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ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Needing to rock his final Olympic halfpipe run just to qualify, Aaron Blunck proceeded to pumped up the volume. With a song called “TOES” featuring DaBaby blaring in his ears, the 25-year-old freestyle skier from Colorado struck just the right note to turn in the best run of anyone.

BEIJING -- If Mikaela Shiffrin exits the Beijing Olympics without a medal, it won't be for lack of trying.

Needing to rock his final Olympic halfpipe run just to qualify, Aaron Blunck proceeded to pump up the volume. “If someone wants to mess with me on a competition day, they'd take away my music,” said New Zealand’s Nico Porteous, who will be one of the favorites in the final Saturday, which marks the end of the fun and games at the Genting Snow Park. For his qualifying run, Porteous went back in time, to the 1990s, to The Notorious B.I.G.’s song “Who Shot Ya?” It's the same...

<p>A frustrating Olympics for Mikaela Shiffrin sees her get one more shot at a medal in the mixed team parallel slalom competition. Shiffrin, who has two individual golds and a silver from the past two Winter Olympics, had three "did not finishes" and no medals in her five individual events.</p><p></p><p>As for the two-woman bobsled, Elana Meyers Taylor and Sylvia Hoffman sit in third after two runs, with fellow American duo Kaillie Humphries and K...

Here are livestream links and clips from the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing: Day 14.

Day 15 in Beijing features four Americans vying for a medal in the freestyle skiing halfpipe final.

ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Needing to rock his final Olympic halfpipe run just to qualify, Aaron Blunck proceeded to pumped up the volume. With a song called “TOES” featuring DaBaby blaring in his ears, the 25-year-old freestyle skier from Colorado struck just the right note to turn in the best run of anyone.

In a world filled with “double corks,” “Japan grabs” and “backside rodeos,” it’s the tunes that sync it all together for most of the halfpipe competitors. To them, their AirPods are almost as important as the bindings on their skis.

The U.S. womens hockey team plays Canada for gold, Mikaela Shiffrin skis the combined and Eileen Gu hits the halfpipe at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.

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