CP – Winter Olympic afternoon advisory for Feb. 7, 2022

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BEIJING 2022: CP’S OLYMPIC COVERAGE – Day 3/4

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY – reporter Donna Spencer

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Team Canada and Team USA renew their bitter rivalry in women’s hockey action in Beijing. Both teams enter the game with perfect 3-0 records. 800 words. By Donna Spencer. Starts 11 p.m. Monday. (Photo: Ryan Remiorz, CP)

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INSIDE THE BUBBLE – reporter Joshua Clipperton

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The Beijing Games are the most restrictive Olympics yet. Media and other attendees can’t walk even a few hundred metres between venues. Daily life in Beijing, outside of the venues, can only be viewed through bus windows. “A moving fishbowl we can never get out of.” 500 words. By Joshua Clipperton. ETA 4 a.m. Tuesday. VIDEO. PHOTOS

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FIGURE SKATING – reporter Lori Ewing

Canadian figure skating champion Keegan Messing, who didn’t arrive in Beijing until Monday, will need to shake off the jet leg before the men;s short program Tuesday. 800 words. By Lori Ewing. Starts 8:15 p.m. Monday. PHOTOS

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FREESTYLE SKIING BIG AIR – reporter Gregory Strong

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Seventeen-year-old Olivia Asselin and 20-year-old Megan Oldham could make some major noise in their Olympic debuts. The two women are likely to be competing in the final of the freestyle skiing big air event Tuesday. 800 words. By Gregory Strong. Starts 9 p.m. Monday. (Photo: Paul Chiasson, CP)

ALPINE SKIING – reporter John Chidley-Hill

Canadian Jack Crawford, who finished fourth in the downhill Monday, will be looking for a podium finish in the Super-G on Tuesday. 700 words. By John Chidley-Hil. Starts 10 p.m. Monday. PHOTOS

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CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING – reporter Frederic Daigle

Canada will have four women and four men competing in the cross country skiing sprints on Tuesday. 700 words. By Frederic Daigle. Starts at 3 a.m. Tuesday. PHOTOS

Monday’s Top Stories:

Canadian Kim Boutin wins bronze in short-track speedskating

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Canadian short-track speedskater Kim Boutin’s bronze medal in the women’s 500 metres at the Beijing Olympics on Monday was her second straight in the event — but this one will be a far easier to savour. Boutin, the world record holder in the event, finished third in a time of 42.724 seconds, behind Italian great Arianna Fontana won gold in a time of 42.488 thanks to a late push past Suzanne Schulting of the Netherlands, who claimed silver in 42.559. 631 words. By Alexis Bélanger-Champagne. MOVED. PHOTO

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Canada surprises with bronze medal in mixed team ski jump

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Canada won a surprise bronze medal in the mixed team ski jumping competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics. 586 words. MOVED. PHOTO

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Snowboarder Parrot’s slopestyle gold caps four-medal day for Canada

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Snowboarder Max Parrot led the way with a golden performance as Canada rebounded from a disappointing Sunday to collect four medals at the Beijing Olympics on Monday. 1,000 words. MOVED sports. PHOTO

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Parrot wins gold, McMorris bronze in slopestyle

ZHANGJIAKOU — When Max Parrot began his 12 rounds of chemotherapy to treat Hodgkin lymphoma, he thought his career as a snowboarder was done. He put his snowboard in a closet and stopped competing in the sport he loves. Parrot won slopestyle gold at the Beijing Olympics on Monday, three years to the day that he was lying in a hospital bed in Granby, Que., undergoing treatment that would cure him of his cancer. 737 words. By John Chidley-Hill. MOVED. PHOTOS.

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Masks on for Canada-Russia women’s hockey game

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BEIJING — The odd visual of players wearing white COVID-19 masks under their hockey masks appeared in Beijing’s Olympic Games with Canada’s 6-1 win over Russia in women’s hockey Monday. Players on both teams and on-ice officials stepped onto the ice for the game wearing KN95 masks after a delay of over an hour. The teams and the International Ice Hockey Federation provided few details on the reason for the masks and the delay, but late test results were the issue. 770 words. By Donna Spencer. MOVED. PHOTO.

