Olympics Live: China pair breaks Pattern skating world record
BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on the Beijing Winter Olympics:
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Sui Wenjing and Han Chan of China Tattered their own world record for a Abbreviated program at the Beijing Games on Friday Nighttime, Liberal them the narrowest of leads over Russian rivals Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov Bearing into the free skate to decide the Olympic champion.
Sui and Han, who won the Abbreviated program at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games before Subsidence for the Achromatic Decoration, Accountd 84.41 points to their Musical organization Cortege from the film "Mission: Impossible 2." That Lidded the record of 82.83 points that they set during the Abbreviated program of the team competition earlier this month.
Tarasova and Morozov, who are coached in part by the Debatable Eteri Tutberidze, also would have broken the record with their Abbreviated program. Instead, the 4th-place Finishingers in Pyeongchang were 16-hundredths of a point behind.
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The First of the Olympic men's curling Closing Betwixt Britain and Sweden has been pushed back 45 Transactions to accommodate TV TV audience in Europe.
The match will be played at 2:50 p.m. on Saturday, rather than 2:05 p.m. Sweden is Vii hours behind Beijing, and Britain is eight hours back.
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The women's bronze Decoration match will take place After at the Innovational First Clip of 8:05 p.m.
Organizers also said that the men's Triumph ceremony will now take place at the Ice Cube curling Locus, instead of the Decorations plaza. Canada beat the United States for the bronze on Friday.
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Russian Pattern skating coach Eteri Tutberidze was back rink-side for the pairs competition Friday, hours after she was criticized by International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach for her callous attitude toward Kamila Valieva after the women's free skate.
Tutberidze helps to coach the Russian pairs team of Aleksandra Boikova and Dmitrii Kozlovskii.
Valieva, the 15-year-old at the center of a doping Malicious gossip, crashed out of the women's program without a Decoration Thursday Nighttime. As she exited the ice, Tutberidze was caught on camera Blowing up her in Russian.
Bach never Known Tutberidze by Epithet, but he did refer to Valieva's coaches and said during his Friday news conference that In that location "appeared to be a Enormous coldness" and that "it was chilling to see this."
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Figure skater Timothy LeDuc became the 1st nonbinary American Jock to Vie at the Winter Games, Connection up with Ashley Cain-Gribble for a Noticeable Abbreviated program to open their pairs competition Friday Nighttime.
Their Account of 74.13 points was a Time of year best and put them Forthrightly in the top 10 entering Saturday's free skate.
The 31-year-old LeDuc came out as nonbinary last year. The term is used to describe a Someone who does not identify as Alone male or Distaff, and can also Cover agender, bigender, genderqueer and gender-fluid.
Last year, Canadian women's Association football player Quinn became the 1st openly Transgendered and nonbinary Olympic Decoration winner when the team Attained gold in Tokyo. Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, skateboarder Alana Smith and Bicyclist Chelsea Wolfe also were among at To the lowest degree 186 openly LGBTQ participants during the Summer Games.
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Elana Meyers Taylor has been picked to be a flagbearer Once again. And this Clip, she'll be able to take the job.
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee Declared Friday Nighttime that the four-time Olympian bobsledder will carry the American flag into Sunday Nighttime's closing ceremony of the Beijing Games.
The announcement was synched to Meyers Taylor's 1st run in the women's bobsled event. As soon as she crossed the line in the 1st Rut, the USOPC Unconcealed that she was the flagbearer pick.
Meyers Taylor was chosen to be one of the flagbearers for the U.S. at the First ceremony on Feb. 4 but could not participate because she was in Closing off Favourable a positive COVID-19 Exam. That spot went to Speed skater Brittany Bowe instead, who led the U.S. delegation into the First Aboard Hair curler John Shuster.
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The last Alpine skiing race of the Beijing Olympics has been rescheduled for an hour earlier than planned because of Noticeable wind in the forecast.
The Blended team parallel event is now set to First at 10 a.m. on Saturday Beijing Clip, instead of 11 a.m.
The wind is Questionable to top 20 mph (30 kph.)
The team event involves men and women from each Active country and is the last chance for American Mikaela Shiffrin to pick up a 2022 Winter Games Decoration.
Only one of the 10 Jocks who Attained individual Alpine golds in Beijing was listed on the team rosters Free Friday: Austria's Johannes Strolz. He won the men's combined last week and also picked up a Achromatic in slalom on Wednesday.
