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The mascot of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, Bing Dwen Dwen, made his debut in 2019 at the Shougang Ice Hockey Arena in Beijing. Xinyu Cui/Getty Images hide caption

The mascot of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, Bing Dwen Dwen, made his debut in 2019 at the Shougang Ice Hockey Arena in Beijing.

BEIJING One of the stars of this year's Winter Olympic Games is its mascot: a fluffy panda named Bing Dwen Dwen.

The stuffed animal version has become so sought after that people are camping overnight to buy it.

Outside one of Beijing's largest official Olympic merchandise store on a recent day, the line is long and growing longer despite a loudspeaker blaring the same line over and over: All Bing Dwen Dwen stuffed animals have sold out for the day.

Li Zhaoyang's still on his Lunar New Year break from high school, and he says he joined the line just to get in on all the buzz around Bing Dwen Dwen. He wants to collect the panda mascot as an Olympics memento.

One small problem I tell him: Bing Dwen Dwen is sold out. Even the 500 pandas allotted for pre-sale orders have been nabbed by people who lined up outside the store the night before.

Even those customers aren't so lucky. They will only be able to pick up their orders during the last week of February, after the Olympics Games have ended.

Bing Dwen Dwen, or "ice chubster" as his name roughly translates to, has skyrocketed in popularity all of a sudden, in part due to scarcity. Factories churning out soft collectibles are limiting production. The shortage has fueled a kind of mindless mania on social media for all things Bing Dwen Dwen.

Outside the Olympics store, Rose Ling and her young daughter also say they are in line simply to see what all the fuss is about.

Staff members dressed up as Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics mascot Bing Dwen Dwen (left) and 2022 Paralympics mascot Shuey Rhon Rhon stand in front of the Main Media Center last month in Beijing. Lintao Zhang/Getty Images hide caption

Staff members dressed up as Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics mascot Bing Dwen Dwen (left) and 2022 Paralympics mascot Shuey Rhon Rhon stand in front of the Main Media Center last month in Beijing.

"The line was huge just a few minutes ago," she says. "It wrapped around the corner just a few minutes ago, so we jumped in only to find out Bing Dwen Dwen is sold out."

For the more open-minded, there are other options. The Beijing Olympic Committee designed a Paralympics mascot named Shuey Rhon Rhon, a dancing red lantern available in cute, stuffed animal form as well.

But no one seems very eager.

"Xue Rongrong is just too ugly," says Roger Li, who's come with his friend to see what other Olympics-themed tchotchkes they can buy given Bing Dwen Dwen is beyond their purchasing power.

Scalpers are selling the swaddled up panda for up to Rmb2000 (about $300) he says, but then catches himself: "Am I allowed to say that for broadcast? Do you need an answer that's more in line with Chinese socialist values?" he asks NPR.

By the time I got into the Olympic souvenir shop, only a few gold bracelets and pins were left. No Bing Dwen Dwen. I could, however, sign up for a new credit card to enter a lottery for a chance to win one of the coveted bears.

Aowen Cao contributed research from Beijing.

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Viewers tuning into the Winter Olympics will likely notice a group of athletes who will be competing not under their own flag, but rather under the iconic five-ring Olympic banner, and there is a specific reason why.

Those athletes are competing under the name of the Russian Olympic Committee, or ROC for short. That's because Russia received a two-year ban from the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2019 for its state-sponsored doping program. Between Dec. 17, 2020, and Dec. 17, 2022, no athlete can represent Russia at the Olympics, Paralympics or World Championships.

The ban was originally set to last four years, but the Court of Arbitration for Sportreduced itto two years.

The years-long doping scheme was first revealed in 2016 by a whistleblower and included at least 15 medal winners from the 2014 Olympics, held in Sochi, Russia.

In 2017, the International Olympic Committee suspended Russia. After an appeal by several Russian athletes who were not linked to the scheme, the Court of Arbitrations for Sport allowed Russian athletes to participate in global competitions as neutral competitors. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, Russian athletes who passed drug tests competed under the "Olympic Athletes from Russia," or OAR, delegation.

Russian officials have long denied wrongdoing in connection with the case.

