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Canada went on to claim gold with the French pair taking silver.Īmerican ski star Mikaela Shiffrin started her quest for multiple gold medals with a bang by winning the giant slalom but quickly hit a wall in the slalom where she was defending the Olympic title she won in Sochi.
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The pair bravely skated on but she left the ice sobbing. The mishap happened when she leaned backwards early on in the routine and Cizeron inadvertently unclipped the back of her costume, briefly exposing her breast. Gold-medal contender Gabriella Papadakis was left in tears after an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction cost her and ice dance partner Guillaume Cizeron the Olympic title. When his score flashed up White hurled his board away and celebrated with abandon, having finally exorcised the demons from his failure to win a medal in Sochi. Asked serious questions by Japan's Ayumu Hirano, White went for broke on the final run and was a hair's breadth from a nasty wipeout on every one of his high-risk tricks.
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Snowboarding legend Shaun White produced a jaw-dropping final run to win his third Olympic halfpipe title in one of the clutch performances of the Games. And as a final twist, he stripped off and greased himself up again for the closing ceremony. In an added bonus he also avoided the wooden spoon in the 15km freestyle cross country, finishing 114th - almost 23 minutes behind the gold medallist. Glistening in coconut oil and dressed in only a traditional ta'ovala mat around his waist the 34-year-old beefcake once more set social media ablaze. When he did it again as temperatures plunged to minus-20 at the Pyeongchang opening many thought he was quite mad. Tongan hunk Pita Taufatofua raised pulses when he peeled off for the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics. The 22-year-old adrenaline junkie, who has been christened a "miracle on snow" by Czech media, completed a historic double when, as expected, she won snowboard's parallel giant slalom to become the first woman to win gold medals in different sports at the same Winter Games. If Chloe Kim was week one's pin-up girl, Czech snowboarder Ester Ledecka quickly became the story with her astonishing alpine skiing gold in the super-G. Full-on Chloe-mania and, for a few days at least, the American Kim was the face of the Games. Chloe Kim, the 17-year-old snowboarding phenom with Korean parents who shreds to Lady Gaga tracks, melted hearts as she swept to halfpipe gold, roared on by locals chanting her name. Still pining after the retirement of figure skate queen Kim Yuna, South Koreans adopted a new sporting superstar at the Pyeongchang Games - the only catch being she's American.
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Decked out in red tracksuits and woolly bobble hats, they clapped and chanted in perfect unison and serenaded besotted local fans with tender love songs watched closely by North Korean minders - while North Korea's athletes battled gamely, generally at the back of the field. In line with an apparent thaw in inter-Korean relations and as part of a charm offensive from the North, Pyongyang despatched its famed, 200-strong "army of beauties" cheerleaders on the Winter Games. And gay freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy said it was a moment that he "never dreamed" possible as a child after he was filmed kissing his partner on live television at the Olympics. Radford was not the only openly gay competitor in the team event, with bronze medallists the USA featuring 28-year-old Adam Rippon. The 23-year-old's army of fans have taken to greeting every performance by showering him with his favourite bear, and they did not disappoint - although for reasons related to sponsors' rights, Hanyu was unable to take his favoured Winnie The Pooh tissue box with him into the "kiss and cry" area.Įric Radford said "he might explode with pride" after he became the first openly gay man to win Winter Games gold in the team figure skating event with Canada. A blizzard of Winnie the Pooh soft toys rained down on the Gangneung Ice Arena after Yuzuru Hanyu's breathtaking winning performance in the men's figure skating.