2022 WINTER OLYMPICS

Eileen Gu won two gold medals for China in freestyle skiing at the recent Beijing Olympics.

No 15-year-old figure skaters will be allowed to compete at the 2026 Olympics following the controversy surrounding Russian national champion Kamila Valieva at this year’s Beijing Games.

The HUB Stadium will also include a restaurant and bar

The Beijing Winter Olympics closed just over two months ago and the focus now turns to awarding a host city for the 2030 Winter Games.

When Stars on Ice, uh, hits the ice Friday night in Estero, Florida, it will be for the first time in two years.

Olympic figure skating champion Nathan Chen withdrew from the world championships on Wednesday because of what he called a “nagging injury” that he’s been dealing with after winning at the Beijing Games.

A cybersecurity firm says hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government broke into the computer networks of at least six state governments in the United States in the last year.

Athletes around the world cheered when leaders of the Paralympics booted Russia from the Games.

Dmytro Pidruchnyi was competing at the Winter Olympics in Ukraine’s national colors less than two weeks ago.

Russian skiers are not welcome to compete in Norway.

The International Olympic Committee has urged sports bodies to cancel or move all events they plan to hold in Russia and Belarus and stop using the countries’ flags and national anthems.

A Swedish speedskater who won double Olympic gold earlier this month in Beijing, has given one of his medals to a Swedish publisher detained in China.

NBC will be happy to put the Beijing Winter Olympics in the rear-view mirror, as the event had a record low viewership for an American audience and the Olympics.

The Olympics have said goodbye to Asia after a star-crossed run, and it’s unclear when they’ll be back after the continent hosted four of the last eight Games.

At the Beijing Capital International Airport, the body language tells the story.

They did it — that much seems obvious.

Warnings to use disposable “burner” phones and laptops.

Take a look back at the biggest stories from all 15 sports at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

Philip Hersh recounts the figure skating action from the 2022 Winter Olympics, both on and off the ice.

Beijing's 2022 Winter Olympics came to an end Sunday, sending the planet's most global sporting event off to the West for the foreseeable future.

Germany continued its sliding sport dominance with its first golds in men's and women's skeleton. Relive skeleton at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Relive a memorable edition of Nordic Combined at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

The U.S. finished the 2022 Winter Olympics with 24 medals, behind Norway, ROC, Germany, and Canada.

Nathan Chen's gold returned the U.S. to the men's Olympic figure skating podium, but it was ROC that headlined the sport's conversations.

The Closing Ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics on NBC and Peacock, as it happened via live updates and video.

With all 109 medal events decided, competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing is officially complete. And after three weeks of dominance, Norway once again claimed the top spot on the final medal table.

The Netherlands earned the most speed skating medals at the 2022 Winter Olympics, and American Erin Jackson made history as the first Black gold medalist.

A pile of figure-skating rubble created by Russian misbehavior.

An early look at who could be back for the 2026 Milano Cortina Games.

Take a look at some of the best wardrobes seen at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

A look at the top curling moments from the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Taiwan’s premier has called for a Taiwanese speed skater to be punished for wearing a suit from rival China’s team ahead of the Beijing Olympics.

Some figure skaters are hoping an Olympic doping scandal that is fueling a push to raise the minimum age of competitors will also focus attention on what they see as the sport’s most pressing issue: body image, body shaming and disordered eating.

The Olympic figure skating program at the Beijing Games probably won't be remembered for the soaring performances of American gold medalist Nathan Chen, French ice dancers Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron or the Chinese pairs team of Sui Wenjing and Han Cong.

When NBC set a long-term deal to carry the Olympics through 2032, it seemed like a savvy deal.

Results, updates and news from Day 16 of competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics on Sunday, February 20.

U.S. cross-country skiing star Jessie Diggins rewrote history at the 2022 Winter Olympics going up against some of the biggest names in skiing like Jonna Sundling of Sweden and Therese Johaug of Norway. The women's 30km mass start free closed the curtain on the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Figure skating needed a little brightness after the gloom of the women’s singles competition, with its doping cloud and its tornadic climax. Sui Wenjing and Han Cong of China delivered.

No Olympic competition is complete without a few handfuls of historical moments. Re-live all the record-breaking performances from the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Team USA was back on the podium in a big way after a rare day without medals, upping their 2022 Winter Olympics haul to 24 and surpassing their total from the 2018 Games.

