Henry Bushnell at the Olympics

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[Henry Bushnell at the Olympics @HbOlympics]

Mikaela Shiffrin failed, and then, again and again, she kept coming back to us, the media, and bearing her soul.

I had a simple question for her Sunday: Why?

The answer is her legacy at these Olympics:

https://t.co/hHXhD4bXzz

[Henry Bushnell at the Olympics @HbOlympics]

On Elana Meyers Taylor, the gold medal chase that once defined her, the son who helped her realize it shouldn't, and Elmo-themed birthday parties:

https://t.co/agd8bB0s2M

[Henry Bushnell at the Olympics @HbOlympics]

The windy conditions up on the mountain.

This is why there want be skiing today, and perhaps not tomorrow or anymore at these Olympics

[Henry Bushnell at the Olympics @HbOlympics]

Some info from Yanqing on the "scramble" to reschedule the Alpine team competition, and avoid the first Olympic event cancellation since 1928:

https://t.co/S0DXnQ71fa

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Once more up the mountain.

Gondolas swaying in the wind. Gusts up to 26 mph.

Feels like -10 degrees F

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The IOC (and most of us) have been operating on the apparent assumption that if Kamila Valieva is guilty, Russia will lose its team event medals.

The ROC has challenged that assumption, and it might have a case:

https://t.co/vhiGc63rf5

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On Mikaela Shiffrin and the only thing more difficult than Olympic failure: inexplicable Olympic failure

https://t.co/1OK7EPMw4B

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The story of Sofia Goggia, skiing's unbreakable woman, and the silver medal that felt "a little bit impossible":

https://t.co/xeCz7XOZQL

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"I think it's completely unfair to the rest of the competitors," Chinese-American skater Beverly Zhu Yi told @YahooSports.

"It's the fact that everybody else is clean and she tested positive."

https://t.co/JMbTpZKFUP

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On Elana Meyers Taylor, and the silver that "feels better than gold":

https://t.co/CGntKtkCPQ

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CAS hearing concluded a little after 2 a.m. Beijing time. Kamila Valieva was present, along with all the relevant orgs.

Decision around 2 p.m. Beijing time, 1 a.m. ET

[Henry Bushnell at the Olympics @HbOlympics]

His last race sent him to the hospital, and in and out of depression.

His next, 13 months later: the Olympics.

Tommy Ford has a remarkable story:

https://t.co/klxQXy9A0K

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@YahooSports Updated story, including this:

Former director of the Stockholm lab tells @YahooSports that "the reason is most likely Omicron."

"Many labs have had difficulties [getting] the organization together during the last month, including my own."

https://t.co/a99b9fD8np

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RUSADA claims that the delay in reporting Kamila Valieva's test results was due to "another wave of COVID-19, an increase in illness among laboratory staff and quarantine rules."

"Don't buy it for a second," USADA CEO Travis Tygart told me.

https://t.co/a99b9fD8np

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a piece on the "inexcusable" six-week testing delay that hangs over the Valieva doping case...

TMZ is "easily identifiable. Your positive test would've stood out like a sore thumb," Dick Pound told @YahooSports.

"So why did they wait so long?"

https://t.co/a99b9fCAxR

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Team China, made in North America, overmatched but "honored."

And what about citizenship?

"Ah, you gotta talk to the Chinese staff about that one," Jake Chelios told me.

https://t.co/vmQ3YfjsaC

[Henry Bushnell at the Olympics @HbOlympics]

Katie Uhlaender knows what it feels like to be "cheated" out of a medal by Russian doping.

And while she knows nothing about the Kamila Valieva case, she does know this: "nothing was done to protect the athletes or prevent this from happening again."

https://t.co/6XE4KPG6WJ

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On the Winter Olympian's climate change conundrum, which is a microcosm of society's climate change conundrum:

https://t.co/4LnuXASYTt

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COVID frustration. Confusion. Mistrust. Tears.

Multiple redeyes. Lost luggage. Borrowed blades.

Casey Dawson's is unlike any other Olympic story, ever:

https://t.co/kxH47HYZ61

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He got married at 40. “I've made everything late in life, since I was a young boy. ... Walking, speaking, everything.

“Apparently, for my sport career, it's quite the same.”

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Johan Clarey is 41 years old and has never won a World Cup ski race.

He didn't think he could medal this week, "not at all," because, well, his best Olympic finish was 18th.

Until today, when he smashed an "oldest to" record:

https://t.co/QCKaFFk8fH