Winter Olympics: highs, lows, heroes and villains of Beijing 2022
Our writers pick their best moments, from Alexandra Trusova’s extraordinary rant to Erin Jackson’s groundbreaking gold
‘Perfect performance’: Team GB finally win first Beijing gold in women’s curling
Eve Muirhead’s team dominated their final against Japan from the start to end an overall disappointing Winter Olympics on a high
Team GB feel ‘sting’ of lost gold after Sweden edge tense men’s curling final
Great Britain’s first medal in Beijing was only a silver after Bruce Mouat’s team lost their Olympic men’s curling final 5-4 to Sweden in an extra end
Jackson and Meyers Taylor have made history in Beijing for Black Americans
Medals in speed skating and monobob raise hopes that more young athletes of color will thrive in winter sports
Great Britain to take silver medal at least after men’s curling team reach final
Bruce Mouat said his victory scream ‘was a release of tension and pressure’ after Great Britain reached the gold medal match in the men’s curling with an 8-4 victory against the USA
Team GB’s Hall and Gleeson crash in two-man bobsleigh at Winter Olympics
Brad Hall and Nick Gleeson crashed on their penultimate run of the two-man bobsleigh in Yanqing as Great Britain’s Winter Olympics nightmare continued
USA’s Erin Jackson becomes first Black woman to win individual Winter Olympic gold
Erin Jackson has become the first Black woman to win a speedskating medal at the Winter Olympics, and she did it with a gold
Kamila Valieva and Zhu Yi are victims in Winter Olympics’ puppet theatre of pain
Zhu Yi’s haunting yet disastrous skate was the most heartbreaking story of the Beijing Games until Kamila Valieva’s failed drugs test
Figure skating medal ceremony cancelled due to positive doping result
The Winter Olympics medal ceremony for the figure skating team event was cancelled due to a Russian skater testing positive for a substance
Biles and Vonn rally around Shiffrin after latest Winter Olympics DQ
Simone Biles and Lindsey Vonn among US sports stars rushing to support Mikaela Shiffrin after the American star’s nightmarish Games start
A gold at last! Jacobellis breaks US duck in redemption story for ages
Lindsey Jacobellis won the United States’ first title at the Beijing Olympics, with her women’s snowboard cross gold medal helping to erase the pain of an agonising mishap 16 years ago
Eileen Gu’s late brilliance wins home Olympic gold for China in women’s big air
China’s Eileen Gu earned the first of what she hopes will be three gold medals at the Beijing Olympics
Shiffrin’s early exit paves way for Hector to take Olympic giant slalom crown
Defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin missed a gate early in the first run of the giant slalom with Sara Hector profiting from the disqualification to take gold
Australia’s curlers get Winter Olympics reprieve despite positive Covid tests
Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt were preparing to fly home but will now compete after being cleared by a medical expert panel
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott wins New Zealand’s first ever Winter Olympic gold
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott captured New Zealand’s first gold medal in Winter Olympic history, stomping down a pressure run on her last trip down the mountain