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As rcs, ryan made his first olympic appearance in 2018 and did not win a medal and then a year ago he fractured his neck in a horrific crash. >> and into the fencing. >> it was a big learning experience kind of understanding the limits of who i am and what i can be and trying to learn from that, too. >> now ryan is back at the winter games, skiing better than ever and hoping to make the podium 50 years after his mom took gold. >> what do you think when you look at him rate now and see him? >> i ...

The fanfare and flam our of the oly glamour of the olympic games. from tennis player pong shuai, these olympic games may be the ultimate game of pro-chinese propaganda. cns david culver gives us a closer look. >> reporter: when a beam gets on the jumbotron, the ioc president watching free skiing superstar eileen gu one day after retracted a sexual assault allegation aimed at a china leader. appearing to be in line to the narrative, that pong is just fine. that narrative by the success and happin...

Event of the winter olympics. but as the wind speeds dropped, the worlds fastest skiers could finally get underway. beat feuz had won pretty much everything in skiing, except olympic gold. blitzing his way down at more than 80 miles an hour, hurtling himself towards the line, the swiss speed merchant got his hands on the title he so craved. time for two athletes at different stages of their careers to do something no women had ever done before at an 0lympics. speed skating great ireen wust becom...

Clear he wants camilla to be his queen when he takes the throne. the current sitting monarch has to give approval for that, she gave that saying she wants camilla to be queen consort and charles takes the throne. this is something charles was unwilling to compromise about. he has the best shot of getting public support, i think, if the queen backs him and asks for public support. thats what we saw this weekend. >> max foster outside the buckingham palace. thanks very much, max. good to see you. ...

Of europes first covid hotspots back at the beginning of 2020. almost two years on, and ischgl is cautiously reopening the business. we have been there to find out how things are going. what makes ischgl special? the area is like, awesome, there is so much space, so much fun, and you have so many options to...do crazy things. in the wintertime, when the sun is shining, i will be up here for snowboarding. how the season was this year, and how busy, pfft, it is still a kind of busy but it is a lit...

In canada but competes for his parents�* country of birth — first at the youth olympics in innsbruck, austria in 2012, then at winter olympics in pyeongchang in 2018 and now at beijing 2022. he told the bbc about the challenges he overcame to get to where he is today. iam out i am out alpine skier from eritrea. ifirst i am out alpine skier from eritrea. i first started skiing at three years old at a small town. its up north, very north in canada. when i first qualified, it felt amazing. i wa...

Going to have the mixed team event to tune into and watch those high-flying human torpedoes do their thing. >> human torpedoes. i shall be watching. coy, what else have you got your eyes on for today? >> reporter: well, theres a lot of skiing going on, and thats where, you know, you get some of these fast -- theres no vehicles, right. they are the vehicle. and theyre just hitting such high speeds. thats what im going to be tuning into today. the mens event had to be postponed because of high win...

People are skiing and skateboarding. theyre not prepared for war. if vladimir putin invades, he has a range of options available to them. one of them is a major invasion of ukraine. an invasion that would take cities and this city, kiev. it would begin with an aerial bombardment. so within two days, we could see missiles and bombs landing in this city. the city is not ready for it. the people dont think its going to happen. martha? >> steve harrigan reporting live from kiev, ukraine. lets bring ...

In training, in norway. its been described as the worlds toughest sport. cross—country skiing is, at times, the ultimate uphill struggle. but andrew musgrave has the summit in his sights. commentator: and look at this from andrew musgrave. .. - the scot finished seventh at the last games, britains best—ever result, and hes been a contender ever since. in the summer, training out on the roads, on roller skis as he chases what once seemed an impossible dream. i remember when i was 14, 15, back...

And how busy, pfft, it is still a kind of busy but it is a little bit lower, relaxeder. for skiing, it is so good because most of the time you have the feeling you are really alone, up on the mountains. not so long ago, ischgl was best known as the ibiza of the alps, as famous for its dazzling apres ski scene as its 240 kilometres of pistes. but in early march 2020, as covid began to arrive in europe, the authorities here were slow to respond.