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Nothing is quite as refreshing as cold air and warm water.

"Every athlete needs to know when they put their flag on, youre standing for freedom or youre standing for human rights abuses," the former U.N. ambassador said.

Day 12 at the 2022 Winter Olympics includes Nick Goepper in the freeski slopestyle final, Team USA in the men’s hockey quarterfinal game, cross-country star Jessie Diggins in the women’s team sprint and Chris Lillis and Justin Schoenefeld hoping to make the podium in men’s freestyle skiing aerials finals.

It was a disappointing run for the world champion, who is fighting with a back injury.

Mikaela Shiffrin confirmed that she will, indeed, race a downhill at the Winter Olympics for the first time Tuesday. And she says she is changing how she thinks about what is at stake as she prepares for her fourth event in Beijing.

BEIJING (AP) — When Dave Ryding gets to the start gate of the men’s slalom at the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday, expectations on a British skier will be high for the first time in decades. Ryding became the first British winner in the 55-year history of the Alpine skiing World Cup — and on one of the circuit’s most challenging slalom courses — when he triumphed in Kitzbühel, Austria, last month.

The Team USA skier won bronze at the 2018 Games in PyeongChang. Prior to that, Sigourney finished 6th in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.

After the privations of recent months, we’ve scouted around for some unique and spectacular ways to spend winter in the mountains. From Iran to Iceland, the Rockies to Russia, why wait to book that ski trip of a lifetime? 

Snow Creek in Weston is experiencing an increase in attendance because of the Olympics. 

The skiers fall occurred in the "Apocalypse Couloir," a notoriously dangerous slope located in Death Canyon in Wyoming.