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Canada’s Messing finally touches down in Beijing

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BEIJING — Before he stepped off the Olympic practice rink on Monday, Keegan Messing looked up to the ceiling and breathed out what looked like a big sigh of relief. The Canadian men’s figure skating champion practised in Beijing on Monday afternoon, just five hours after landing and less than 24 hours before he’ll skate in the men’s short program. 344 words. By Lori Ewing. MOVED. PHOTO.

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Canada out of mixed doubles curling at Games

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BEIJING — Two measures were needed to confirm what Canada’s John Morris already knew on Monday morning. His team’s final stone was a whisker outside the Italian rock in a dramatic extra-end finish at the Ice Cube. With an emphatic wave from the official, it was confirmed. A second go-around locked it in. Italy had earned the decisive point for an 8-7 victory that kept Morris and Rachel Homan out of the mixed doubles curling playoff mix at the Beijing Games. 713 words. By Gregory Strong. MOVED. PHOTOS.

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Superb skate by teen Schizas highlights Canada’s fourth-place finish in team event

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BEIJING — Canadian teen Madeline Schizas reeled off jump after jump against some of the best skaters on the planet on Monday. Like she’d been doing it all her life. The 18-year-old was the star of Canada’s fourth-place squad in figure skating’s team event at the Beijing Olympics, and moments after she’d struck her final pose of her free program on Monday, powerfully pumping two satisfied fists, she insisted she’d been a bundle of nerves. No one would’ve guessed. 1,000 words. By Lori Ewing. MOVED. PHOTOS

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Feuz wins Olympic downhill, Canada’s Crawford fourth

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BEIJING— Beat Feuz finally has the one major victory missing from his overflowing collection of downhill achievements: Olympic gold. The diminutive Swiss skier mastered a tricky course that had never been raced before by the world’s best and finished a slim 0.10 seconds ahead of 41-year-old Johan Clarey of France on Monday. Clarey’s run bumped Toronto’s Jack Crawford out of a medal position. Crawford ended up fourth in one minute 42.92 seconds. 754 words. Associated Press. MOVED. PHOTOS

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Speedskater Marc Gagnon returns to the Olympics 20 years later, as a coach

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BEIJING – When Marc Gagnon announced his retirement from back in 2002, he never thought he’d pull his skates back out eight years later to become a coach — let alone return to the Olympics. But 20 years after his triumph in Salt Lake City, he’s back at the Beijing Olympics as the assistant coach of the short-track speedskating team. 650 words. By Alexis Bélanger-Champagne. MOVED. PHOTO.

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The next stop on Mason McTavish’s hockey odyssey? Playing for Canada at the Olympics

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BEIING – At 19-year-old, Mason McTavish is the youngest player and one of the brightest stars on Canada’s Olympic men’s hockey team – just the latest roster he’s appeared on in a whirlwind stretch. 800 words. By Joshua Clippers. MOVED. PHOTOS

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Canada, U.S. men’s hockey teams make most of bizarre Olympic scrimmage setting

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Canada and the United States are fierce hockey rivals — no matter the setting. Sidney Crosby, Tony Amonte, Cammi Granato, Hayley Wickenheiser and a host of others have etched their names in the struggle for continental supremacy. Monday afternoon at Beijing’s National Indoor Stadium won’t make any top-10 lists or likely even be remembered — there were no referees, a clock or a scorekeeper — but the countries’ Olympic men’s teams went just about as hard as they could in a controlled scrimmage with the tournament just around the corner. MOVED 700 words. By Joshua Clipperton. PHOTO.

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Canada’s Megan Oldham tops big air qualifier

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BEIJING — Canada’s Megan Oldham served a warning to her opponents as she finished first in qualifying in the women’s freestyle ski big air, handily booking a ticket to the final. Oldham sat in ninth after a score of 80.00 for her first run, and improved in the second with 91.25 points. 551 words. MOVED. PHOTOS

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DAILY ITEMS

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AP Olympic Digest

Here are AP’s coverage plans for Tuesday. All times are Eastern.

UPCOMING ENTERPRISE:

GIGANTIC CHINA — From the Forbidden City to the Three Gorges Dam to the capital city’s shopping malls, China has long been a nation of big, bigger and biggest. And the Olympics demonstrate that in dramatic fashion. By Stephen Wade. UPCOMING: 1,200 words by 4 p.m., photos.

