ELISE CHRISTIE would rather risk Olympic heartache again than settle for a silver medal. Britain’s three-time world speed skating champion goes for gold on Tuesday morning, with the 500 metre quarter-finals, semi-finals and final all between 10am and 12.30pm. And despite being disqualified three times in Sochi four years ago, Christie will not hold back […]
CANADIAN figure skating pair Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir took home the Winter Olympic gold after toning down their routine deemed ‘too sexy’. After competing at the Canadian Skating Nationals earlier this month, the duo had to change their Moulin Rouge-inspired routine after it was believed to be too raunchy. And with Virtue’s legs wrapped around […]
DUTCH speed skater Sjinkie Knegt denies giving the middle finger AGAIN after losing the 1,500-metre final at the Winter Olympics. Eagle-eyed observers were left wondering if Knegt, 28, had subtly flipped the bird on the podium after finishing second to Lim Hyo-jun in PyeongChang. Knegt was clutching Olympic mascot, Soohorang, with his finger pointed towards the South Korean race […]
IT all got a bit frosty at the Winter Olympics as the USA and Finland women’s ice hockey teams battled it out — literally. Rosa Lindstedt and Monique Lamoureux-Morando came to blows, but the Americans had the last laugh, winning 3-1. American goalkeeper Maddie Rooney made an incredible 23 saves against the Scandinavian country, while […]
TONGA MAN Pita Taufatofua warmed up the winter Olympics opening ceremony by bearing his nation’s flag topless and greased up in -1 South Korean temperatures. The versatile muscle man represented his tiny nation at the 2016 summer games in Rio in the martial art of taekwondo. But he’s turned his hand to cross-country skiing two […]