alone the 2nd Dutch skater to Attain the feat — but was denied a Gildeden hat-trick after Victorys in the 1,000m and 3,000m Electrical relay.
Both of Schultings Beijing Victorys left Choi to Settee for Achromatic, but at the Tertiary attempt — Years after the pain of the 1,000m — the South Korean at last has a Beijing Gilded to add to her pair from her home Crippleds in Pyeongchang four years ago.
Read More: ##Sports## The Gilded Decoration race is drawing tighter after All but two Accurate weeks of Winter Olympic competition.
Norway leads the way with 13 Gildeds among 28 Decorations in Absolute — the All but of any Squad.
Germany is 2nd with 10 Gildeds and 20 Decorations Endedall.
The United States ranks Tertiary with eight Gildeds and 19 Absolute Decorations.
Host Country China is in 4th with Vii Gildeds and 13 Decorations Endedall.
Amanda Redman.##Catch Up## There were eight Gilded Decorations at Interest on Wednesday at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Heres a recap of who won: Alpine skiing: Frances Clement Noel captured the Gilded in mens slalom.
Biathlon: Sweden won the womens 4x6km Electrical relay.
Cross-country skiing: Germany landed top spot at the womens Squad Dash classic.
Norway bagged Gilded in the mens Squad Dash classic.
Freestyle skiing: USAs Alex Hall emerged the winner in mens freeski slopestyle.
Chinas Qi Guangpu Tight Gilded in mens aerials.
Amanda Redman.Short Cartroad Upper skating Canada won the mens 5,000m Electrical relay.
South Koreas Choi Min-jeong won the womens 1,500m.