OLY–CHINA-BEIJING AIR-EXPLAINER — The clear skies greeting Olympic athletes this month is a stark change from just a decade ago when the city’s notorious air pollution often made it difficult to make out nearby buildings. UPCOMING: 600 words by 12:01 a.m., photos, video.

UPCOMING EVENTS COVERAGE:

OLY–SPD-SPEEDSKATING — Speedskating medals are awarded in the men’s 1,500 meters at the Beijing Olympics. By Beth Harris. UPCOMING: 600 words, photos. Competition begins at 5:30 a.m.

OLY-BIA–MEN’S INDIVIDUAL — Norway’s Johannes Thingnes Boe, who has struggled to find his fitness this season, hopes to find his form and repeat his gold-medal performance from 2018 in Monday’s 20-kilometer individual biathlon race. By Martha Bellisle. UPCOMING: 500 words by 3:30 a.m., photos.

OLY–NOR–FLETCHER’S LAST CHANCE — American Taylor Fletcher says his fourth Olympics will be his last and he’s hoping to fare well enough in ski jumping to give him a chance to finish among the top three in a cross-country race in Nordic Combined. By Larry Lage. UPCOMING: 600 words by 3 a.m., photos.

OLY–FRE-WOMEN’S BIG AIR — Four years after Big Air made its Olympic debut with men’s and women’s snowboarding, freestyle skiers will vie for the first medals in the event for their discipline. By Jake Seiner. UPCOMING: 600 words, photos. Competition starts at 9 p.m.

OLY–SKI-MEN’S SUPER G — Austria’s Matthias Mayer is the defending Olympic champion in the men’s super-G, the second speed event in Alpine skiing at the Beijing Games. By Howard Fendrich. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos. Competition starts Scheduled to start at 10 p.m.

OLY–FIG-MEN’S SHORT — Two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu and three-time world champion Nathan Chen begin pursuit of the men’s gold medal in figure skating with their short programs at the Beijing Games. By Dave Skretta. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos. Competition starts 8:15 p.m.

TRENDING NEWS

TEN-PENG-SHUAI-SPEAKS — Nothing to see here, move on. That was the message that Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai delivered Monday in a controlled interview in Beijing that touched on sexual assault allegations she made against a former high-ranking member of China’s ruling Communist Party. Her answers – delivered in front of a Chinese Olympic official – left unanswered questions about her well-being and what exactly happened. By John Leicester. SENT: 533 words, photo. WITH: PENG-SHUAI-DISAPPEARANCES — The drama surrounding Peng Shuai is following a familiar script, in which someone who has run afoul of China’s Communist government disappears from view. SENT: 800 words, photos.

OLY-FIG-TEAM-COMPETITION-US — With poise and precision, American ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates won the discipline with a score of 129.17. That gave Team USA the maximum of 10 points and just about locked up its first silver medal in three editions of the Olympic team competition. By Sally Ho. SENT: 662 words, photos.

OLY–NBC-TIRICO — NBC prime-time Olympic host Mike Tirico will have a shorter stay in Beijing than originally planned. Tirico’s final show from Beijing will be Monday night. SENT: 238 words, photo.

OLY-DAY 2-PHOTO GALLERY — Joy on a sunny Day 2 at the Beijing Olympics. SENT: 182 words, photos.

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TOP STORIES

OLY-SKI-WOMEN’S GIANT SLALOM — Two-time Olympic gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin missed a gate early in the first run of the giant slalom at the Beijing Games. It was the first time she failed to finish a giant slalom since just before she won that race at the 2018 Olympics. By Andrew Dampf. SENT: 838 words, photos.

OLY-FIG-TEAM-COMPETITION — Kamila Valieva became the first woman to land a quad in the Olympics and her historic free skate put a stamp on the Russians’ dominant run to the gold medal in the team event at the Beijing Games. The U.S. earned silver after back-to-back bronze medals at the past two Olympics thanks largely to a winning dance program from Madison Chock and Evan Bates. By Dave Skretta. SENT: 1,029 words, photos.

OLY—INSIDE THE BUBBLE — Officially, the Beijing Olympics are taking place inside what organizers are calling “the enclosed compound activity area.” That’s the fancy way of saying “the bubble.” With hotels surrounded by chain-link fences, entrances and exits blocked off and no way of mingling with non-Olympic personnel, these games are taking place inside their own little world. By Tim Reynolds. SENT: 972 words, photos.

