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Feb 17, 2022, 6 tweets

#BREAKING Mikaela Shiffrin crashes out of Olympic combined

#UPDATE Mikaela Shiffrin will leave the Beijing Games without an individual medal after dramatically crashing out of the slalom section of the alpine combined event.

It was a third failure to finish in China for the fancied two-time Olympic gold medallist

#BREAKING Canada defeat USA 3-2 to win women's ice hockey Olympic gold

#BREAKING Switzerland's Michelle Gisin retains Olympic combined title

#UPDATE Canada beat rivals the USA 3-2 to win women’s Olympic hockey gold, avenging an emotional loss in the final four years ago and capping a dominant run in Beijing.

Canada led 3-0 in the second period and held on to win the country’s fifth Olympic gold

#UPDATE Switzerland's Michelle Gisin produced a dominant slalom run to retain her Olympic alpine combined title as Mikaela Shiffrin failed to finish.

Gisin, sitting 12th fastest after the downhill, turned on the afterburners in the slalom to clock combined total of 2min 25.67sec

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