Watch all the action from the Beijing Olympics live on NBC

As part of the sanctions, ROC team uniforms cannot contain the Russian flag, but are allowed to be based on Russias national colors. If their uniforms say Russia, they must also include neutral athlete or something equivalent in the same size.

The Russian flag also cannot be flown in an official capacity at the Games and the national anthem can't be played. Any Russian athlete that wins a gold medal during the Olympics will see the Olympic flag raised and hear Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovskys Piano Concerto No. 1 will play at medal ceremonies.

Despite the sanctions and scrutiny, two OAR athletes failed doping tests at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics and were later punished, including mens curler Alexander Krushelnitskiy, who failed his test after winning a bronze medal in mixed doubles. He was suspended for four years, and he was stripped of his bronze medal.

The 2022 Games in Beijing will mark the final Olympics that the Russian athletes will have to compete under the ROC banner.

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As the Winter Olympics come to a close in Beijing, the Special Olympics of Texas is hosting its own weekend of winter games across the Lake Travisarea. With events in floorball, volleyball, powerlifting and cycling, athletes will travel from across the state for two days of competition and camaraderie on Friday and Saturday.

The sporting events will mostly take place on Saturday in venues across the Lake Travis region. On Friday, the main event is the kickoff reception at the Lakeway Resort and Spa from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Sarah Ribeiro, the director of development for Special Olympics of Texas, said she expects about 300 people to attend the event and hopes members of the community will come out in full force to celebrate the games.

Our CEO will be speaking, our board will be speaking, well hear from athletes. There's a silent auction. It's just basically a party, a celebration because weve been closed for two years (for COVID-19), and so we really would like to have the community involved in that.

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Details about how to RSVP and donate for the kickoff can be found online at sotx.org.

The athletic events take place throughout the day on Saturday, with many running all day from around 8 a.m. to about 5 p.m.

Floorball and volleyball will take place at Hill Country Indoor in Bee Cave, while powerlifting and cycling can be viewed at Bee Cave Middle School. An invitational golfing tournament will be at theFalconhead Golf Club. For more details about timing and location for each event can be found online at sotx.org/winter-games-schedule.

Shawn Britt, the executive director for the central and southern region of Special Olympics Texas, said anyone can attend any event for any amount of time with no tickets or reservations required.

This is the first games in two years so the athletes will be really excited if they can get fans out there cheering them on, she said.

Britt said spectators are also welcome to visit the Athletes Village at Hill Country Indoors, where participantswill spend time while not competing.

The event will also include health screenings at Hill Country Indoors, Britt said.

Athletes can get screened for dental vision, podiatry, she said. We have physicians donate their time as part of that and athletes come out with free glasses, dental referrals, sometimes when we do the hearing, they come out with hearing aids.

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The two-day sporting event will be capped off with a victory celebration at Star Hill Ranch,15000 Hamilton Pool Road inBee Cave. The evening starts with dinner from 5 to 6 p.m., followed by the victory dance from 7 to 9 p.m. Britt said of all the weekends festivities,she is most looking forward to the victory celebration.

We have what's called the Law Enforcement Torch Run where other police officers come out and they light the cauldron to celebrate the games, she said. The athletes get to hang out and visit with each other because they haven't seen each other in two years. This is our first state competition in two years, so the athletes are looking forward to getting back together and seeing each other.

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A dictatorship persecutes a minority but secures a propaganda coup by hosting the Olympics. The US Olympic committee plays along, the athletes say politics is none of their business and US corporations look the other way so they can make money.

But the 2022 Beijing Olympics are not the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Theyre worse and not just for the democracies, who are caught flatfooted once more.

The legend of 1936 is largely true. Jesse Owens really did outpace the master race in the foot race. The Nazis really did pull off a propaganda coup. They had Albert Speer and Leni Riefenstahl on their agitprop team, and Joseph Goebbels, the inventor of the Big Lie training technique, as head coach.

Speers stadium designs and Riefenstahls camerawork remain the unacknowledged templates of modern bread and circuses. To this day, budding dictators who dream of going for gold in the autocracy Olympics start their day with the Goebbels workout.

But thats as far as it goes for the parallels between Berlin then and Beijing now.