OLY–BIG AIR SHOUGANG — The Shougang steel mill that once billowed smoke into smoggy Beijing is sending something else skyward this week — Olympic skiers. The sprawling industrial park was shuttered in conjunction with Beijing’s efforts to clean up its image and its skies around the 2008 Games. It has since been converted to a sports and culture center, and one of its centerpieces is the Olympic Big Air jump, the first permanent, city-based venue the sport has ever had. By Jake Seiner. SENT: 852 words, photos.

OLY—BEIJING-LUNAR NEW YEAR — As China gets back to business after a muted Lunar New Year holiday that coincided with the start of the pandemic-restricted Beijing Olympic Winter Games, the feeling inside and out of the bubble in this auspicious Year of the Tiger is that festivities for the most sacred and important holiday for the country were limited and underwhelming. By Sally Ho and Ken Moritsugu. SENT: 850 words, photos.

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SNAPSHOTS AND GLIMPSES

OLY-GLIMPSES-BIG AIR-VIEWS — Canadian freestyle skier Elena Gaskell twists and bends backward to grab her ski as she takes flight off the end of a manufactured ramp covered in snow. Associated Press photographer Jae C. Hong captured her in mid-air on Sunday, framed against a wintry sky and a pair of smokestacks. By Adam Schreck. SENT: 264 words, photo.

OLY-GLIMPSES-SILHOUETTE — The snowboarder hangs, suspended upside down in the air, a shadow barely visible next to the glare of the bright sun. Associated Press photographer Francisco Seco had been looking for this shot from the moment he arrived at the men’s slopestyle competition at the Beijing Olympics. By Sarah DiLorenzo. SENT: 153 words, photo.

OLY-BEIJING-SNAPSHOT-SOUVENIR CRAZE — The race is on to snap up scarce 2022 Winter Olympics souvenirs. By Joe McDonald. SENT: 330 words, photos.

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THE ATHLETES

OLY-HKO-PLAYERS TO WATCH — Canada’s Eric Staal and Owen Power and the Czech Republic’s David Krejci are among the players to watch at the Olympics without an NHL presence. Staal and Krejci are among the Beijing Olympians who have won the Stanley Cup. By Stephen Whyno. SENT: 1,184 words, photos.

OLY-CUR-PLYS-DOUBLE DUTY — just because he made an early exit from the Olympic mixed doubles curling tournament doesn’t mean the week has been a waste for American Chris Plys. Although the second-time Olympian failed to qualify for the playoffs in the two-person, coed event in Beijing, Plys is also in the men’s field — one of a handful of curlers with a second chance at a medal. By Jimmy Golen. SENT: 792 words, photos.

OLY–LUG-THE SLIDING DOCTOR — The doctor is in (the Olympics). Meet Elsa Desmond, an actual surgeon from Ireland who’ll make her Olympic luge debut on Monday night. By Tim Reynolds. UPCOMING: 600 words by 8 a.m., photos.

OLY–LUG-US-MEN’S FUTURE — USA Luge’s Chris Mazdzer had X-rays on his aching right foot a few days ago, and the results were as he expected. It’s still broken. With that, it became official: the U.S. men’s luge team was never fully healthy at any point this season. And now an offseason of change for the men’s program is here. By Tim Reynolds. SENT: 650 words, photos.

OLY-BIA-US-BIATHLON-MEDAL — The United States has won medals in every sport at the Winter Olympics except one: biathlon. American biathlete Leif Nordgren, who has competed in the last two Winter Games, said because of that he regularly hears the question — Will this be the year? By Martha Bellisle. SENT: 533 words, photos.

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THE GAMES WE PLAY

OLY—HKW–CANADA-ROC-MASKED UP — Canadian and Russian players were required to wear masks for their Group A preliminary round game on Monday. The start of the game was delayed by an hour after Canada refused to leave its locker room. By Hockey Writer John Wawrow. UPCOMING: 600 words. photos. Game starts at 12:15 a.m.

