Beijing Olympics photos: Team USA’s slopestyle win, hockey loss
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Ilia Burov of Workforce ROC performs a trick on a apply run forward of the Males’s Freestyle Snowboarding Aerials Last on Day 12 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Genting Snow Park on February 16, 2022 in Zhangjiakou, China. (Picture by Cameron Spencer/Getty Photos)
Workforce Canada’s girls curlers relegated staff USA to a spherical robin in opposition to Japan in an exciting 7-6 match on Day 12 on the Olympic Video games in Beijing.
The outcomes crushed any hope that the American girls’s curling and males’s hockey groups would earn medals — the curling staff in a 10-7 loss to Japan within the spherical robin finale on Wednesday and the hockey gamers within the eliminating loss to Slovakia.
Skier Alexander Corridor spun a silver lining for Workforce USA together with his gold medal-winning efficiency within the males’s slopestyle contest although. And teammate Nick Goepper captured the second place medal, bringing Corridor and Goepper’s Olympic medal rely to 6 of 9 for the reason that occasion made its debut in 2014.
Mikaela Shiffrin’s redemptive arc continued in the meantime as she clocked the quickest time within the downhill coaching session forward of the alpine mixed occasion. Shiffrin’s document follows two early exits and lackluster ninth and 18th place finishes in her debut super-G and particular person downhill races.
Within the determine skating realm, the Bay Space’s Vincent Zhou emerged from quarantine after the Palo Alto native examined constructive for COVID-19 as Kamila Valieva’s doping saga raised questions in regards to the Olympics forgoing an age restrict for rivals.
Whereas Valieva’s age — 15-years-old — offers her additional rights as a “protected particular person” in a doping case, the Worldwide Olympic Committee’s Court docket of Arbitration for Sport determination to permit her to compete following a constructive drug take a look at offered a double normal to U.S. sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson.
Although Richardson was banned from competing on the 2020 Summer season Video games in Tokyo for a constructive marijuana take a look at, the IOC rejected her counter narrative as a “superficial similarity.” Her ban was additionally enforced by america Anti-Doping Company, whereas Valieva received an enchantment to an equal Russian authority. Valieva’s IOC case is ongoing.
See these tales and extra in our Day 12 gallery of the video games.
The total moon rises above strings of lights on the Olympic Inexperienced through the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Chris Carlson)
Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, trains on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Natacha Pisarenko)
Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, trains on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Natacha Pisarenko)
Sweden’s Hanna Oberg (L) and Italy’s Samuela Comola compete within the Biathlon Ladies’s 4x6km Relay occasion, on February 16, 2022 on the Zhangjiakou Nationwide Biathlon Centre, through the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games. (Picture by Christof Stache/AFP through Getty Photos)
Choi Min-jeong of South Korea, races within the girls’s 1500-meters last through the quick monitor speedskating competitors on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Bernat Armangue)
South Korea’s Choi Min-jeong celebrates after competing within the last A of the ladies’s 1500m quick monitor velocity skating occasion through the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games on the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing on February 16, 2022. (Picture by Manan Vatsyayana/AFP through Getty Photos)
From left, Victoria Carl, of Germany, Natalia Nepryaeva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, and Jonna Sundling, of Sweden, dash for the end through the girls’s staff dash traditional cross-country snowboarding competitors on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Aaron Favila)
Eric Frenzel, of Germany, prepares to leap throughout a nordic mixed massive hill coaching session on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Matthias Schrader)
USA’s Isabella Wright takes half within the womens alpine mixed downhill first coaching session through the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games on the Yanqing Nationwide Alpine Snowboarding Centre in Yanqing on February 16, 2022. (Picture by Joe Klamar/AFP through Getty Photos)
Residents sporting face masks to assist defend from the coronavirus pause in entrance of a poster of Bing Dwen Dwen, the Beijing Winter Olympics mascot, as they line as much as purchase 2022 Winter Olympics souvenirs in Beijing, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. (AP Picture/Andy Wong)
Silhouette of athletes through the Males’s Cross-Nation Workforce Dash Basic Semifinals on Day 12 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at The Nationwide Cross-Nation Snowboarding Centre on February 16, 2022 in Zhangjiakou, China. (Picture by Ezra Shaw/Getty Photos)
Finland’s Krista Parmakoski competes within the girls’s staff dash traditional last occasion through the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games on February 16, 2022, on the Zhangjiakou Nationwide Cross-Nation Snowboarding Centre. (Picture by Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP through Getty Photos)
