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Feb 21, 2022, 8 tweets

In photos: Here are the golden moments from the Beijing Winter #Olympics2022

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Feb. 4: Team Canada arrives at the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The ceremony, directed by Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, who kept things relatively short compared with the 2008 festivities in Beijing. tgam.ca/3I55IKF

Feb. 7: Canada's Max Parrot and Mark McMorris celebrate after winning gold and bronze, respectively, in men's slopestyle snowboarding. It was the second straight Olympics where the two would share the podium in that event. tgam.ca/3I55IKF

Feb. 13: This weekend featured the first real snow at the Games, which relied mostly on machine-made snow – a controversial precedent that has some sports experts worried about the Olympics' future in a changing climate. tgam.ca/3I55IKF

Feb. 15: Speed skaters Isabelle Weidemann, left, Valérie Maltais and Ivanie Blondin of Canada celebrate after winning gold and setting an Olympic record. tgam.ca/3I55IKF

Feb. 16: Canadian speed skater Charles Hamelin, right reacts with teammate Jordan Pierre-Gilles, middle, after winning gold in the men's 5,000-metre short-track relay. tgam.ca/3I55IKF

Feb. 17: The Canadian women's hockey team celebrates with gold medals after beating the United States 3-2. It was something of a rematch of 2018's final in Pyeongchang, which the Americans won. tgam.ca/3I55IKF

Feb. 20: Triple medal winner Isabelle Weidemann leads Canada in the parade of athletes as flag-bearer for the closing ceremony in Beijing. tgam.ca/3I55IKF

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