Watch 40 of the world's best skaters perform without the pressure.

Sui Wenjing and Han Cong captured the Olympic gold medal that eluded them by a razor-thin margin four years ago.

Here are this morning's top stories.

Sui and Han avenged their 2018 Olympic performance when they missed the gold by 0.43 points.

The team is requesting the Court of Arbitration for Sport rule so its skaters can receive their medals while they await the results of a wider investigation into the Kamila Valieva doping scandal

Jessie Diggins seeks her second individual medal in the 30km freestyle mass start and described her recipe for maintaining an upbeat demeanor while competing at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Authorities in China said they planted nearly 200,000 acres of forest and green areas prior to the Winter Games. But they also transplanted nearly 20,000 trees, which could endanger animal habitats.

Journalists who spent weeks of reporting on the Beijing Olympics while hermetically sealed inside the “closed-loop” system will leave with an incomplete picture of what reporting in China entails.

A longtime rivalry between Sui/Han and Tarasova/Morozov came to a head after 0.16 points separated them in the short.

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee says it spoke to the men's hockey team after members were involved in a noisy late-night party at the athletes village.

Arbitrators have rejected a last-ditch request by American figure skaters to have their silver medals awarded before the end of the Olympics.

Whether it’s a sidelining injury or loss on the world stage, Olympic athletes know what it’s like to suffer major setbacks — and to bounce back.

Three athletes who compete in multiple Olympic sports join The Podium to discuss how they manage to shift gears, and whether it's worth it.

Irene Schouten of the Netherlands won the women's mass start final to earn her fourth medal of the 2022 Winter Olympics.

It’s all about the money, money, money!

Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Hareskevych said he was still hopeful that a Russian invasion could be avoided, but the atmosphere is tense.

This is gold medalist Kaillie Humphries first medal for the U.S. The champion previously won gold and bronze medals for her home country of Canada.

Witt said Valieva is "not to blame" for the failed drug test and said the 15-year-old "probably followed her coach and medical team."

Food at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing is far from the quality athletes desire, but there is a lot of Chinese beer, according to reports.

FILE - Glenn de Blois, of the Netherlands, from left, Nick Baumgartner of the United States, and Jakob Dusek of Austria compete during a semifinal of men's snowboard cross at the FIS Snowboard Cross World Cup, a test event for the 2022 Winter Olympics, at the Genting Resort Secret Garden in Zhangjiakou in northern China's Hebei Province, Nov. 28, 2021. On Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, Baumgartner, 40, will kick off action at his fourth Olympics. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)AP

Bitter cold and brutal winds in Beijing are forcing the world's top athletes to get creative ahead of the biggest moments of their Olympic careers.

Team USA is still vying for its first gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. Jamie Yuccas has the latest.

Five athletes and team officials tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday.

Wandering inside the Beijing 2022 Olympics bubble feels like "The Truman Show," where passion, drama, joy and failure play out in a highly stylized limbo designed never to collide with the real world.

Beijing Olympic officials said the COVID-19 situation within the closed-loop bubble of the Games is tightly managed now. They may add more spectators to venues as the competitions continue.

The race is on to snap up scarce 2022 Winter Olympic souvenirs, especially stuffed versions of Games mascot Bing Dwen Dwen, a panda in a winter coat. (Feb. 07)

The U.S. earned the silver, thanks largely to a winning dance program from Madison Chock and Evan Bates.

Referees postponed the Men's Downhill alpine ski event after officials decided high winds at the Yanqing course posed a safety risk. This comes after multiple days of practice cancellations.

The teenager laced up for the first time at 5 years old. Now she's going for gold at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

The Winter Games kicked off Friday night in Beijing with an eye-catching but scaled-back opening ceremony. China has made history as the first country to host both the Summer and Winter Games.

The U.S. Biathlon team has never won an Olympic medal — the only U.S. athletes not to do so. New innovations may lead to a medal finish in the combined cross-country skiing and target shooting event.

It's been a long road to the 2022 Winter Olympics — no one knows that better than the athletes and supporters attending the Games.

Star U.S. bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor, a three-time Olympic medalist, said she tested positive for coronavirus​ inside Beijing's Olympic bubble.

Two days before the opening ceremony in Beijing, U.S. curlers Vicky Persinger and Chris Plys face an Australian pair in a mixed doubles match that was nearly upended by the COVID pandemic.

