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BEIJING — When a freestyle skier at Big Air Shougang tugged off his goggles last week and tossed them into the crowd, cleaners dressed in full hazmat gear converged on the section.

BEIJING (AP) — The British have clinched their first medal of the Beijing Games, thanks to Bruce Mouat and the men's curling team.

BEIJING (AP) — From the cosmopolitan fashion of Milan to the Alpine chic of Cortina d’Ampezzo, the next Winter Olympics are being promoted as a feast of culture, cuisine and — obviously — sports.

BEIJING — Kamila Valieva struck her final pose, then waved one hand in disgust. Her face crumpled in misery.

BEIJING — As the penultimate day of the Games, Saturday at the 2022 Winter Olympics is a busy one. Of interest to Canadians will be the men’s freestyle skiing halfpipe event and the speedskating mass start.

BEIJING — The members of the Canadian women's curling team huddled in the far corner of the Ice Cube on Thursday for a long half-hour wait to learn their Olympic fate.

BEIJING — Who else but Marie-Philip Poulin? The big-time performer who has made a career of thriving on hockey's biggest stages did it again Thursday in Beijing, helping Canada reclaim Olympic women's hockey gold against its arch rival.

BEIJING — POWERED BY POULIN It's any young hockey player's dream to score an Olympic gold-medal-winning goal for their country. Marie-Philip Poulin has now done it three times. The 30-year-old from Beauceville, Que.

ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Freestyle skier Jon Sallinen's first run in Olympic halfpipe qualifying Thursday wasn't picture perfect. He drifted out of the halfpipe and collided with a cameraman.

BEIJING (AP) — A figure skater framed only by ragged ice gazes up, almost beseechingly. A goaltender sprawls inside a net, defeat written all over his limbs, even with his face obscured.