The Nazis health and fitness schlock went over big with the global audience. But they were also pumping the blood and iron to pacify the German public. The 1936 circus was a win-win for Adolfs athletes. The foreigners went home praising the Germans for being so hospitable (they were only following orders: The Fhrer had told them to be friendly).

And the International Olympic Committee, in its wisdom, granted Germany the 1940 Winter Olympics. The Germans got the message that sport is war in shorts and prepared to storm the podium until they stormed Poland instead and the games were canceled.

Compare that with Beijings lose-lose this winter. The Chinese arent massing in the streets to greet the foreign talent. Theyre not massing anywhere at all: Their government wont let them leave their homes.

The trains might run on time in China, but Chinas COVID vaccines are failures. The domestic audience for these games is in permanent COVID camp. In the race to exit COVID, China is winning the wooden spoon, on track to running it until 2023. You dont get gold for breaking the record for the longest lockdown and drawing the worlds attention to your failures is an Olympic-sized own goal, perhaps the biggest since Jesse Owens broke the tape in Berlin.

Foreign audiences arent falling for it either. Sure, weve seen echoes of 1936 in the inability of our dimwitted sportspersons to realize when theyre being played for propaganda, the hypocrisy of corporations like Coca-Cola and Nike, who patronize us with wokery while they flatter the proprietors of the biggest captive market in history, and the cowardice of a Democratic administration that issues a diplomatic boycott, which is a great way of insulting the hosts without actually achieving anything.

But look at the viewership: The Winter Olympics are a turn-off. On Wednesday, NBC admitted that this ordeal on ice has scored the lowest viewing figures in Olympic history, down nearly half from the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Unlike in 1936, Americans arent buying this. And while 1936 was all about masking the nature of Nazi Germany, this year, what we see is what were about to get.

The main event at these Olympics was Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping ending their long grudge match and agreeing to tag-team President Joe Biden. Xi and Putin upstaged the opening ceremony by issuing a marathon, 5,000-word communiqu. Its a blueprint for sweeping the board and driving the United States and the other Western democracies out of the global running. The last time two dictators agreed to share the winners spoils like this, it was Hitler and Stalin joining forces in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939.

The Russian president has a black belt in judo, and hes certainly thrown the Americans off-balance in his warm-up bout in Ukraine. The Chinese president is an accomplished mixed martial artist too: In January, he broke his own record for throwing jet fighters into Taiwans airspace.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden cant get off the starting blocks, and Kamala Harris talks a good game but doesnt turn up for the heats. Our leaders are setting new records in incompetence and theyre just not putting in the hard hours of training. They snooze, we lose.

Dominic Green is the editor of The Spectators world edition.

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Fall away left footer. DNF. 'Kiss and Cry.'

Sometimes picking up sports terminology can feel like learning a foreign language. The jargon was developed out of necessity to communicate complex ideas quickly, according to David Caldwell, a linguist who teaches at the University of South Australia.

Below, we've defined some common words and phrases that may leave you scratching your head as you watch our Olympic coverage on NBC and Peacock.

The shoes that lugers wear are called booties. In luge, perfect aerodynamics could be the split-second difference between winning a medal or not, so lugers footwear is optimized to reduce drag and help athletes get as much speed as possible.

This snowboarding move is when a rider grabs the edge of their board between their legs while keeping one leg extended.

A 1080 is when an athlete makes three rotations in the air. A double cork 1080 includes two flips and a twist.

This is a simple one. DNF means did not finish. It's usually used in sports as an acronym that indicates an athlete didn't finish an event they started.

Getting lost in aerials is when you lose track of where the ground is.

"That's a scary feeling, but I really wouldn't call it dizziness," American freestyle skier Christopher Lillis said. "It's more like I don't know when the ground is going to hit me."

"Getting lost" is similar to the "twisties" in gymnastics.

In curling, hack weight is a shorthand way to refer to the force and momentum required for the stone to travel to the end.

No, it's not a weapon or a tool. In curling, a hammer is a name for the last shot of an end, or round. Sometimes, teams that want to control their destiny with that last shot will strategize to gain control of the hammer.

A hockey hat trick happens when a player scores three goals in a game. When that happens, fans tend to throw a cascade of hats onto the ice, especially if the player is on the home team. A natural hat trick is when a player scores three goals in a row in one game, according to the National Hockey League.

