❄️ 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
⛸ 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
The US government's first-ever negotiated prices for prescription drugs are still more than double on average, and in some cases five times what drugmakers have agreed in four other high-income countries 1/5 reut.rs/3AQ7gto
This is the first time Medicare, which covers more than 67 million people, has disclosed drug prices, usually hidden behind a system of rebates and discounts. The lower prices will result in savings of $6 billion in 2026 when they take effect 2/5
A Reuters review of available maximum prices set by other wealthy nations — Australia, Japan, Canada and Sweden — show they have negotiated far lower prices for the same drugs 3/5
Threats. Surveillance. Doxxing. Swatting. Here's why some Sikhs in the US and Canada fear Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is trying to silence them ⬇️ 1/6reut.rs/4fFgF78
California's first Sikh American assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains says someone took photos of her home, broke into her mailbox 2/6
Bains is pushing for legislation to give law enforcement training and tools to address harassment by foreign governments 3/6
Kamala Harris is preparing for the fight of her life, if her inner circle is anything to go by 1/9 reut.rs/3LQ8kjh
The vice president has surrounded herself with a group of tested operators, many of them Black women who have been involved in Democratic politics for decades, as she gears up for a brutal three months of campaigning before the November 5 election 2/9
US Senator Laphonza Butler of California, for one, struck a bullish tone this week when asked on MSNBC about the prospect of Harris facing a barrage of sexist and racist attacks. 'Bring it,' she said. 'Because we are not new to this' 3/9
French paramedic Seifelislam Benadda had just dropped off a patient at hospital on July 1, he said, when police informed him he was prohibited from leaving his hometown in the Paris suburbs, saying he was a potential threat to the Olympic Games 1/8 reut.rs/3WhFJrY
For the next nine days, instead of driving his ambulance, the 28-year-old checked in at the Nogent-sur-Marne police station at midday and fought to overturn the administrative measure, which alleged he posed a terrorist risk 2/8
As part of a vast security operation for the Paris Games authorities have turned to powers passed under a 2017 anti-terror law, placing 155 people under surveillance measures that strictly limit their movement and oblige them to register daily with police 3/8
Four decades ago, the United States deployed cruise and Pershing II nuclear missiles in Europe to counter Soviet SS-20s - a move that stoked Cold War tensions but led within years to a historic disarmament deal 1/10 reut.rs/3W97ZNj
'We can be proud of planting this sapling, which may one day grow into a mighty tree of peace,' Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev told US President Ronald Reagan in December 1987 as they agreed to dismantle the rival systems under a new treaty 2/10
The treaty scrapped all ground-based shorter-range and intermediate-range (INF) nuclear and conventional weapons - those with ranges between 500 km and 5,500 km 3/10
Israel intensified its bombardment of Rafah in Gaza's south and over a dozen members of one family were killed in an air strike, residents said, as the ruined Palestinian enclave's health ministry announced 29,313 deaths in the war so far 1/6 reut.rs/3wrVZgR
In Jerusalem, Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz cited 'promising early signs of progress' on a new deal to release hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza amid talks conducted by the United States, Egypt and Qatar to secure a pause in the war 2/6
The Israeli army said it had stepped up operations in Khan Younis, a city just north of Rafah. It made no mention of attacks on Rafah itself in its daily summary of events in Gaza and did not immediately respond to a request for comment 3/6