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With the Winter Games whipping toward their finish, Mother Nature swirled up something fierce in the mountains around Beijing on Saturday.

BEIJING (AP) — Olympic organizers closed the ski slopes, then shortened the cross-country course by 40%. They forged ahead in the halfpipe, and that turned into…

<p>New Zealand's Nico Porteous goes for gold in the men's freeski halfpipe, winning his second gold of these Games.</p><p></p><p>The Americans Wise and Ferreira round out the silver and bronze medals respectively.</p><p></p><p>Elsewhere, due to wind gusts at nearly 40 mph (65 kph), the Alpine mixed team parallel event has been postponed with plans to resume at 9 a.m. local time Sunday in Beijing.</p><p></p>...

The Latest on the Beijing Winter Olympics:

Figure skaters Sui Wenjing and Han Cong of China notched the highest pairs score ever to win Olympic gold, American bobsledder Elana Meyer became the most decorated Black athlete in Winter Olympics history with a bronze medal in the two-woman race, and Reno’s David Wise won the silver medal in the freestyle skiing halfpipe competition on Day 15 of the 2022 Winter Olympics.

The Latest on the Beijing Winter Olympics:

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

© Provided by Xinhua CHONGLI, Zhangjiakou, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand Nico Porteous claimed gold in men halfpipe here on Saturday, the last event

Nico Porteous claimed gold for New Zealand in the Mens halfpipe downhill skiing in Beijing, but who are his parents? Is his brother also an Olympian?

Beijing Games organizers closed the ski slopes, then shortened the cross-country course by 40%.