The acronym for the International Olympic Committee. The IOC is the authority for everything concerning the Olympic Games. The IOC supervises, supports and monitors the Games and ensures that all of the rules are respected and followed.

The sport of figure skating adopted the term "Kiss and Cry" in the 1980s. It described the area where figure skaters and their coaches await scores to be announced after they perform.

"It's a place where you can celebrate or cry depending on how the program went and depending on how the scores went," American figure skater Nathan Chen told NBCLX.

It is now an official part of the International Skating Union Regulations.

You may have noticed athletes wearing "kiss and cry" badges in figure skating events at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Here is what they mean.

This is when a snowboarder rotates at least 540 degrees and does a front flip. The name of this move comes from skateboarder Mike McGill.

Shaun White is credited with crafting the double McTwist for a 720 degree rotation that earned him a gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010.

After a fall on his first run on Tuesday, Shaun Whites solid second run earned him a spot in the mens snowboard halfpipe final.

Named after Canadian snowboarder Michael Michalchuk, this move is when a snowboarder does a backflip on the halfpipes backside wall.

Both a skiing event and a feature of the course. They are bumps or mounds of snow that require serious skill and dexterity to navigate with grace. The term mogul is actually adapted from the German word "Mugel," which means small hill.

Freestyle skier Jaelin Kauf explains everything you might want to know about mogul skiing, the ultimate test of turns and aerial moves.

A quad, or a quadruple, in figure skating is when the skater jumps into the air and spins around at least four times.

ROC stands for Russian Olympic Committee. It's a group of athletes who aren't allowed to compete under their own flag, but instead under the five-ring Olympic banner.

The reason? In 2017, international officials reached a decision that Russian athletes would compete with the altered name and flag because they had found the country had engaged in a state-sponsored doping program, providing athletes with performance-enhancing drugs.

214 athletes are competing for the ROC, or Russian Olympic Committee, in Beijing.

Russian officials have denied any wrongdoing in connection to the case.

The 2022 Games in Beijing will be the last time Russian athletes will have to compete as ROC, officials said.

Skiing out means missing a gate at any point during a ski race. During the Winter Olympics, this means instant elimination from the event, even if it spans multiple runs. Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin "skied out" of two races at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

U.S. Alpine Skier Mikaela Shiffrin did not finish her first run in the Slalom on Tuesday.

In alpine skiing, the super-G stands for super giant slalom, an event that combines the speed of downhill with the more precise turns of giant slalom. Theres less of a vertical drop than the downhill and gates are placed closer together. Each skier makes one run down a single course and the fastest time wins.

Skier Paula Moltzan explains the different disciplines of alpine skiing, how fast ski racers can go and how she gets to the top of the mountain (other than by chairlift).

Switch refers to when a snowboarder is riding backwards and a cork is an off-axis rotation and if a rider inverts twice, its a double cork.

Trimetazidine, also known as TMX, was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) prohibited list back in 2014. It's typically prescribed to treat angina, which is chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart.

However, it can help athletes, too. "According to knowledge of the pharmacology and mechanism of TMZ action, TMZ can be used by athletes to improve physical efficiency, especially in the case of endurance sports," scientists wrote in a 2014 paper on abuse of the drug by Polish athletes.

NBC Sports reported that Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva tested positive for trimetazidine, a banned substance. What is trimetazidine and have athletes been caught using it before?

This snowboarding move is when an athlete speeds up on the side of the halfpipe and makes three spins while twisting above the pipe. With moves like this, theres really no way to correct yourself if something goes wrong, according to Team USAs Taylor Gold.

With the tricks that have preceded this one, theres usually a way of getting out of it if it goes wrong, Gold said. With this one, theres really no way of getting out of it.

In snowboarding, a number refers to the degrees of rotation in a spin. A 1440 is a combination of flips and sideways twists.

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BEIJING They were the feel-good story of the Winter Olympics in 2018: young women from a remote farming county who catapulted South Korea to curling glory by winning its first Olympic medal in the sport.

Then, that same year, the team the Korean press had nicknamed theGarlic Girls (in a nod to the iconic produce of their region) shocked the country by accusing their coaches of verbal and psychological abuse.

