BEIJING (AP) — The Newest on the Beijing Winter Olympics:
Defending champion Sofia Goggia says she “will be in there” competing for a medal in Tuesday’s Olympic downhill regardless of not competing since badly injuring her left knee and leg in a crash three weeks in the past.
The Italian positioned fourth within the closing coaching session.
Joana Haehlen of Switzerland led the session and was 0.61 seconds forward of Goggia.
Mikaela Shiffrin positioned seventeenth and stated she is going to race the downhill after indicating following the opening coaching session that she wasn’t certain. The 2-time Olympic champion continues to be looking for her first medal in Beijing.
Former total World Cup champion Federica Brignone didn’t qualify for a downhill beginning spot on Italy’s group.
Tamara Tippler appeared to seize the ultimate beginning spot for Austria.
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Tricia Mangan of the US and Jasmine Flury of Switzerland crashed, however each appeared to keep away from severe damage.
Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva is on the ice practising lower than an hour after studying she’ll be allowed to compete within the ladies’s particular person occasion on the Beijing Olympics.
She’s skating together with teammate Alexandra Trusova and 4 different opponents. Her coach, Eteri Tutberidze, is in conjunction with the rink.
Valieva appeared intently centered on her heat up. She’s the favourite for the gold medal within the particular person occasion, which begins Tuesday.
When it was her flip to run by her follow program, she did not seem to stumble or falter. Her skating elicited a smattering of applause from Russian press watching from an space designated for media.
The Court docket of Arbitration for Sport dominated that the 15-year-old shouldn’t be provisionally suspended. She examined optimistic for a banned coronary heart drug earlier than the Olympics, on Dec. 25.
The ruling doesn’t resolve the destiny of the gold medal she received as a part of the group competitors.
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee says it is dissatisfied Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva might be allowed to compete for a second gold medal regardless of failing a pre-Olympics drug check.
The Court docket of Arbitration for Sport dominated that the 15-year-old Valieva, the favourite for the ladies’s particular person gold, shouldn’t be provisionally suspended forward of a full listening to into her optimistic check for a banned coronary heart drug on Dec. 25.
USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland says the committee is dissatisfied by the message the ruling sends. She says athletes are being denied the suitable to know they’re competing on a degree taking part in area. She says it is a part of a systemic and pervasive disregard for clear sport by Russia.
The ruling means Valieva can compete beginning Tuesday within the ladies’s particular person competitors, the place she’s a favourite for gold.
It doesn’t resolve the destiny of the gold medal she received as a part of the group competitors. The U.S. received silver and could be in line for gold if the Russian medal is revoked.
Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva might be allowed to compete for a second gold medal on the Winter Olympics regardless of failing a pre-Video games drug check.
The Court docket of Arbitration for Sport dominated Monday that the 15-year-old Valieva, the favourite for the ladies’s particular person gold, doesn’t have to be provisionally suspended forward of a full listening to into her optimistic check for the guts drug trimetazidine. The optimistic check was Dec. 25.
The Russian group can nonetheless purpose for the primary ladies’s determine skating podium sweep in Olympic historical past. The occasion begins with the quick program Tuesday and concludes Thursday with the free skate. Valieva is the favourite to win gold.
The ruling solely addresses whether or not Valieva can maintain skating earlier than her case is resolved. It doesn’t resolve the destiny of the one gold medal that she has already received.
Olympic champion Jamie Anderson says life in Beijing’s pandemic bubble has been tough for her psychological well being, leaving her “a bit of bit tapped out” and “excited to go dwelling.”
The American snowboarder did not qualify for the finals in ladies’s large air Monday. She stated the Beijing Video games have been a draining slog for her and her teammates.
“We’ve been right here for thus lengthy and I really feel like our entire crew is simply over it,” Anderson stated. “Simply barely hanging on by a fricking strand of hair. Similar to, bored with the meals, homesick, bored with the strain.”
The 31-year-old Anderson got here to China a two-time defending champion in slopestyle and received silver in large air on the 2018 Pyeongchang Video games. She completed ninth attempting to defend her slopestyle titles final week, then stated on Instagram that she “straight up couldn’t deal with the strain” and that her “psychological well being and readability simply hasn’t been on par.”
Anderson says she’s not able to retire, however she’s unsure what’s subsequent for her so far as aggressive snowboarding. She plans to take a while and free trip, then reset and see how she feels.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee says it needed all the investigation of Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva’s doping case to be accomplished in the course of the Olympics.
The Court docket of Arbitration for Sport is predicted to announce Monday afternoon Beijing time whether or not Valieva can compete within the ladies’s determine skating occasion that begins Tuesday, the place she could be a heavy favourite.
However they received’t resolve now whether or not Valieva is responsible of doping, nor whether or not the Russian skaters can maintain the gold group medal they received with Valieva’s assist. These questions might be answered by a separate investigation led by the Russian anti-doping company.