In 1991, a 60 Minutes investigation in China found products sold in the U.S. were manufactured by Chinese prisoners inside a forced labor camp.

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American Rock Stars premieres today, January 26th, on Peacock. American Rock Stars takes viewers behind the scenes as captain John Shuster and team members Matt Hamilton, Chris Plys, and John Landsteiner brace themselves for the trials. Narrated by Nick Offerman, American Rock Stars offers an in-depth look at an Olympic team hoping to take home the gold this winter. Where to watch:You can stream American Rock Stars with a Peacock subscription. American Rock Stars will premiere on January 26th.” -Peacock on YouTube

The decision denies many Detroit Red Wings with the opportunity to play in their first Olympics. The NHL will reschedule postponed games during the Feb. 6-22 window that originally was reserved for the Olympic break. The Red Wings have had two games postponed thus far – this past Monday at home against Colorado and Thursday at Minnesota. NHL Players Association executive director Don Fehr said in a statement: “Since the CBA extension was reached 17 months ago, NHL players have looked forward with great anticipation to once again participating in the Winter Olympics. We expect that NHL players will return to the Olympics in 2026.”More: Red Wings COVID protocol list continues to grow

The NHL and NHL Players Association have agreed not to participate in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, according to ESPN. The league will use the February break to reschedule games postponed due to COVID-19. The league could also move games scheduled in late April into February in order to end the regular season and start the playoffs sooner. That was the case in 2018, when the NHL did not take part in the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, after sending players to every Olympics from 1998 to 2014. More: Red Wings’ COVID protocol list continues to grow

We spoke to Mikaela Shiffrin about injuries, Simone Biles, and the pressures of Olympic stardom

President Joe Biden announced last week that the United States will not send any diplomats to the 2022 Winter Olympics that will start in Beijing, China, in February. Biden is doing this to protest China’s harsh treatment of a religious group (the Uyghurs -pronounced wee-goorz) as well as China’s anti-democratic crackdown against the people of Taiwan. (Taiwan is an island that China considers to be one of its provinces.)

The Olympics boycott is due to China's "ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses," Jen Psaki said.

Florida-based Fanatics will leverage merchandise tied to past and future Olympic Games in a deal that extends until the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.

NHL players are returning to the Olympics for the first time since 2014. The league and the NHL Players Association announced Friday that they have reached an agreement with the International Ice Hockey Federation to accommodate the participation of NHL players in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. “We understand how passionately NHL Players feel about representing and competing for their countries,” NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said in a statement. This agreement allows for the possibility of a later decision to withdraw in the event evolving COVID-19 conditions are deemed by the NHL and NHLPA to render participation by NHL Players to be impractical or unsafe, the release said. More: Which Red Wings could be poised for a breakout season?

The international spectacle has become increasingly synonymous with overspending, corruption, and autocratic regimes.

As China prepares to host the Winter Olympics, its people get on skis.

Canada’s official opposition party wants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to use his time at the G7 Leaders’ Summit to take a stand against China and call for the 2022 Winter Olympics to be moved from Beijing. Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole sent the letter Friday as Trudeau is set to convene with other world leaders in the United Kingdom next week. As the leader of the host nation, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to focus the meeting on efforts to fight COVID-19 and making an economic comeback from the pandemic.

The Japanese government was quick to deny a U.S. warning for Americans to avoid traveling to Japan would have an impact on Olympians wanting to compete in the Tokyo Games.

The Japanese government Tuesday was quick to deny a U.S. warning for Americans to avoid traveling to Japan would have an impact on Olympians wanting to compete in the postponed Tokyo Games. U.S. officials cited a surge in coronavirus cases in Japan caused by virus variants that may even be risky to vaccinated people. Most metro areas in Japan are under a state of emergency and expected to remain so through mid-June because of rising serious COVID-19 cases that are putting pressure on the country's medical care systems.

The 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing are due to take place between Feb. 4 and Feb. 20.

The 2022 Winter Olympics shouldn't be held in China, Sen. Rick Scott said Tuesday, referring to the recent standoff between Beijing and the NBA as well as the Chinese regime's human rights violations. The Hong Kong protests, which have escalated over the past four months, began in response to a now-withdrawn proposed extradition bill that activists said would threaten judicial protections. "Human rights are important to us in America," the senator said. "There's no human rights over there. They're trying to take them away from China, or from Hong Kong."