Nine months after their victory at the Games, the team called a surprise news conference during which they aired their grievances against their two coaches and the father of one of the coaches, who was also the vice president of the Korean Curling Federation.

The Garlic Girls said the trio swore at them, berated them if they interacted with other athletes, banned them from using social media and withheld their prize money. They also tried to sideline the team captain, Kim Eun-jung, after learning of her plans to start a family.

To be honest, Im not completely sure if were over this yet, Kim Kyeong-ae, a team member, wrote in an email to The New York Times as she prepared for the Beijing Winter Olympics this month.

While some of South Koreas top athletes have grown used to decades of harsh training and abuse, a younger generation has started to push back, inspired at least in part by the Garlic Girls.

Their news conference helped revive painful discussions about the mistreatment of athletes in South Korea, where nepotism, exploitation and misconduct have been common for decades. Elite sports in the country are notoriously hierarchical, with men often on top and athletes told not to question orders.

In 2008, the governments National Human Rights Commission said nearly 80 percent of student athletes in middle and high schools had been subjected to physical and verbal abuse from their coaches and older teammates.

After the Garlic Girls spoke out, there was an outpouring of other accounts of abuse, including from Shim Suk-hee, a member of South Koreas national short-track speedskating team and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, who said she had been repeatedly raped by her former coach. (Last year he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.)

Several female athletes in judo, taekwondo and wrestling also came forward to accuse their male coaches of sexual abuse.

In February 2019, after an investigation, the government said that most of the allegations made by the Garlic Girls were true. The two coaches and Kim Kyung-doo, the curling official, were banned from the sport for life.

And for the first time ever, South Korea appointed three foreign coaches to lead the womens, mens and mixed double curling teams at the Olympics. The Garlic Girls are set to compete against Canada in Beijing on Thursday in a round-robin match.

Although we cant know of and change all the corruption in the sporting world, at least in this sport we can reveal what has been going on in the hopes that it wont happen again, wrote Kim Kyeong-ae, 28, in her email.

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But those who speak out risk being sidelined or criticized. Coaches have immense control over their athletes, who are recruited at a young age and live in dormitories. Many of them are taken out of school and feel they have no career options if they fail.

Oh Ji-hoon, a former speedskater who has trained in both the United States and South Korea, said that Korean athletes typically dont question their coaches methods of discipline and training because they get used to it from a young age.

In Korea, training programs are way more intense than those of the U.S., Mr. Oh said. There is less leeway, much less flexibility and, candidly, its fairly common for coaches to yell at skaters.

After the curling team went public with their accusations, Peter Gallant, a Canadian coach who guided them to their silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics, publicly backed the players.

Mr. Gallant is now the teams head coach, and curling experts say his experience is likely to propel the Garlic Girls to greater heights. The team adores him, referring to him as Appa, or father in Korean. In an email, Mr. Gallant noted that the level of respect the curlers have for those who are older than them is so high that nothing is really questioned during practice.

That is not necessarily good. A coach wants his athletes to ask questions, he added.

Four of the five Garlic Girls come from Uiseong, a farming community and a seemingly unlikely site for a sporting revolution. The rural town of 53,000 people uses a cartoon garlic bulb as the county mascot.

The Garlic Girls have said their previous coaches often made them feel ashamed for not coming from a major city. Its useless training people from the countryside, they recalled being told.

Uiseong, however, is home to one of South Koreas first curling facilities, built in 2006 after a former government official saw the sport on a trip to Canada.

Kim Eun-jung, the captain, and currently ranked seventh in the world, fell in love with the sport after trying it during gym class in middle school. She encouraged her classmate Kim Yeong-mi to join, who was followed by her younger sister, Kim Kyeong-ae.

Kim Cho-hi, the only team member not from Uiseong, also started curling in middle school, but in Gyeonggi Province, just outside of Seoul.

Because they all have the same surname, the Garlic Girls are also known as Team Kim. To differentiate themselves, each chose a nickname honoring their favorite breakfast food. Ms. Kim Eun-jung is Annie, the name of a yogurt brand. Kim Yeong-mi is Pancake, while her sister, Kyeong-ae, is Steak. Kim Cho-hi is ChoCho, a nod to chocolate cookies, which she loves to eat for breakfast. Kim Seon-yeong is Sunny, for sunny-side-up eggs.

