Three days after Lindsey Jacobellis became the oldest U.S. Olympian at age 36 to win a gold medal—in snowboard cross—she won her second in the new mixed snowboard cross team event. The Feb. 12 victory moved her to the second-oldest American gold medal winner as her teammate is 40-year-old Nick Baumgartner. Jacobellis is from Roxbury,…
Oldest American Olympians Jacobellis, Baumgartner Win Olympic Gold in Team Snowboard Cross
Longtime US Teammates Win Mixed Snowboardcross at Olympics
ZHANGJIAKOU, China—The running joke was American snowboardcross racer Nick Baumgartner always referring to them as a pair of 40-somethings. “I’m 36,” Lindsey Jacobellis playfully corrected time after time in interview after interview. For these two, and all their vast experience, age proved to be one thing—golden. Jacobellis won her second title of the Beijing Olympics,…
Coach Defends Skater Valieva, CAS to Hold Sunday Hearing on Case
February 12, 2022
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BEIJING—The Russian coach of the 15-year-old figure skater embroiled in an Olympic doping scandal broke her silence to defend Kamila Valieva on Saturday, while the sport’s highest court said it would hold a hearing on Valieva’s Winter Games future on Sunday. Coach Eteri Tutberidze said she was certain Valieva was “clean and innocent” in an…
Shiffrin Relieved to Finish Olympic Race; 9th in Super-G
BEIJING—Laying in bed ahead of her third race of the Beijing Olympics, Mikaela Shiffrin could not stop dreaming about what awaited, envisioning a sequence that unfolded like her initial two over-in-a-blink events. “Just repetitive. The whole night long. And I kept kind of waking up from it and then going back to sleep. And it…
China’s Foreign-Sourced Ice Hockey Team Suffer Crushing Defeat to US on Olympic Debut
February 11, 2022
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China had put its Olympic hockey hopes on a team composed of mostly foreign-born players. But reality hit hard on their debut. On Thursday night before 1,000 spectators, the Chinese hockey squad, packed with foreign-born recruits from the United States and Canada, was beaten 8-0 by a fresh-faced U.S. team. For some, the outcome was…
China’s Foreign-Sourced Ice Hockey Team Suffers Crushing Defeat to US on Olympic Debut
February 11, 2022
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China had put its Olympic hockey hopes on a team composed of mostly foreign-born players. But reality hit hard on their debut. On Thursday night before 1,000 spectators, the Chinese hockey squad, packed with foreign-born recruits from the United States and Canada, was beaten 8-0 by a fresh-faced U.S. team. For some, the outcome was…
Emotional Shaun White Ends Epic Career in Fifth Olympics
Shaun White took his helmet off and waved to the cheering crowd following his third and final run of his Olympic career Friday, Feb. 11, at the Beijing Olympics; finishing fourth in the snowboarding half-pipe event at the Genting Snow Park. The five-time Olympian has become synonymous with the sport and is considered the greatest of all…
Russian Skater Valieva Failed Drug Test, Olympics Fate to Be Decided by Urgent Hearing
February 11, 2022
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BEIJING—Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s right to compete in the women’s event at the Beijing Olympics will be decided at an urgent hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The International Testing Agency (ITA)—on behalf of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)—said Friday it would fight a decision by Russia’s anti-doping agency to allow…
Why Are America’s Athletes Defecting to China? Red China’s Hidden Olympic Agenda
February 10, 2022
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For this special two-part edition of The Wide Angle, I’m joined by China economics professor Antonio Graceffo—a graduate of the Shanghai University of Sport. I garner his insights into two pivotal U.S.-China issues: American-born athletes starring on the China Olympic team; and China’s startling high-volume investment in U.S. biopharm and genomics companies. While seemingly unrelated,…
‘Communism Is Cancer’: Senator Says Americans Must ‘Fight Hard’ Against Communist China’s Influence
February 10, 2022
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Communist China is reshaping the world according to its own agenda. And Americans need to act if they don’t want their cherished freedoms taken away, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) told a panel event in Washington on Feb. 10. “We cannot allow Xi’s influence to spread, because communism is a cancer,” he said, referring to Chinese…
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