Photograph: Xinhua/ShutterstockAfter his final Olympics appearance retiring snowboarding legend Shaun White said of the younger generation: “I don’t want to beat these guys anymore. Whether she is allowed to compete or not – along with whether the Russian team can keep its team gold – is still being contested in a courtroom. Yesterday she added the 5,000m speed skating gold to her earlier 3,000m victory, 4.67 seconds ahead of Canada’s Isabelle Weidemann. “These goalies are great at this level and we really have to challenge them.”Action from the first women’s ice hockey quarter-final. The last wordKatarina Witt skating for East Germany at the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988.

Source: The Guardian February 12, 2022 08:41 UTC