The team was an underdog going into the 2018 Winter Olympics, but pulled off upsets against Canada and Switzerland, two curling powerhouses. Almost overnight, the Garlic Girls became a sensation in a country that knew little about curling.

In the past two years, the pandemic has made practice challenging. Several competitions were canceled. And unlike teams from countries where curling has long been popular, the Garlic Girls often must travel abroad for competitions and training, which has meant dealing with quarantines and spending more time away from home.

But Mr. Gallant said the teams experience with their previous coaches prepared them for the future, even with the pandemic. In an interview with Rocks Across the Pond, a curling podcast, he said there was no question that it created a kind of toughness in them.

To do what they did, to make everything public, took a lot of courage and effort, he said. No matter what they face now, its not going to be as bad as that.

Sui-Lee Wee reported from Beijing and Jin Yu Young from Seoul.

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Less than a year after the postponed Tokyo Olympics, the Beijing Olympics began on February 3 with a small audience. The U.S. is participating in a diplomatic boycott of the Games, which means no government officials will be in attendance, but sent 224 athletesthe largest delegation from any participating country. The Winter Olympics are typically a smaller affair than their summer counterpart, with 2,874 athletes participating representing 91 different countries. (As opposed to 11,656 athletes last summer from 206 nations.)

Here are some photo highlights from the 19 days of competition in Beijing.

Day 10: Monobob

Gold medalist Kaillie Humphries of Team United States (L) and Silver medalist Elana Meyers Taylor of Team United States (R) celebrate during the women's monobob bobsleigh finals.

Day 10: Women's Freestyle Skiing

Dominique Ohaco of Team Chile performs a trick during the women's freestyle skiing slopestyle qualification.

Day 10: Ice Dancing

Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of Team France skate during the ice dance free dance event.

Day 10: Ski Jumping

Dominik Peter of Team Switzerland competes during the men's team ski jumping.

Day 10: Ski Jumping

Stefan Kraft, Daniel Huber and Jan Hoerl and Maneul Fettner of Team Austria celebrate winning the gold medal at the men's ski jumping final.

Day 9: Speed Skating

Erin Jackson of Team United States reacts after winning the gold medal during the Women's 500m.

Day 9: Women's Freestyle Skiing Aerials

Akmarzhan Kalmurzayeva of Team Kazakhstan performs a trick on a practice run ahead of the Women's Freestyle Skiing Aerials Qualification.

Day 9: Speed Skating

Team Canada skate during the men's team pursuit quarterfinals at National Speed Skating Oval.

Day 9: Curling

Agnes Knochenhauer, Anna Hasselborg and Sofia Mabergs of Team Sweden compete against Team United States during the Women's Curling Round Robin Session.

Day 9: Cross Country Skiing

Friedrich Moch of Team Germany competes during the Men's Cross-Country Skiing 4x10km Relay.

Day 9: Snowboard Big Air training

Katie Ormerod of Team Great Britain performs a trick during a Snowboard Big Air training session.

Day 8: Speed Skating

Cornelius Kersten of Team Great Britain and Ivan Arzhanikov of Team Kazakhstan skate during the Men's 500m at National Speed Skating Oval.

Day 8: Ice Dancing

Misato Komatsubara and Tim Koleto of Team Japan skate during the ice dance rhythm dance event.

Day 8: Snowboard Mixed Team Cross

Gold medalists Lindsey Jacobellis (L) and Nick Baumgartner (R) of Team United States celebrate during the mixed team snowboard cross finals flower ceremony at Genting Snow Park.

Day 8: Snowboard Mixed Team Cross

Lindsey Jacobellis of Team United States (R) and Michela Moioli of Team Italy (L) cross the finish line during the snowboard mixed team cross final.

Day 7: Women's Super G

Mikaela Shiffrin competes during the Women's Super G in Yanqing China.

Day 7: Ski Jumping

Halvor Egner Granerud of Team Norway competes during the men's large hill individual trial round for qualification at the National Ski Jumping Center in Zhangjiakou, China.

Day 7: Men's Snowboard Halfpipe

Shaun White's Olympic career comes to an end at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.

