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#BREAKING China's Eileen Gu wins Olympic freeski Big Air gold

#UPDATE Home favourite Eileen Gu wins a spectacular gold for China at the Beijing Olympics.

The Californian-born 18-year-old won the inaugural women's freeski Big Air title

#BREAKING Austria's Matthias Mayer wins men's Olympic super-G

#UPDATE Austrian Matthias Mayer has defended his Olympic super-G title to make history as the first male alpine skier to win gold medals in three consecutive Games.

Mayer won his first super-G title in Pyeongchang in 2018 and also won downhill gold at the 2014 Sochi Olympics

Olympics 2022: alpine skiing factfile

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Olympics 2022: freestyle skiing factfile

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@AFP’s Daniel Mihailescu photographs the women's skeleton training at the Yanqing National Sliding Centre during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games

Nathan Chen smashes world record held by his rival Yuzuru Hanyu as the Japanese two-time reigning Olympic figure skating champion makes an uncharacteristically shaky start to his title defence

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Dual winter sports champion Ester Ledecka successfully defended her snowboard parallel giant slalom title at the #Beijing2022 #WinterOlympics -- even if she did not immediately realise it
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#UPDATE Japanese figure skating icon Yuzuru Hanyu was "shocked" after making a shaky start to the defence of his Olympic crown, while Californian-born teenage freestyle skier Eileen Gu won a thrilling gold for China at #Beijing2022
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🌏 Today at #Beijing2022
🏅🎿 Japanese figure skating icon Yuzuru Hanyu was "shocked" after making a shaky start to the defence of his Olympic crown while Californian-born teenage freestyle skier Eileen Gu won a thrilling gold for China
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