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The exclusive story of Iran's top female alpine skier Forough Abbasi as she trained, qualified and competed at her second Winter Game.

Forough ABBASI

Originals

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Meet the Iranian skier who blazed a historic path in PyeongChang

Hop in the Time Machine with us as figure skater Aljona Savchenko, helped by fellow Olympic champion Tara Lipinski and figure skating expert Jackie Wong, takes us back to her five Olympic appearances, culminating in gold at PyeongChang 2018.

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Time Machine: Aljona Savchenko competes at FIVE Winter Olympic Games

Sit back and enjoy nearly 45 minutes of Yuzuru Hanyu with every performance from the Sochi 2014 and PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Games.

Yuzuru HANYU

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Every Yuzuru Hanyu performance at the Olympic Games

Martins Dukurs, for all intents and purposes, is the definition of athletic consistency. At 37, the Latvian powerhouse has amassed a CV that would rival any athlete in the winter sports world.
Six world championships. 12 European championships. 11 World Cup titles. Two Olympic silver medals.
The glaring omission, of

Martins DUKURS

KOENIGSSEE, GERMANY - JANUARY 19:  Martins Dukurs of Latvia reacts at Deutsche Post Eisarena Koenigssee after the BMW IBSF World Cup Skeleton on January 19, 2018 in Koenigssee, Germany.  (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images For IBSF)

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Martins Dukurs: Latvia's 'Superman' on quest for elusive Olympic gold

There may not be a safer bet for a gold medal contest at Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 than picking Canada and the USA to meet in the final of the women's ice hockey competition.
Ice hockey fans will know just how dominant these two teams - who face each

GANGNEUNG, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 22:  Marie-Philip Poulin #29 of Canada and Brianna Decker #14 of the United States battle for the opening face-off to start the Women's Gold Medal Game on day thirteen of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Gangneung Hockey Centre on February 22, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea.  (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)

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Great Winter Olympic rivalries: Canada vs USA - women's ice hockey

Over the years, the Olympic Winter Games has seen many members of the same family earn medals at the world's premier sporting competition.
Four members of the Christian family, for example, picked up four Olympic medals (including three golds) between 1960 (when Bill and Roger Christian were part of the

POKLJUKA, SLOVENIA - FEBRUARY 20: Elvira Oeberg and Hanna Oeberg of Sweden competes during the Women 4x6 km Relay Competition at the IBU World Championships Biathlon Pokljuka at  on February 20, 2021 in Pokljuka, Slovenia. (Photo by Jurij Kodrun/Getty Images)

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Oebergs at the Olympics: Can sisters Hanna and Elvira share the podium at Beijing 2022?

Kimberley Bos is a world-class skeleton athlete - but she also happens to be a seasoned baker thanks to the sport.
For Bos, the relationship between ice and flour isn't as odd as it sounds.
The 28-year-old Dutch skeleton athlete started baking a cake early in her career following a

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Kimberley Bos exclusive: World Cup and European champion, Olympic gold-medal favourite, and baker extraordinaire

There's an underlying need for speed at the Olympic Winter Games.
Every event on snow and ice requires varying levels of velocity, from a precise shot to knock opposing stones away in curling to generating enough power to execute a triple Axel in figure skating.
But while there are a

Bobsleigh - Women's Bobsleigh

A history of the fastest performances at the Olympic Winter Games

What does it mean to be an Olympian?
For some – the smallest minority – it means a chance to fight for medals on the greatest sporting stage of all. However, for many athletes just making it to the Games is a phenomenal achievement, the culmination of a gruelling quest

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PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 19:  Elizabeth Marian Swaney of Hungary competes during the Freestyle Skiing Ladies' Ski Halfpipe Qualification on day 10 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Phoenix Snow Park on February 19, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea.  (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

Elizabeth Swaney

Elizabeth Swaney's journey from figure of fun to unlikely halfpipe hero 

Ice hockey is one of the signature sports in the Winter Olympic programme, and regardless of the Games, always seems to produce incredible moments of drama and action.
In fact, there have been so many great ice hockey moments at the Olympics that compiling a list of 10 was quite

Crosby Ovie

10 of the most memorable moments in Olympic ice hockey history

Switzerland&rsquo;s Corrine Suter seems wonderfully at ease\. A state of mind that may be unsurprising for the women&rsquo;s downhill and super\-G overall World Cup champion, but this is an athlete who had to grow up with the burden of being Alpine skiing&rsquo;s &ldquo;next big thing&rdquo; in a country where the

Skiing finally “fun” again for Swiss star Suter as she eyes up Beijing 2022

With a year to go until Beijing 2022, Tennell recounts how much she has grown since her last Winter&nbsp;Olympic experience at PyeongChang 2018, why new coach Tom Zakrajsek has been so important to her new success, and why a break from figure skating was exactly what she needed\.

