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BEIJING — Two of Canada's medal hopefuls at the Beijing Olympics finished off the podium Sunday, with one coming agonizingly close and another nowhere near.

BEIJING — Canadian freestyle skier Elena Gaskell has pulled out of Monday's big air competition after suffering an injury in training. Gaskell, a medal hopeful in the event, made the announcement Sunday in an Instagram post.

ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — At the Tetonia Club in Alta, Wyoming, they clung to one simple phrase as the bedlam gained steam while their daughter, sister and friend, Jaelin Kauf, edged closer and closer to the Olympic silver medal: “Deliver the love.

BEIJING — SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO? The Australian mixed doubles curling team was heading home after one of its members tested positive for COVID-19. Then, all of a sudden, it wasn't.

BEIJING (AP) — Johannes Ludwig let all his rivals know back in November that he would be the one to beat at the Beijing Olympics. He was right.

ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Jakara Anthony doesn't watch anyone race before her. She avoids glancing at any scores, too. The approach keeps the stress away and frees her up to ski like this: to a gold medal.

BEIJING — The students schooled the teacher on Sunday in mixed doubles curling at the Beijing Games.

BEIJING (AP) — After getting a devastating morning phone call that she had tested positive for COVID-19, Tahli Gill and her Australian mixed doubles curling teammate Dean Hewitt were out of the Beijing Olympics. A few hours later, another call.

BEIJING (AP) — A roundup of gold medals from Sunday, Feb. 6, at the Beijing Games: ___ CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING MEN'S 30KM SKIATHLON Russian skier Alexander Bolshunov pulled away from the pack early to win gold in the 30-kilometer skiathlon.

ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Ryoyu Kobayashi of Japan won Olympic ski jumping gold on the normal hill on Sunday, becoming the first from his country to win the event since Yukio Kasaya in 1972.