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Camila Valeeva’s message after the 2022 Olympics doping scandal

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Russian figure skater Kamila Valeeva is grateful for her support system after her dramatic experience at the Beijing Olympics, during which the 15-year-old was brought to light for failing a drug test. Valieva took to Instagram this week to reflect on her experience that ended last week after she finished fourth in a women’s singles event. “I want to thank everyone who was with me during this difficult time: who was by my side and did not let me lose my heart, who sent me messages of support, who was…

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NBC has the worst Olympic rankings ever with the Beijing 2022 Games

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The Beijing Winter Games had the lowest rate in Olympic history since NBC Universal began broadcasting the event decades ago. Broadcast via Comcast’s NBCU’s NBCU streaming, cable and live streaming platforms, the company said Tuesday that the Winter Olympics drew an average of 11.4 million prime-time viewers over two and a half weeks. That’s a 42% drop from the disastrously low-rated Pyeongchang Olympics in 2018, which had the lowest viewership to that point. “This was probably the toughest Olympics ever,” NBC Sports Chairman Pete Bevacqua told The Wall Street Journal.…

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Queen Elizabeth congratulates curling teams in Great Britain

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Queen Elizabeth II made her first official statement after testing positive for COVID-19 – and congratulated curling teams in Great Britain on their medal-winning performance at the Beijing Olympics. “I send my warmest congratulations to GB’s women’s curling team on your outstanding performance in winning the gold medal at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, following the silver medal by the men’s curling team yesterday,” the 95-year-old said. “I know your local communities and people across the UK will join me in sending our best wishes to you, your coaches, friends…

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Jesse Diggins wins the 2022 Silver Day at the 2022 Olympics after food poisoning

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ZANGJIAKO, CHINA – The great Norwegian Therese Johaug won her third gold medal at the Beijing Olympics on Sunday and Jesse Diggins took the silver for the best American result in an individual cross-country skiing event since 1976. In the face of high winds and harsh temperatures, Johaug took an early lead in the 30km group start race and went on to win in 1 hour 24 minutes 54 seconds. Johaug also won the ski race – the first gold medal in the Olympics – and the 10km classic. “I…

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Taiwan PM wants to punish skater for China suit

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Taipei, Taiwan – The Taiwanese prime minister wants to punish a Taiwanese Olympic speed skater for wearing what appears to be a suit from the Chinese team during training. Symbols on both sides are particularly sensitive at a time when China’s ruling Communist Party, which claims Taiwan is part of its territory even though the island has long worked with its government, is trying to intimidate democracy by flying fighter jets and bombers nearby. . Huang Yu-ting, one of four Taiwanese athletes at the Winter Games, posted a video on…

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Finnish figure skater Remi Lindholm suffers from frozen penis in Olympic mass start race

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Zhangjiakou, China – The men’s 50km mass start race at the Beijing Olympics was cut short to 30km, but that didn’t help Finn Remy Lindholm, who needed a heat pack at the end of the race to melt a sensitive part of the body. Lindholm spent less than an hour and 16 minutes traversing the track in howling, freezing winds causing his rod to freeze for a second time in a cross-country ski race after a similar incident in Ruka, Finland last year. He told Finnish media: “You can guess…

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Michaela Shiffrin, 4th in the US in the mixed skating teams event

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Michaela Shiffrin and the US mixed ski team lost a medal by 0.42 seconds, losing the bronze in the final alpine skiing event at the Beijing Olympics. The seeded Austrians won the gold at the second Winter Games for the mixed-team parallel event, postponing Germany in the final. The United States primarily used Shiffrin in the slower than parallel tournaments, and lost three of their four qualifiers, including the bronze match against Norway. Teammate River Radamos grabbed the victory the United States needed in the final playoffs to force a…

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The US hockey team is the subject of a noise complaint

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The US hockey team made a fuss in Beijing after all – not just on the ice. The Associated Press reports that team members were part of a late-night party at the Olympic Athletes Village that led to a noise complaint and a conversation between the US Olympic Committee, Paralympics, and USA Hockey. There was no property damage, unlike the 1998 Nagano Olympics when American NHL hockey players caused $3,000 in damage. The US men’s hockey team, which lost in the quarter-finals, was subjected to a noise complaint. AFP via…

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Ilana Myers Taylor, Sylvia Hoffman won bronze in sledding for two women

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American duo Ilana Myers-Taylor and Sylvia Hoffman won the bronze medal in the women’s sledge event in Beijing on Saturday night. The duo was signed in at 4:05.48, with the duo finishing behind only two German sleds. It’s the second medal for Myers Taylor, 37, at the Olympics, who broke her own record for the oldest American woman to medal at the Winter Olympics by five days. It is also the fifth Olympic medal in her career. Ilana Myers Taylor and Sylvia Hoffman won the bronze medal in the two-woman…

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Camila Valeeva’s drama about figure skating at the Winter Olympics attracts 10 million viewers

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15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valeeva’s faltering performance in the long-form routine Thursday night drew an audience of 10.3 million on Olympic TV and NBCUniversal’s digital broadcasts, according to network figures. NBC said the prime-time reruns of the figure skating competition in the United States brought in 1.4 million more viewers than coverage of the Olympics the night before. Valeeva, a gold medalist in the spotlight after testing positive for a heart medication, made mistakes in her first four jumps and burst into tears at the conclusion of her routine.…

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