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Feb 19, 2022, 10 tweets

❄️ Catch up on our most-read stories from the #Olympics 👇
A Polish speed skater recalled ‘crying like crazy’ in the back of an ambulance after a 3 a.m. knock on her isolation hotel room door. Here’s what happened reut.rs/3v0FK7y @julienpretotRTR @karolosgrohmann @SNkeats

🏂 One of the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics venues, the Big Air Shougang, generated a buzz on social media for its industrial look, built at the site of a former steel mill reut.rs/3gMs9ID @readkrystalhu @martinpollard21

⛸ Russian star figure skater Kamila Valieva tested positive for trimetazidine before she won the team event #gold medal. Here is what you need to know about the banned drug: reut.rs/3uMdk0Q @readkrystalhu

⛸ A tearful Zhu Yi was inconsolable after nerves and pressure got the better of the U.S.-born Chinese figure skater, whose last-place performance knocked China to fifth place from third in the Games' team event reut.rs/3s0rOZe @changran_kim @muyxu

🏒 The Canadian women's hockey team refused to take the ice for nearly an hour while awaiting the ROC's COVID test results.
Canada went on to register a routine 6-1 win after players took the ice wearing masks due to ‘safety and security concerns’ reut.rs/3JvdKwW @SNkeats

⛸ The pressure weighing on teenage figure skaters was all too evident when #silver medalist Alexandra Trusova broke down in tears before the podium ceremony after the women's single event reut.rs/33x6GR0 @gabrielletf @PariZemar

🎿 When Eileen Gu won #gold in the Big Air, sales of her ski suit surged 20-fold on JD.com.
Already Team China's most popular athlete, the fashion model and incoming Stanford student is sponsored by two dozen brands reut.rs/3uZfj2b @ParkSuAm1996

💊 The drug scandal engulfing 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva is inhumane and the adults responsible should be banned forever, skating legend Katarina Witt said reut.rs/3gZWVy0 @julienpretotRTR

🇸🇮 Slovenia won the mixed team ski jumping #gold but the big talking point of the event's first appearance at the #Olympics was a series of disqualifications that hit the favorites and meant world champions Germany failed to make the final reut.rs/3oWI23W

For all of our #Beijing2022 coverage, click here
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