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The organizers of the Beijing Olympics say no new optimistic COVID checks had been reported within the Olympic bubble on Friday.

Since January 23, 265 individuals have examined optimistic on arrival on the airport and one other 171 have examined optimistic within the Olympic bubble, for a complete of 436 optimistic circumstances.

The bubble permits Olympics members to skip quarantine once they arrive in China, but it surely means their actions have been severely restricted. Everyone seems to be examined each day for the virus, and anybody who checks optimistic is rapidly remoted to forestall the virus from spreading. Everyone seems to be required to put on N95 face masks besides athletes whereas they’re competing.

Of those that examined optimistic within the bubble, 68 had been athletes or coaches and 103 had been different individuals working on the Video games. Greater than 1.7 million each day checks had been administered to individuals within the bubble.

Irene Schouten of the Netherlands has gained her third gold medal of the Beijing Olympics, outsprinting Canada’s Ivanie Blondin to win the ladies’s mass begin.

Within the remaining speedskating occasion of the Winter Video games, Schouten established herself as the largest star on the Ice Ribbon with a livid push to line to beat Blondin by 0.06 seconds.

Schouten let loose a scream as she crossed the road, including to her gold medals within the 3,000 and 5,000 meters. In a nifty bookend, she gained the primary and final speedskating occasions in Beijing.

Blondin settled for the silver, whereas the bronze went to Italy’s Francesca Lollobrigida.

It was a irritating remaining day on the oval for the U.S. workforce, which simply missed a medal in each races. Mia Manganello Kilburg settled for fourth within the ladies’s occasion to match the end of the highest American within the males’s occasion, Joey Mantia, who was edged out for a medal in a photograph end.

The Netherlands once more topped the speedskating medal desk, ending with six golds and 12 medals total. The USA completed with three medals, their finest exhibiting since 2010.

Attorneys for the U.S. determine skaters who gained silver within the workforce occasion have notified the Worldwide Olympic Committee that they’ve filed an attraction to have the medals awarded earlier than the tip of the Beijing Video games, The Related Press has discovered.

The medal ceremony has been delayed due to the controversy surrounding Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva, who helped Russia win gold within the workforce occasion. She failed a pre-Olympics drug take a look at, however the consequence wasn’t revealed till after the workforce competitors.

AP obtained a replica of a letter despatched to IOC president Thomas Bach Saturday wherein attorneys mentioned they might ask the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport for a ruling earlier than Sunday’s closing ceremony.

Bart Swings of Belgium has captured the gold medal within the remaining males’s speedskating occasion of the Beijing Olympics, the mass begin.

Swings improved on the silver medal he gained within the frenetic occasion on the 2018 Pyeongchang Video games. South Korea grabbed the opposite medals, with Chung Jae Gained taking the silver and defending Olympic champion Lee Seung Hoon settling for bronze this time.

Three-time world champion Joey Mantia of the USA simply missed out on a medal. He posted the identical time as Lee, however the replay confirmed the tip of the South Korean’s skate crossed the road simply forward of Manti’s blade.

The ladies’s mass begin will shut out speedskating on the Ice Ribbon.

Alexander Bolshunov has sprinted to his third Olympic gold medal, profitable a 30-kilometer mass begin cross-country ski race that was rescheduled and shortened due to sturdy wind and frigid temperatures.

The Russian was a part of a five-man breakaway within the remaining kilometer. He pushed forward on the ultimate climb into the stadium, taking the title in 1 hour, 11 minutes, 32.7 seconds.

Russian teammate Ivan Yakimushkin crossed the road 5.5 seconds behind for silver, and Simen Hegstad Krueger of Norway took bronze, 7 seconds behind.

Bolshunov additionally gained gold within the skiathlon and the relay on the Beijing Video games. He took silver within the 15-kilometer basic ski race and bronze within the workforce dash.

World Cup chief Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo fell off the again of the lead group about 33 minutes into the race and took his bib off and walked off the tracks with about 7.9 kilometers to go.

