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#BREAKING USA's Chloe Kim wins snowboard halfpipe gold at Beijing Games

#UPDATE USA sensation Chloe Kim gave a snowboarding masterclass as she successfully defended her Olympic halfpipe title at the Beijing Games.

The 21-year-old’s first-run score of 94.00 points put her ahead of Spain’s Queralt Castellet on 90.25 and Japan’s Sena Tomita on 88.25

Winter Olympics 2022: snowboard events.

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#BREAKING Defending champion Hanyu falls twice in Olympic figure skating final

#UPDATE Figure skating legend Yuzuru Hanyu's defence of his Olympic title looked in deep trouble Thursday as he fell twice in the men's free skate in Beijing.

His score of 188.06 was far short of his all-time best of 212.99

Yuzuru Hanyu's defence of his Olympic title looks over after Japanese icon falls twice in final.

IOC refuses to comment on a reported doping case involving Russian Kamila Valieva.

USA's Chloe Kim blitzes opposition to retain snowboard halfpipe title

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#BREAKING Austria's Johannes Strolz wins men's Olympic alpine combined

#UPDATE Austria's Johannes Strolz bounced back from being dropped from his team to emulate his father in winning Olympic alpine combined gold on Thursday.

Strolz, sitting fourth after the opening downhill, produced the fastest slalom run to clock a combined time of 2min 31.43sec

#UPDATE Nathan Chen said "he never thought he'd be able to make it this far" as he won the #WinterOlympics figure skating gold at #Beijing2022, easily beating defending champion Yuzuru Hanyu, who fell twice and finished fourth
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