Karen Chen 2022 Winter Olympics – Credit: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Karen Chen finished up her free skate and put her hands to her head. Her Olympics were over, and she knew it wasn’t good enough. Four years of buildup, of ...
USA Gold – Credit: Getty Memorable Goodbye(s?) Let’s start, as you might not usually do, with two big-time goodbyes. If Shaun White didn’t invent snowboard hype, he most certainly reinvented it. With apologies to Ross Powers and Karine Ruby, White’s arrival atop the podium in ...
Trusova and Shcherbakova stand on podium – Credit: Getty Images In a bizarre and memorable turn of events, Anna Shcherbakova won the women’s figure skating Olympic title while Kamila Valieva placed fourth. Shcherbakova is joined by silver medalist Aleksandra Trusova and Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto. The 15-year-old Valieva, ...
Liu lands a jump – Credit: Getty Images A woman had never landed a quadruple jump at the Olympics until Feb. 7, 2022. Ten days later, we could see as many as 10 quads in the women’s free skate at ...
Team USA plays Canada in hockey – Credit: USA TODAY Sports Each and every day of the 2022 Winter Games, NBCOlympics.com will keep you updated overnight with the biggest stories from across the competition landscape. This article will be refreshed ...
Kamila Valieva looks on – Credit: Getty Images Many questions remain in women’s figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics, including: Will Kamila Valieva remain in first place? How many quadruple jumps will we see from Valieva and her Russian ...
Zagitova on 2018 Olympic rink in red dress – Credit: Getty Images Would raising the minimum age in figure skating prevent another Kamila Valieva situation in the future? It would not directly deal with the issue of doping that is ...
Kamila Valieva skates during the figure skating women singles short program – Credit: Getty Images At a few minutes before 9 a.m. ET Tuesday, 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva whispered onto the ice at the Capital Indoor Stadium (where ...
Valieva looks up toward the sky – Credit: Getty Images How do you watch with any pleasure an Olympic event in which the International Olympic Committee has all but called one of the competitors a pariah? Not just any competitor, ...
Kamila Valieva poses with both arms out – Credit: Getty Images Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto is doing her best to get in the way of what was long expected to be a historic podium sweep by the Russian Olympic Committee women’s figure skaters ...