National and International 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

Here are some notable quotes from the 2022 Beijing Olympics on Feb. 6, 2022. "(The Olympics) have been a real goal of mine, especially this past season, knowing that … I could quite possibly qualify.

BEIJING (AP) — Whether it's a figure skating melodrama starring Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, or years of cross-country skiing showdowns between Norway and Italy, rivalries have a way of spicing up the Winter Olympics.

ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Turkish ski jumper Fatih Arda İpcioğlu declined to say if the crescent and star on his blue skis the day before the normal hill competition at the Beijing Olympics was a statement in support of China’s Uyghur community.

BEIJING — A flummoxed Ted-Jan Bloemen wants to figure out what went wrong before his signature race in the Olympic Games.

BEIJING (AP) — The last thing Cammi Granato and her U.S. women’s hockey teammates needed to see after a 10-hour bus ride through the Maritimes was arriving at their hotel and finding the Canadians staying at the same place.

BEIJING (AP) — Nils van der Poel has run 20-something ultra-marathons. He's gone skydiving hundreds of times. He's biked from one end of Sweden to the other. He's served a year in the army, completing his ranger training.

BEIJING (AP) — The land of the long white cloud has its first gold medal in Winter Olympics history.

BEIJING (AP) — Sven Kramer’s best shots at adding to his pile of nine Olympic medals are still ahead of him in Beijing.

ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Russian athlete Alexander Bolshunov pulled away from the pack early and won the first men's cross-country skiing gold medal at the Beijing Olympics on Sunday in the 30-kilometer skiathlon.

BEIJING (AP) — Dominik Kahun does not want to think too much about the 2018 Olympics, even though it marked the pinnacle of German hockey. The pinnacle so far.