Day 7: Men's Snowboard Halfpipe

Shaun White embraces his coach JJ Thomas after finishing fourth during the men's snowboard halfpipe final.

Day 7: Women's Ice Hockey

Team Canada huddles prior to the start of the game against Team Sweden during the women's ice hockey quarterfinal match.

Day 7: Men's Skeleton

Zheng Yin of Team China slides during a men's skeleton heat.

Day 7: Short Track Speed Skating

Suzanne Schulting of Team Netherlands competes during the Women's 1000m Final A.

Day 6: Women's Snowboard Halfpipe

Gold medalist Chloe Kim of Team United States wipes away a tear during the women's snowboard halfpipe final flower ceremony.

Day 6: Women's Snowboard Halfpipe

Chloe Kim after winning gold.

Day 6: Men's Skeleton

Tomass Dukurs of Team Latvia slides during the Men's Skeleton heats.

Day 6: Figure Skating

Nathan Chen skates during the men's single free skate competition.

Day 6: Figure Skating medal ceremony

Nathan Chen of Team United States with his gold medal during medal ceremony for the men's singles figure skating competition.

Day 6: Men's Snowboard Cross

Athletes compete during the men's snowboard cross quarterfinals at Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou, China.

Day 6: Figure Skating

Yuma Kagiyama of Team Japan skates during the men's single free skate competition.

Day 5: Women's Snowboard Halfpipe

Mitsuki Ono of Team Japan performs a trick during the Women's snowboard halfpipe qualification.

Day 5: Women's Skeleton training

Valentina Margaglio of Team Italy slides during Women's Skeleton training at National Sliding Centre.

Day 5: Short Track Speed Skating

Shaoang Liu of Team Hungary, Steven Dubois of Team Canada, Semen Elistratov of Team ROC, Adil Galiakhmetov of Team Kazakhstan and Daeheon Hwang of Team South Korea compete during the Men's 1500m Final A.

Day 5: Women's Slalom

Gold medalist Petra Vlhova of Team Slovakia celebrates on the podium.

Day 5: Men's Ice Hockey

Goalkeeper Simon Hrubec #11 of Team Czech Republic defends the goal against Team Denmark in the first period during the Men's Preliminary Round Group B match.

Day 4: Speed Skating

Sergei Trofimov (L) of Team ROC and Emery Lehman (R) of Team United States skate during the Men's 1500m.

Day 4: Men's Skeleton training

China's Yin Zheng takes part in the men's skeleton training at the Yanqing National Sliding Centre.

Day 3: Figure Skating Team Event

USA's Alexa Knierim and USA's Brandon Frazier compete in the pair skating of the figure skating team event.

Day 3: Figure Skating Team Event

Japan's Kaori Sakamoto competes in the women's free skate of the figure skating team event.

Day 3: Figure Skating Team Event

Karen Chen of Team United States reacts after skating during the women's free skate.

Day 3: Curling Mixed Doubles

Rachel Homan of Team Canada competes against Team Italy.

Day 3: Men's Freestyle Skiing - Big Air

Nicholas Goepper of Team United States performs a trick during the qualification rounds of the men's freestyle skiing big air competition at Big Air Shougang.

Day 3: Figure Skating Team Event

Canada's Vanessa James and Canada's Eric Radford compete in the pair skating part of the figure skating team event.

Day 3: Women's Giant Slalom

USA's Mikaela Shiffrin disqualifies in the first run of the women's giant slalom.

Day 3: Figure Skating Team Event

Madison Chock and Evan Bates of Team United States skate during the ice dance part of the figure skating team event.

Day 2: Men's Freestyle Big Air training

An athlete performs during the Freestyle Skiing Big Air training session.

Day 1: Women's Ice Hockey

Team United States celebrate their 5-0 win over Team ROC during the Women's Preliminary Round Group A.

Day 1: Men's Freestyle Skiing Big Air training

A scene from the Men's Freestyle Skiing Big Air Training session.

Day 1: Women's Short Track Speed Skating

Kim Boutin of Team Canada, Petra Jaszapati of Team Hungary and Maame Biney of Team United States compete during the Women's 500m Heats.

Day 1: Men's Freestyle Skiing Moguls

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