Sports news Roundup: Olympic-Cross-country skiing-Sweden Karlsson from the ladies’ 30 km race; The Olympic superpower “Olympic power” Norway set a gold record at the Games in Beijing and more
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Olympic-Cross-country skiing-Sweden Karlsson from the ladies’ 30 km race
Frida Karlsson has not been included in Sweden’s team for Sunday’s 30 km freestyle race, the last cross-country skiing competition during the Olympics in Beijing, because she needs to take time to recover, the Swedish team said on Friday. Karlsson, who is currently sixth in the World Cup standings, has struggled to find his best form in Beijing, and collapsed after finishing fifth in the initial skiathlon race and finishing 12th in the 10 km classic.
The “superpower” of Olympic winter sports Norway set a gold record at the Games in Beijing
Norway’s Johannes Thingnes Boe won the 15 km mass start for men in biathlon and took his 15th gold medal at the Games in Beijing last Friday, a winter Olympic record achieved due to the country’s high level of professionalism across the board. With two cross-country ski races left, Norway already has victories in biathlon, ski jumping, Nordic combined, ice skating, cross-country skiing and freestyle, so no one could accuse them of being one-trick ponies.
The Kremlin does not agree with IOC President Bach’s assessment of skater Valieva
The Kremlin said on Friday that it did not agree with the Olympic chief Thomas Bach’s assessment of the events surrounding the Russian teenage skater Kamila Valieva, after the president of the International Olympic Committee knocked out her entourage. The 15-year-old skater fell to fourth place in the women’s singles competition at the Beijing Olympics when a doping scandal continued to spin, and Bach said it had been “kissed” to see Valieva collapse under pressure.
Olympic Curling-Gushue wins when the games return when Canada wins bronze in the men’s competition
Brad Gushue walked away with a medal when he returned to the Olympic stage after leading Canada to victory over the United States to win bronze in the men’s curling competition at the National Aquatics Center on Friday. Canada’s cunning style of play managed to hold back the opponents’ abundance and they sealed the victory with 8-5 after the US jumper John Shuster, the reigning Olympic champion, gave up a steal of two in the ninth end and his team fell three points behind.
Taiwan accuses China of using games to pursue “political propaganda”
The Taiwanese government reprimanded China on Friday for using the Beijing Winter Olympics to assert its sovereignty claims over the island, saying it had “cast a shadow” over the event’s peaceful spirit to spread “propaganda”. China sees autonomous Taiwan as its own territory, and it competes at the Olympics and most other international sporting events such as “Chinese Taipei” at Beijing’s insistence.
Athletics-UK was deprived of Olympic medal in 4×100 m because CAS maintains Ujah doping offense
Britain has been stripped of its Olympic silver medal in the men’s 4x100m relay in Tokyo in August last year after the Sports Court (CAS) approved Chijindu Ujah’s anti-doping offense on Friday. Ujah has been temporarily suspended since Ostarine and S-23 – both substances banned by the World Anti-Doping Organization WADA – were discovered in his A and B samples after the final.
Olympics-Bobsleigh-Germany Nolte leaves veterans in half-time of two-woman race
German Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi made it to the first two rounds of the ladies’ bob in Yanqing on Friday, with only compatriots Mariama Jamanka and Alexandra Burghardt staying within half a second of their fiery rides. It is 23-year-old Nolte’s first Olympic trip, but she showed her ability to forge ahead of competitors with at least ten medals in between, with a time of 2: 02.05 after two rides.
Olympics-Gu’s sweeping win helps China extend the medal record
Chinese “snow princess” Eileen Gus ‘dominant victory in the halfpipe at the Beijing Olympics on Friday added the country’s best gold medal ever at a winter game, where freestyle represented half of the hosts’ places on the podium. With eight golds and a total of 14 medals, China showed a huge improvement from four years ago in Pyeongchang, where they only took home one gold. With the help of Gus’ two victories, in Big Air and halfpipe, the country is on a par with the USA in third place for gold medals, with only days left of the games.
Olympic Freestyle Skiing-Switzerland takes the two best places in ski cross for men
First-time Olympian Ryan Regez from Switzerland dominated the last men’s cross-country race to win gold on Friday at the Beijing Games, while Swiss skier Alex Fiva took silver. Regez led from the start, zoomed over the technical section at the beginning of the course and pumped his long legs to get a lot of distance between himself and the rest of the herd.
Doping-Nigeria’s Okagbare suspended for 10 years by AIU for doping at the Olympics in Tokyo
The Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare has been suspended for 10 years for doping before the Olympics in Tokyo and the refusal to cooperate with the investigation, said the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on Friday, which in practice ended her career. Okagbare, who won silver in the long jump at the Beijing Games in 2008, was temporarily suspended last year after testing positive for several banned substances before the Olympics in Tokyo and later suffering from three separate anti-doping allegations.
(With input from agencies.)