The latest news, medal counts, schedule, photos and videos from the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022.
Phil Mickelson briefly became public enemy No. 1 -- he lost the top ranking when Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine -- for his comments about his support for the proposed Saudi-financed Super Golf League. But where was all that outrage a few weeks earlier, at the Winter Olympics?
The International Olympic Committee on Thursday condemned Russia's decision to invade Ukraine and said the country violated the Olympic Truce by doing so.
The downward trend for NBC's Olympics ratings continued during the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing.
When three-time Olympian Gus Kenworthy took the remarkable, perhaps even brave decision to speak out against "human rights atrocities" while still in China at the Winter Games, the self-proclaimed "loud and obnoxious" British skier also proved that other athletes, had they chosen, perhaps could have used their Olympic platform to pipe up, too.
The terrarium of a Winter Games that has been Beijing 2022 came to its end Sunday, capping an unprecedented Asian Olympic trifecta and sending the planet's most global sporting event off to the West for the foreseeable future, with no chance of returning to this corner of the world until at least 2030.
The judges who let Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva continue to compete at the Beijing Olympics blamed anti-doping officials in a legal document published Friday for a "failure to function effectively."
Saying the 2022 Winter Olympics have been difficult for Mikaela Shiffrin would be an understatement.
The British have clinched their first medal of the Beijing Games, thanks to Bruce Mouat and the men's curling team.
Anna Shcherbakova, the overlooked world champion, delivered a clean performance in her free skate at historic Capital Indoor Stadium to win a stunning gold medal, while teammate Kamila Valieva -- at the center of the latest Russian doping controversy -- tumbled out of the medals altogether with a mistake-filled end to her Olympic dream.
The leader of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee called the decision not to award American figure skaters the silver medal they won in the team competition an outcome that is "frankly, unfair to the athletes."
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.
Marie-Philip Poulin reminded everyone of her Captain Clutch reputation. And Canada regained its place atop the women's hockey world. It was only fitting that Poulin delivered at a time her team needed it most by scoring twice, including her third Olympic gold-medal clinching goal, in Canada's 3-2 win over the defending champion United States at the Beijing Games on Thursday.
With one bad bounce in the final minute of regulation that became the tying goal and an unsuccessful shootout, the United States is out of the men's hockey tournament at the Beijing Games after a shocking 3-2 loss to Slovakia in the quarterfinals Wednesday.
Add Nikki Haley to the list of people upset with skier Eileen Gu's decision to compete for China instead of the United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
A Russian speedskater on Tuesday displayed the most colorful -- well, off-color, actually -- celebration of the 2022 Winter Olympics thus far.
There has been no shortage of outrage surrounding the Beijing Olympics.
Choi Minjeong was a teenager competing in her first Olympics four years ago in her home country. She won two golds and began burnishing a reputation as one of South Korea's best short track speedskaters.
Innovative American freestyle skiers Alex Hall and Nick Goepper landed jaw-dropping tricks on the Secret Garden slopestyle course and won the gold and silver medals at the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday.
As a speedskating team was winning China's first Olympic gold medal of the Beijing Games, all seemed quiet in the villages that line the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau.
The enormous pressure and scrutiny on the 15-year-old Russian dynamo, who is at the center of the latest Olympic doping scandal, appeared to finally get to her Tuesday night. Despite an incredible performance by the standards of just about anyone else, Valieva could hardly hold it together while she awaited her scores.
Mike Tirico has traveled over 12,500 miles in the air over the past week and hosted two major sporting events.
Among the critics of the decision allowing Kamila Valieva to continue competing at the Beijing Winter Olympics is the father of the United States' best figure skater.
Joey Mantia is finally taking home his first medal in his third Olympics.
Russian teen sensation Kamila Valieva put aside the emotional exhaustion of being at the center of a doping scandal and took the lead in the women's figure skating competition after the short program at the Beijing Olympics.
If the International Olympic Committee had shown even a hint of a backbone when dealing with the country that ran a massive doping scheme at Sochi in 2014, there probably wouldn't have been any need for a ruling Monday clearing the way for 15-year-old phenom Kamila Valieva to go for an expected gold medal in women's figure skating with a program that now includes a positive drug test.
The biggest story of the 2022 Winter Olympics is about doping.
Russian teenager Kamila Valieva has been cleared to compete in the women's figure skating competition at the Winter Olympics despite failing a pre-Games drug test, setting her up for an attempt at a second gold medal.