The Worldwide Olympic Committee member who oversaw Beijing Winter Video games preparations since 2015 has been put again on its government board.

Juan Antonio Samaranch, whose father of the identical identify was IOC president from 1980-2001, was voted into the one open vice chairman slot. There are 4 vice presidents. The youthful Samaranch was beforehand a vice chairman from 2016 to 2020.

It places him into place for an anticipated run on the IOC presidency in 2025. Present IOC guidelines require Thomas Bach to face apart after 12 years as president.

Samaranch replaces Yu Zaiqing of China, who needed to step down after finishing the utmost two consecutive four-year phrases.

Samaranch’s return to the 15-member board was accepted by the complete membership assembly in Beijing forward of Sunday’s closing ceremony. The voting was 72 for and 4 in opposition to. 9 members abstained.

Defending Olympic champion Nana Takagi has crashed out of the mass begin semifinals, the second time the Japanese speedskater has fallen whereas main a race in Beijing.

Takagi stumbled and her left hand touched the rinkside padding earlier than she slid on her aspect into the outer padding.

Takagi misplaced her stability whereas main the workforce pursuit and crashed within the final nook, which value the Japanese ladies a gold medal.

Ivanie Blondin, who led Canada to a gold medal in workforce pursuit, gained her semifinal. Francesca Lollobrigida of Italy, silver medalist within the 3,000, gained the opposite semi.

Additionally advancing to the ultimate was Claudia Pechstein of Germany. The nine-time Olympic medalist turns 50 on Tuesday.

Individuals Mia Manganello Kilburg and Olympic rookie Giorgia Birkeland additionally moved on.

There have been three falls within the first semi, together with Marijke Groenewoud of the Netherlands. She went down in a nook with 4 laps go go, however received up and completed fifth to qualify for the ultimate.

Irene Schouten of the Netherlands, winner of the three,000, additionally made the 16-woman remaining.

Defending champion Lee Seung Hoon of South Korea has certified for the ultimate of males’s mass begin speedskating.

Lee gained the occasion that made its debut 4 years in the past in his dwelling nation.

Additionally transferring on to the ultimate are 2018 silver medalist Bart Swings of Belgium, three-time world champion Joey Mantia of the USA, and 2020 world champion Jorrit Bergsma of the Netherlands.

Sven Kramer of the Netherlands certified for the final Olympic remaining of his profession. The 35-year-old skater who’s a nine-time medalist completed seventh within the semifinals.

Chinese language organizers say a complete of 97,000 spectators have attended medal occasions on the Beijing Olympics.

That’s lower than two-thirds of the 150,000 predicted on the eve of the Olympics greater than two weeks in the past. The video games shut Sunday.

The quantity was revealed at an IOC assembly by the manager vice chairman of the native organizing committee, Zhang Jiandong.

Venues in Beijing and Zhangjiakou may have invited spectators to attend however followers weren’t allowed at Alpine snowboarding and sliding sports activities in Yanqing.

Plans to promote tickets to worldwide guests had been scrapped final 12 months due to the coronavirus pandemic and the block was prolonged to residents of China in January.

Spectators had been to be invited from worldwide communities residing in mainland China, members of diplomatic missions and advertising and marketing companions.

The boys’s 50-kilometer cross-country ski race on the Olympics has been delayed and the size lowered to 30 kilometers due to the climate.

The Worldwide Ski Federation mentioned the choice was made “regarding the athletes security to scale back the time of publicity of athletes in excessive situations.”

The wind has blasted the Zhangjiakou Nationwide Cross Nation Middle all morning, sending plumes of snow into the air.

The temperature is hovering round minus 18 levels C (0 levels F).

The 50-kilometer race can take as much as two hours to finish, leaving athletes uncovered and inclined to frostbite. The racers will ski a 7.1-kilometer course 4 occasions, as an alternative of the initially deliberate six laps on an 8.3-kilometer course.