Clement Noel, of France passes a gate through the first run of the boys’s slalom on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, within the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Picture/Luca Bruno)
Finland’s goaltender Harri Sateri catches the puck through the males’s play-off quarterfinal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors in opposition to Switzerland, on the Nationwide Indoor Stadium in Beijing on February 16, 2022. (Picture by Anthony Wallace/AFP through Getty Photos)
Gold medallist China’s Qi Guangpu stands on the rostrum through the venue ceremony after the freestyle snowboarding males’s aerials last through the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games on the Genting Snow Park A&M Stadium in Zhangjiakou on February 16, 2022. (Picture by Marco Bertorello/AFP through Getty Photos)
Zongyang Jia of Workforce China crashes through the Males’s Freestyle Snowboarding Aerials Last on Day 12 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Genting Snow Park on February 16, 2022 in Zhangjiakou, China. (Picture by Patrick Smith/Getty Photos)
Belarus’ Stanislau Hladchenka reacts as he competes within the freestyle snowboarding males’s aerials last through the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games on the Genting Snow Park A & M Stadium in Zhangjiakou on February 16, 2022. (Picture by Marco Bertorello/AFP through Getty Photos)
Joanne Reid of Workforce United States skis through the fourth leg of the Ladies’s Biathlon 4x6km Relay on day 12 of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at Nationwide Biathlon Centre on February 16, 2022 in Zhangjiakou, China. (Picture by Matthias Hangst/Getty Photos)
Norway’s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo crosses the end line to win the gold medal within the males’s staff dash traditional last occasion through the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games on February 16, 2022, on the Zhangjiakou Nationwide Cross-Nation Snowboarding Centre. (Picture by Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP through Getty Photos)
United States’ Andy Miele (51) leaves the ice after america misplaced to Slovakia in a males’s quarterfinal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Beijing. Slovakia received 3-2 in a shoot-out. (AP Picture/Matt Slocum)
Jennifer Jones of Workforce Canada reacts whereas competing in opposition to Workforce China through the Ladies’s Spherical Robin Session on Day 12 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games at Nationwide Aquatics Centre on February 16, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Picture by Justin Setterfield/Getty Photos)
Clement Noel, of France holds his gold as he celebrates through the medal ceremony for the boys’s slalom on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, within the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Picture/Alessandro Trovati)
A employee pulls one in all her colleagues on a sled, usually used to move bins, within the end space of the alpine ski venue on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, within the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Picture/Robert F. Bukaty)
Rosie Brennan leads a gaggle through the girls’s staff dash traditional cross-country snowboarding competitors on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Aaron Favila)
Biathletes shoot through the girls’s 4×6-kilometer relay on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Frank Augstein)
United States’ Alexander Corridor reacts through the males’s slopestyle finals on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Gregory Bull)
Gold medal winner United States’ Alexander Corridor celebrates after the boys’s slopestyle finals on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Francisco Seco)
Deedra Irwin of Workforce United States skis through the third leg of the Ladies’s Biathlon 4x6km Relay on day 12 of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at Nationwide Biathlon Centre on February 16, 2022 in Zhangjiakou, China. (Picture by Al Bello/Getty Photos)
Eric Frenzel, of Germany, speeds down the hill throughout a nordic mixed massive hill coaching session on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Matthias Schrader)
Nadezhda Sergeeva of the Russian Olympic Committee drives her 2-woman bobsled throughout a coaching warmth on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, within the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Picture/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Icicles dangle down on the facemask of a broadcast digicam operator through the males’s aerials finals on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Francisco Seco)
A safety guard sporting a face masks to assist defend from the coronavirus patrols as folks line as much as purchase 2022 Winter Olympics souvenirs in Beijing, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. (AP Picture/Andy Wong)
An official attends the nordic mixed particular person Gunderson massive hill/10k medal ceremony on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Matthias Schrader)
A singer performs forward of the medal ceremonies at Medal Plaza on February 16, 2022 in Zhangjiakou, China. (Picture by Al Bello/Getty Photos)
Skiers lie sprawled on the snow after competing within the girls’s cross-country staff dash on the Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou, China on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Occasions)