OLY-SKI-MEN’S DOWNHILL — Beat Feuz finally has the one major victory missing from his overflowing collection of downhill achievements: Olympic gold. The diminutive Swiss skier mastered a tricky course that had never been raced before by the world’s best and finished a slim 0.10 seconds ahead of 41-year-old Johan Clarey of France on Monday. By Daniella Matar. SENT: 289 words, photos. Will be updated to 700 words, photos.

OLY-SKI-WOMEN’S-GS-HECTOR’S GOLD — Swedish skier Sara Hector capped a recent career resurgence by winning the gold medal in the women’s giant slalom at the Beijing Olympics. The win is her first individual victory at a major championship. By Andrew Dampf. SENT: 543 words, photos.

OLY-FRE-BIG AIR — Eileen Gu’s goal of three Olympic medals nearly blew off in the wind. The American-born freestyle skier who spurned Team USA for China ahead of the Beijing Games risked missing the finals in women’s big air when she lost a ski on her second run and crashed into do-or-die position entering Round 3. By Jake Seiner. SENT: 483 words, photos.

OLY-SBD-MEN’S SLOPESTYLE — Canadian snowboarder Max Parrot took home the Olympic gold medal in men’s slopestyle just over three years removed from being diagnosed with cancer. Parrot was technically superior on his second of three runs and scored a 90.96 to hold off the field. By Pat Graham. SENT: 519 words, photos. WITH: OLY–SBD-SU’S SILVER — Chinese teenager Su Yiming was a surprise silver medalist in the Olympic men’s slopestyle competition. By Pat Graham. SENT: 564 words, photos.

OLY–SPD-SPEEDSKATING — Brittany Bowe looks to give the U.S. its first individual speedskating medal since 2010 in the women’s 1,500 meters, but she’s facing tough competition that includes defending gold medalist Ireen Wust of the Netherlands and Japan’s Miho Takagi. By National Writer Paul Newberry. UPCOMING: 750 words, photos. Starts at 3:30 a.m. EST.

OLY-BIA—BIATHLON-WOMEN’S INDIVIDUAL — Sweden’s Hanna Oeberg will try to defend her Olympic title when women compete in the 15-kilometer individual biathlon race. By Martha Bellisle. UPCOMING: 450 words by 5 a.m.

OLY–JUM-SKI JUMPING-MIXED TEAM — For the first time at the Olympics, women and men will compete in a mixed team ski jumping event By Larry Lage. UPCOMING: 650 words, photos. Competition starts 6:45 a.m.

OLY–SPD-SHORT TRACK SPEEDSKATING — Short track speedskating medals are awarded in the women’s 500 meters and men’s 1,000 meters at the Beijing Olympics. By Beth Harris. UPCOMING: 600 words, photos. Begins 7:45 a.m.

OLY–SPD-SHORT TRACK — Short-track speedskating gets even crazier with the Olympic debut of the mixed team relay in Beijing. By Beth Harris. UPCOMING: 600 words, photos. Begins 6 a.m.

OLY–LUG-WOMEN’S LUGE — Germany’s Natalie Geisenberger starts the quest Monday night for what would be a third Olympic gold medal in women’s luge, when the first two runs of the four-run event are held. The medals will be decided Tuesday. By Tim Reynolds. UPCOMING: 500 words by 10 a.m., photos.

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UP TO THE MINUTE

— OLYMPICS ROUNDUP — Highlights of the day from the 2022 Winter Games.

— BEIJING OLYMPICS-THE LATEST — Real-time updates and photos from every venue around the Winter Games.

— BEIJING OLYMPICS-WHAT TO WATCH — A guide to key storylines each day. Moves after 1 a.m.

— MEDAL BRIEFS — A roundup of the day’s gold medals.

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FEATURED IMAGES

OLYTH111 — Mikaela Shiffrin of United States loses control and skis off course during the first run of the women’s giant slalom.

OLYFF115 — Ben Loomis, of the United States, prepares for his jump during a ski jumping training session in the Gundersen normal hill Nordic Combined event.

OLYAG309 — Simo Peltola of Finland competes during the men’s freestyle skiing big air qualification round.

OLYRM401 — Daniel Hemetsberger, of Austria, bleeds after finishing the men’s downhill.

OLYKS179 — China’s Su Yiming competes during men’s slopestyle finals.

OLYJR136 — Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov, of the Russian Olympic Committee, compete in the team ice dance program during the figure skating competition.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 7, 2022.