The final Alpine snowboarding race of the Beijing Olympics has been pushed again a day due to sturdy winds.

The combined workforce parallel occasion was rescheduled from Saturday to Sunday, the final day of the Winter Video games. It should begin at 9 a.m. Beijing time.

It was supposed to start out Saturday morning and was delayed twice due to gusts of as much as about 40 mph (65 kph) earlier than it was scrapped for the day.

The final Alpine snowboarding race of the Beijing Olympics is not going to be held as deliberate due to sturdy winds. A call has not but been made about whether or not to reschedule the occasion.

The workforce occasion was imagined to be held Saturday, however wind gusts at as much as about 40 mph (65 kph) led to the announcement of two one-hour delays. The Winter Video games finish Sunday.

Organizers ultimately mentioned the race wouldn’t be held Saturday.

A gathering was being held “to debate the potential rescheduling of the occasion.”

Nico Porteous of New Zealand overcame the swirling wind to win the Olympic ski halfpipe remaining on a day when many skiers couldn’t land their finest methods because of the sturdy gusts.

Porteous scored a 93 in his opening run on a bitterly chilly and breezy morning within the final occasion on the Genting Snow Park. His rating held up in powerful situations the place skiers struggled to hyperlink huge air and spins.

Two-time Olympic champion David Clever took dwelling the silver together with his first-run rating of 90.75. The 31-year-old Clever was the one winner the lads’s occasion had ever identified. He took the title at its Olympic debut in 2014 and once more in 2018. Alex Ferreira of the USA threw down a powerful first run, twirling his proper ski pole on the backside in elation, to finish up with the bronze.

The final competitor to go, Aaron Blunck, crashed into the wall of the halfpipe whereas making an attempt to land a trick within the gusty situations. He stayed down for a second earlier than sitting up.

Wind gusts of as much as about 40 mph (65 kph) are pushing again the beginning of the final Alpine snowboarding race of the Beijing Olympics.

The beginning of the workforce occasion has been delayed twice Saturday for a complete of two hours and now is not going to start earlier than midday native time.

The blue and crimson gate flags are whipping within the wind alongside the race course often known as “Ice River” on the Nationwide Alpine Snowboarding Middle in Yanqing zone.

Nico Porteous of New Zealand grabbed the lead after the primary run within the males’s ski halfpipe remaining on a difficult day to throw methods resulting from swirling wind.

Porteous scored a 93 because of back-to-back double cork 1620s. Two-time defending Olympic champion David Clever sits in second place with a rating of 90.75 after the primary of three runs. Most of the rivals struggled with wind gusts, together with Brendan MacKay of Canada who gave the impression to be blown off line by the wind.

High qualifier Aaron Blunck known as the gusty situations “gnarly.” Though listed at 13 mph, the wind seems to be swirling in and thru the halfpipe. The wind chill hovered round minus 26 levels Fahrenheit (minus 32 levels Celsius.)

The final Alpine snowboarding race of the Beijing Olympics is being delayed due to sturdy wind.

The beginning of the workforce occasion has been pushed again an hour to 11 a.m. native time on Saturday — which is when it initially was scheduled to start earlier than a forecast of windy situations prompted organizers to attempt to get going at 10 a.m.

Gusts of about 25 mph (40 kph) are kicking up snow close to the underside of the race course often known as “Ice River” on the Nationwide Alpine Snowboarding Middle in Yanqing zone.

The temperature is zero levels Fahrenheit (minus 18 Celsius) and seems like minus 8 Fahrenheit (minus 22 Celsius).

Mikaela Shiffrin is on the roster for the USA, which faces Slovakia within the opening spherical. Different first-round matchups are Switzerland vs. China, Italy vs. Russia, Norway vs. Poland, France vs. Czech Republic, Germany vs. Sweden, and Slovenia vs. Canada.

High-ranked Austria obtained a first-round bye as a result of there are solely 15 nations within the 16-spot bracket.

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