Hilary Knight could think of no better way to close the Beijing Games women's hockey tournament than a rematch between the United States and - who else? - Canada with the gold medal on the line.
Figure skater Kamila Valieva testified by video at an appeal hearing that will decide if the 15-year-old Russian star can still compete at the Beijing OIympics despite an ongoing doping case.
Erin Jackson became first Black woman to win a speedskating medal at the Olympics - and it was the best color of them all. Gold.
The Ukrainian Olympic team has followed the lead of skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych in calling for peace.
For a teenager whose chances of survival were slim when he was born, just making it to the starting line at the Olympics is a miraculous achievement in itself.
At the Tokyo Olympics, mental health was the breakout star. Amplified by some of the world's top athletes, it shook up those Games and made everyone take notice.
Did Canadian slopestyler Max Parrot grab his knee or his board during his Olympic gold-medal run?
A Ukrainian skeleton athlete flashed a small sign that read " No War in Ukraine " to the cameras as he finished a run at the Beijing Olympics on Friday night, a plea for peace at a time of rising tensions between his country and Russia.
Her mom and dad wanted a name that stood out. A strong name.
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's right to compete in the women's event at the Beijing Olympics will be decided at an urgent hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Shaun White's brilliant and transcendent Olympic career is over. It ended with a fall on his final run down the halfpipe, a heartfelt ovation from the crowd and then a tearful farewell to a sport he helped define.
Nils van der Poel spoke his mind, then got back to racing.
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics have seen plenty of crashes already on both the snow and ice, but the most spectacular wipeout of all may be the games themselves.
Freestyle skier Ashley Caldwell always shared the same piece of advice to athletes: Don't date your teammates. So naturally, the four-time Olympian and Virginia native did the opposite. For the last three years, she's been in a relationship with fellow freestyle skier and Olympian Justin Schoenefeld.
The Olympic gold medals are starting to pour in for the United States.
Irene Schouten already had a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, so she was nice and relaxed for her next race.
Ashley Caldwell thinks of Christopher Lillis as family, and Justin Schoenefeld as something even more.
U.S. bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor has, finally, made it to the Olympic track.
Nathan Chen soared effortlessly and nearly perfectly five times during his "Rocketman" performance.
The U.S. men's curling team isn't dwelling on the last time it played Sweden at the Olympics.
Snowboarder Chloe Kim turned in a strong opening run -- one of her best top-to-bottom performances ever -- as she easily defended her Olympic halfpipe title on Thursday.
It took five days for the United States to win its first gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics, but it was well worth the wait.
Relations with China already were proving a delicate and divisive issue in the run-up to South Korea's too-close-to-call presidential elections just a month away. And that was before "Speedskatergate."
NBC can breathe a sigh of relief as Shaun White has reached the final of the halfpipe.
The referee came out to measure, and the Russians came away with the game-tying point in the final end of regulation against the Americans - the reigning Olympic curling champions.
NBC seemed determined to document every single one of Mikaela Shiffrin's tears, to the point of failing to even show the next few skiers that took to the treacherous course known as Ice River. In a different era, AKA before last summer, this sort of coverage would have been accepted, almost expected. But times have changed since Simone Biles bared her mental-health issues to the world at the Tokyo Games, and other athletes have followed her lead.
Good thing South Korea didn't pack up its skates and go home.
Lindsey Jacobellis is finally an Olympic gold medalist.
Hilary Knight would like to have a word with one of her former coaches, who placed an emphasis on getting shots on net.
One of the most viral moments of the 2022 Winter Olympics thus far has involved discussion about cooling towers and a steel mill.
Nathan Chen, 22, received the highest score in the history of men's short program figure skating -- not just at the Olympics, but in any event ever.
As Ryan Cochran-Siegle set off at around noon Tuesday for a super-G run that would earn a silver at the Beijing Games, it was around 11 p.m. Monday night back home in Starksboro, Vermont. So his mother, Barbara Ann Cochran settled into bed to keep tabs on her laptop on how her son would fare. Mom, you see, came from the "Skiing Cochrans" family of Olympians, and was the slalom champion at the 1972 Sapporo Games.
China has ordered inhabitants of the southern city of Baise to stay home and suspended transportation links amid a surge in COVID-19 cases at least partly linked to the omicron variant.