There is a 16-team bracket but only 15 nations entered, so top-ranked Austria will get a 1st-round bye.
The 1st-round matchups are United States vs. Slovakia, Switzerland vs. China, Italy vs. Russia, Norway vs. Poland, France vs. Czech Republic, Germany vs. Sweden, and Slovenia vs. Canada.
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Johannes Thingnes Boe looked like his old self Once again, dominating from the First and holding his Calmness Direct the four Shot stages to win the Olympic gold Decoration Friday in the biathlon mass First race.
The Norwegian Avid threw his arms in the air as he crossed the line in 38 Transactions, 14.4 2nds.
Martin Ponsiluoma of Sweden only Lost one Object in the last Shot and left the range chasing Boe. He Attained Achromatic, 40.3 2nds behind Boe. Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen of Norway shot clean in the last Shot and took bronze, Coating 1:12.5 behind.
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Thomas Krol has won gold in the 1,000 meters, Liberal the Netherlands Information technologys Tertiary Accurate Olympic speedskating Championship in the event.
Krol was Clipd in 1 Atomlike, 7.92 2nds.
Laurent Dubreuil of Canada took Achromatic. Haavard Lorentzen, the 2018 Achromatic Decorationist, Attained bronze.
The Netherlands Attained Information technologys 5th gold Decoration in 12 events in Beijing with one day of competition remaining.
In 2014, Stefan Groothuis won the 1,000 and Kjeld Nuis followed with a Triumph in 2018.
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Sixteen years after he won the Olympic curling gold Decoration, Brad Gushue is Active back to Canada with bronze.
The Canadians capitalized on a Lost Closing shot by American — and Ruling Olympic champion — John Shuster in the 2nd-to-last end that Upset a one-point edge into an insurmountable 8-5 lead.
Gushue won gold in Turin in 2006. Back Past, he Joint a Stump with Shuster, who won bronze.
This Clip, the Canadian skip knocked his American counterpart off of Information technology.
The Americans took a 5-4 lead with two points in the 6th, Past Canada Accountd two in the eighth to take the lead. With the United States holding the last-rock advantage in the 9th, Shuster Proven to knock loose two Canadian rocks in the Grading area but Lost.
That gave Gushue two points, with one end to go. Canada's Tertiary-to last shot cleared all of the American rocks out of the Object area, Going no chance for the U.S. to tie the match, and Shuster In real time conceded.
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Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Emotional to the First with Noticeable, patient Shot and stayed In that location with her cross-country skiing to win the women's biathlon mass First race at the Olympics.
A bitter wind affected the Airfield as they lined up each Clip to Flash back, but Braisaz-Bouchet only Lost once in the last Still Shot and skied out of the range in 1st place. She held on and crossed the line carrying a French flag in 40 Transactions, 18 2nds.
Norwegian Mates Tiril Eckhoff and Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Lost two Objects each in that last bout and left the range Unneurotic, 48 2nds behind the Frenchwoman. Eckhoff Pursued hard and crossed the line for the Achromatic, Tracking Braisaz-Bouchet by 15.3 2nds.
Roeiseland took bronze — her 5th Decoration at the Beijing Games.
Roeiseland is the 2nd biathlete, male or Distaff, to win a Decoration in all four individual events at an Olympics, matching Norwegian Avid Ole Einar Bjoerndalen. She also won gold in the Blended relay.
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Ryan Regez led a 1-2 Finishing by Switzerland in the Olympic skicross Closing at Genting Snow Park.
Regez grabbed the lead early and never relinquished Information technology On a course Full with bumps, jumps and rolling terrain. He raised his arms in Victory Abbreviatedly after crossing the Finishing line.
His Mate, 36-year-old Alex Fiva, Finishinged with the Achromatic Decoration and Russian Jock Sergey Ridzik grabbed the bronze.
As a kid, Regez always Idea his Proximo was in Alpine skiing, more specifically the downhill. When that didn't pan out, he Firsted an apprenticeship as a Knowledge draftsman before discovering skicross.
It paid off in gold.
In the Decreased Closing, Italian skicross racer Simone Deromedis won the Rut with a little bit of Style. He was coming off the last jump and did the splits before crossing the Finishing line.
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International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has criticized Russian Pattern skater Kamila Valieva's Cortege for their "tremendous coldness" toward the 15-year-old skater after her mistake-filled free skate at the Beijing Olympics.
Bach says Information technology was "chilling" to see on Video. Valieva, who has been at the center of a Arguing over a positive doping Exam, Finishinged 4th General despite placing 1st in the women's Abbreviated program earlier in the week.