Olympic Channel Podcast: Bradie Tennell on becoming U.S. national champion, improvement and figure skating

Havard Lorentzen sits in late 2020 as the reigning Olympic 500m speed skating champion, a World Sprint Championship gold medallist and a nine\-time World Cup winner, but even now the 28\-year\-old believes none of it would have been possible without going through the toughest of times\.

Career-threatening injury still providing priceless lessons for fastest man on ice

He came away with an Olympic bronze medal\. He talks to the podcast about how to stay calm under pressure, the importance of friends, and why you should be out in a garden\.

Olympic Channel Podcast: Snowboarder Billy Morgan on nerves, knee injuries, big Olympic surprises, and recycling

John Morris has pretty much done it all in curling\. He has won the Brier \(Canada&rsquo;s biggest men&rsquo;s contest in the sport, afforded near\-religious significance\), he has won the World Championships and, on home ice at the Olympic Winter Games Vancouver 2010, he secured gold in front of an ecstatic

Olympic champion Morris leaves no stone unturned in quest for more curling success

It is hard to imagine, but twice Marit Bjoergen left an Olympic Games without a single gold medal to her name\. At Salt Lake City in 2002 she was an excited 21\-year\-old, delighted to grab silver in the women&rsquo;s 4x5km relay\. Four years later, Bjoergen anticipated stamping her authority on

Olympic legend Bjoergen reveals the secrets behind her record-breaking career

&nbsp;In the two years since shocking the European cross\-country skiing powerhouses by snatching Olympic gold in the women&rsquo;s team sprint, the USA&rsquo;s Jessica Diggins has won a World Cup, finished on the podium more than a dozen times and been an almost permanent fixture in the top five of the

PyeongChang champion Jessica Diggins inspires her sport to tackle body-image troubles

When the going gets tough in biathlon, Hanna &Ouml;berg gets on top of her game\. And that ability to thrive on pressure, she says, was key to her winning a surprise Olympic gold at PyeongChang 2018 at the age of 20\.

Sharp-shooter Hanna Öberg aiming for more biathlon glory

As a teenager competing in front of a home crowd at her first Olympic Games, Choi learned to overcome the most intense nerves as well as the disappointment of disqualification to ultimately triumph and emerge an even more formidable and focused figure\.

Life is a learning curve for Republic of Korea’s golden girl Choi Min-Jeong

Japan&rsquo;s Kobayashi Ryoyu arrived at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 as a callow 21\-year\-old with just one International Ski Federation \(FIS\) World Cup podium place to his name\. He left three weeks later having recorded three top\-10 finishes &ndash; sixth in the team event, seventh in the normal hill

PyeongChang powers ski jumper Kobayashi Ryoyu to rare heights

As the end of the PyeongChang Games approached, on the eve of the Closing Ceremony, the question on everyone&rsquo;s lips was: would Ester Ledeck&aacute; do it?

The day Ester Ledecká wrote her name in the Games history books

Zoi Sadowski\-Synnott has spent the 2019/20 season being introduced as the world and US Open champion and an X Games gold\-medal winner\. They are titles which illustrate her elevated standing in the relentlessly competitive world of women&rsquo;s snowboarding\. But the 18\-year\-old is unequivocal when asked how she became so successful

PyeongChang Powered: Snowboarder Sadowski-Synnott hits the heights

When asked what the key is to mastering the contrasting demands of Nordic combined, Eric Frenzel, the discipline&rsquo;s dominant male athlete of the past decade, gives a simple yet surprising answer\.

Secrets of Nordic combined with “king” of the discipline Eric Frenzel

&ldquo;There&rsquo;s a lot that has to go right,&rdquo; Maren Lundby, the world no\.1 women&rsquo;s ski jumper, said with a smile as she embarked on a detailed explanation of how she regularly flies more than 100m through freezing\-cold air\.

Secrets of ski jumping with superstar Maren Lundby

&ldquo;There is life before that day and life after that day\. They are two different things,&rdquo; Deas said mid\-way through the 2019/20 season\. &ldquo;It has changed my life in lots of ways\.&rdquo;

PyeongChang Powered: Deas primed to continue Britain’s remarkable skeleton run

Which moment in the fabulous career of Dario Cologna, son of Val M&uuml;stair in the canton of Grisons, do we choose? The first Olympic title over 15&nbsp;km Freestyle in Vancouver in 2010 with a lead of more than 24 seconds over Italian Pietro Piller Cottrer at the finish line?

A legendary treble for Dario Cologna on 16 February 2018 in PyeongChang

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Yun&rsquo;s face, and his trademark Iron Man helmet, had seemed to be everywhere in the months leading up to the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, as he embodied the hosts&rsquo; prime hope for a gold medal, outside their traditional stronghold in the short track skating arena\.

