Officials with the International Testing Agency say 15-year-old Kamila Valieva, Russia's record-breaking figure skater, tested positive for a banned heart medication in December. It's unclear why she was cleared to compete in Beijing, or whether she'll be allowed to skate in the individual events.
Shaun White finished 4th in men's halfpipe, wrapping up a storied Olympic career. He is the first — and only — snowboarder to win three Olympic gold medals.
Kelly Curtis is the first Black skeleton athlete to compete for the U.S. at the Olympics. Skeleton is a heart-racing, adrenaline-fueled event where a racer flies face-first down a frozen track — but Curtis says she loves it.
U.S. snowboarder Chloe Kim won her second gold medal in the Olympic halfpipe with a performance that put her far ahead of her competitors. She's the first woman to win multiple Olympic golds in the women's event.
The rules for Olympic ski jumpsuits are so exacting, they dictate what kind of underwear jumpers can wear, forbid jumpers from tucking their hair into their suits and specify the number and location of the suits' seams.
So when five female athletes — all of them women — were disqualified from the mixed-team ski jump over their suits, which they said they'd already been approved to wear in earlier events, they were distraught. Officials ruled their suits were too big, potentially giving them an unfair advantage.
Coaches and teams were outraged. Said the Norwegian team manager, "The sport of ski jumping has experienced one of its darker days."
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