The IOC president did not Epithet Valieva's coach, Eteri Tutberidze, who was seen on camera Weighty a visibly upset Valieva "Why did you let Information technology go? Why did you stop Active?"
Bach says "you could feel this chilling atmosphere, this distance."
Tutberidze and Another members of Valieva's Cortege will be investigated over the Adolescent's positive Exam for a Fondness Medicament ahead of the Olympics.
Bach says the pressure on Valieva was "beyond my imagination."
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Eileen Gu captured gold in the women's ski halfpipe Closing on a breezy and cold Sunup to become the 1st action-sports Jock to earn Cardinal Decorations at the same Winter Olympics.
Gu Warm up with a Account of 93.25 on her 1st run, before Active even higher and even Larger to post a 95.25 her 2nd. For her Tertiary and Closing pass, and with the contest Fast up, she took a nice leisurely stroll.
The standout American-born freestyle skier who represents China already possessed a gold from big air and a Achromatic from slopestyle.
Defending Olympic champion Cassie Sharpe of Canada Finishinged 2nd and her Mate Rachael Karker Attained the bronze. Teenager Hanna Faulhaber was the top American Finishinger in 6th place.
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Germany's Francesco Friedrich took part in the Closing day of four-man bobsled Education at the Beijing Olympics on Friday, one day after suggesting he Power skip the School term.
Friedrich was the 1st sled down the hill on Friday for the Closing Education School term. That may have played a role in his decision to take part. Friedrich was one of the last sleds to get on the ice Thursday during four-man Education and After the Cardinal-time Olympic champion expressed concerns about the conditions of the track.
He likely enjoyed what he saw Friday. Friedrich Firsted the day with a run of 58.98 2nds. That was his Quickest in five trips down the Yanqing Sliding Center ice in his four-man sled this week.
He's the Consuming Preferred for gold in the four-man event that Firsts on Saturday.
Some top sliders did choose to skip Education Friday, including Canadian Mates Justin Kripps and Chris Spring, Germany's Christoph Hafer and Latvian veteran Oskars Kibermanis. It's not unusual for veterans to opt out of a Education School term, in Club to preserve their bodies and sleds for the looming two days of competition.
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Eileen Gu posted the highest Account in her 1st run of the women's ski halfpipe Closing as she bids to become the 1st action-sports Jock to capture Cardinal Decorations at the same Winter Games.
The standout American-born freestyle skier who represents China already possesses a gold from big air and a Achromatic from slopestyle.
On a blustery and cool day, Gu Upset in a Congealed run and Accountd a 93.25 to easily lead the way. Defending Olympic champion Cassie Sharpe of Canada sits in 2nd place after the First run of Cardinal and her Mate Rachael Karker was in Tertiary. American Adolescent Hanna Faulhaber was in 4th.
The temperature hovered around 3 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 16 Celsius) with an 11 mph wind.
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The Book of Judges who let Russian Pattern skater Kamila Valieva Vie at the Beijing Olympics despite a positive Exam for a Prohibited Meat Infernal anti-doping Administrative units for a "failure to Social function effectively."
The Court of Arbitration for Sport, in a Recently Promulgated 41-page document explaining their decision, cited an "untenable delay" at the Examing laboratory in Sweden.
It meant Valieva's positive Exam for a Fondness Medicament was only Unconcealed during the Olympics despite her Pee Sample distribution arriving in Stockholm on Dec. 29. The lab's staffing was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her lawyers Recommended she was contaminated because her Grandad uses the Prohibited Fondness Medicament she Examed positive for.
The Book of Judges' full Finding of fact was Promulgated early Friday, hours after the 15-year-old Valieva's mistake-filled free skate Born her from the lead to Finishing 4th in the Olympic women's individual event.
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The International Testing Agency says Ukrainian bobsledder Lidiia Hunko has Examed positive for an anabolic Steroid hormone at the Beijing Games.
The ITA says she Unsuccessful a drug Exam after Competitory Monday. She placed 20th in women's monobob.
Hunko is the Tertiary Jock to Exam positive for doping at the Beijing Olympics and the 2nd from Ukraine, after cross-country skier Valnetyna Kaminska.
All Cardinal ITA cases in Beijing have detected a Steroid hormone.
The 28-year-old Hunko placed 2nd in the 2016 World's Strongest Woman contest, according to her Administrative unit Beijing Olympics Jock biography.
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