Valieva is the sturdy favourite for gold if CAS lets her compete within the particular person competitors regardless of a optimistic doping check from earlier than the Olympics. It was solely revealed final week after she competed within the group competitors.
IOC spokesman Mark Adams says it needed all authorized points “settled as soon as and for all earlier than this competitors begins.”
Adams says the events – which embrace the IOC, World Anti-Doping Company and the Russian group – couldn’t agree on a course of.
Adams says “it’s a deeply regarding scenario for us and naturally for all athletes” affected.
Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France broke their very own ice dance world report to win the Olympic gold medal that narrowly eluded them 4 years in the past in Pyeongchang.
The final determine skaters on the ice for the free dance, Papadakis and Cizeron scored 136.15 factors to “Elegie” by the early twentieth century French composer Gabriel Faure.
That gave them 226.98 factors, beating their earlier mark of 226.61 set on the 2019 NHK Trophy in Japan. It was sufficient to carry off Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov.
The Russian world champions took silver with 220.51 factors whereas the American duo of Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue claimed bronze of their closing Olympics. The 2 have already introduced they plan to retire.
One other pair of People, Madison Chock and Evan Bates, completed fourth.
Eileen Gu has made it by to slopestyle finals in freestyle snowboarding. She overcame quite a few bobbles in her first qualifying run to nail down a stable second journey down the mountain and safe her spot within the high 12.
The 18-year-old American-born freestyler is competing for her mom’s dwelling nation of China on the Beijing Video games. She received the gold medal in large air final week, and also will compete within the halfpipe contest later this week.
Whereas Gu awaited her rating after the second run, she stood on the backside and ate a dumpling. Then, she rushed off to the halfpipe, the place follow had begun about an hour earlier.
The slopestyle closing is about for Tuesday.
Kaillie Humphries has captured a 3rd Olympic gold medal, and her first for the U.S.
The former Canadian bobsledder was a simple winner of the inaugural ladies’s monobob occasion. It is the primary sliding medal for the U.S. in seven occasions to date — the others being 4 in luge and two in skeleton — on the Beijing Video games.
Elana Meyers Taylor of the U.S. was second. It was the fourth medal of Meyers Taylor’s profession, essentially the most received by anybody in USA Bobsled historical past.
Humphries has 4 medals now as nicely, the primary three of these for Canada. She started sliding for the U.S. in 2019 and obtained her citizenship in December. That allowed her to signify the U.S. in Beijing.
Christine de Bruin of Canada received bronze.
Canadian ahead Melodie Daoust has returned to the lineup for the ladies’s hockey semifinal sport towards Switzerland on the Beijing Olympics.
Daoust missed 4 video games after being sidelined with an upper-body damage sustained within the second interval of a 12-1 preliminary round-opening win over the Swiss. She is participating within the semifinal pre-game skate and listed again at her acquainted spot on Canada’s second line alongside middle Sarah Fillier and winger Natalie Spooner.
Canada entered the playoffs because the Olympic match’s high seed and is looking for to make its seventh consecutive gold-medal sport look on Thursday.
For Switzerland, ahead Lisa Ruedi returns after lacking a 4-2 quarterfinal win over the Russian group whereas spending two days in COVID-19 isolation. The Swiss group honored her in the course of the sport by hanging her No. 12 jersey behind their bench.
The defending Olympic champion United States faces Finland within the different semifinal later Monday.
Slopestyle silver medalist Julia Marino of the US has dropped out of the Olympic snowboard large air contest after a fall in follow.
The 24-year-old Marino was set to leap twenty third within the 30-snowboarder area throughout qualifying Monday, simply forward of 2018 gold medalist Anna Gasser of Austria. It was a shock when she didn’t seem.
Group USA snowboarding stated in an announcement that Marino fell throughout follow a couple of days in the past and is “prioritizing her well being.”
Marino’s scratch seems to have been a late choice. The Connecticut resident shared video of herself practising at Large Air Shougang on Instagram about 12 hours earlier than qualifying started, encouraging followers to tune in.
The embattled coach of Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva, whose future on the Olympics might be introduced later Monday by the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport, confirmed as much as watch her daughter compete within the ice dance competitors in Beijing.
Eteri Tutberidze stood towards the wall in an not noticeable nook of Capital Indoor Stadium to look at Diana Davis compete with accomplice Gleb Smolkin within the free dance. Davis and Smolkin completed nicely out of medal rivalry.
Tutberidze has come underneath fireplace after Valieva’s drug check from December was flagged final week for traces of a banned coronary heart treatment. The case was referred to CAS, which met for about 5 1/2 hours at a Beijing resort late Sunday, to resolve whether or not to permit the 15-year-old gold medal favourite to compete within the ladies’s competitors starting Tuesday night time.
Their choice is predicted Monday afternoon in Beijing, simply when Valieva is subsequent scheduled to follow.
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