Skeleton’s high-speed “Emperor” Yun Sung-bin refuses to rest on his laurels

One week into the Winter Games, 19\-year\-old Yuzuru Hanyu took to the ice in Sochi&rsquo;s Iceberg Skating Palace to deliver his short programme routine\. Two minutes and 50 seconds later, he had announced himself to the world with a truly astonishing performance\. To the sounds of Gary Moore&rsquo;s Parisienne Walkways,

The day Yuzuru Hanyu announced himself to the world

Friedrich continued his imperious form after collecting both Olympic golds on offer to him at PyeongChang 2018\. As well as winning eight two\-man World Cup events in a row from Sigulda \(LAT\) on 8&nbsp;December 2018 to Calgary \(CAN\) on 23&nbsp;February 2019, the German pilot also claimed four four\-man victories and

The inside view on the art of bobsleigh

Nicholls is a pioneer of British freestyle snowboarding\. On 20&nbsp;March 2016, he became the first athlete from his country to win a World Cup event, triumphing in the slopestyle at &Scaron;pindlerův Ml&yacute;n \(CZE\)\. Having taken up the sport at the age of seven, on an artificial ski slope in Halifax,

No mountains, no obstacle for GB’s growing army of snowboarders

The PyeongChang 2018 unified Korean women&rsquo;s ice hockey team was truly remarkable, and stood out from the rest in more than one way\.&nbsp;&nbsp;
While only one of the eight women&rsquo;s ice hockey teams competing at Sochi 2014 was coached by a woman \(USA\), the figure had risen to three in

The female coach behind the unified Korean ice hockey team, a symbol of peace and hope 

One year after the PyeongChang Games, what personal memories spring to mind?

Marit Bjørgen: “I don’t see myself as a legend!”

Even before USA&rsquo;s men&rsquo;s curling team won gold at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 12 months ago, there was a moment that changed their fortunes forever\.

Fourth time lucky for John Shuster

The USA could have been forgiven for going into the women&rsquo;s ice hockey final at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 with a degree of pessimism\. Canada had won the event&rsquo;s previous four gold medals and, in recent meetings, had dominated their opponents from south of the border\. They&rsquo;d also

Ice-cool goaltender Rooney reflects on PyeongChang 2018’s ‘Best Game’

To ride a 49m big air ramp requires bravery beyond belief\. But to choose to drop in for your final run at the inaugural Olympic Winter Games competition and perform a trick neither you nor your coach intended takes it to a whole new level\.

Olympic Games and snowboarding are the perfect fit, says golden Gasser

When ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir decided to enter the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, they didn&rsquo;t perhaps get the response they were hoping for\. &ldquo;It was such a risk for us, coming back into competition,&rdquo; Virtue said\. &ldquo;Nobody was pleased\. Not our competitors, not our federation, not

Five medals, three Games, two consummate figure skaters 

Hirscher, who turns 30 on 2 March, is beating record after record in the World Cup\. In 2018, over two seasons, he amassed 15 wins, a total that nobody has ever bettered\. When he won the giant slalom and slalom at Adelboden \(Switzerland\) on 12 and 13 January 2019, that

Marcel Hirscher: “In PyeongChang, I had nothing to lose” 

As the Winnie the Pooh teddy bears rained onto the rink at the Gangneung Ice Arena, it became clear that those present had just witnessed greatness\. It was 17 February 2018 and Yuzuru Hanyu had just become the first figure skater for 66 years to retain the men&rsquo;s singles Olympic

History-maker Hanyu’s own “miracle on ice” in achieving PyeongChang glory

&ldquo;I can remember everything from PyeongChang 2018, down to the smallest detail,&rdquo; says Yun\. &ldquo;However, if I had to choose only one moment that stands out, I would pick the fourth run, which was when I clinched my gold medal\. That was the moment that all my efforts paid off\.&rdquo;

Homegrown hero Yun Sungbin relives his golden skeleton feat at PyeongChang 2018

The Alpine skier, who at the age of 23 has already won more World Cup slalom titles than any other woman in history and who in December 2018 became the first female skier to win all six World Cup disciplines, experienced familiar highs in PyeongChang but also rare and traumatising

Mikaela SHIFFRIN

Giant slalom gold in PyeongChang “symbolises everything” for superstar Shiffrin 

&ldquo;It does give you a rush when people announce you as Olympic downhill champion,&rdquo; laughed the man who flew down PyeongChang 2018&rsquo;s most testing slope in one minute, 40\.25 seconds\.

Aksel Lund SVINDAL

Olympic downhill title defines career for serial winner Svindal

He may make it all look incredibly natural, but US snowboarding legend Shaun White overcame a huge amount to win his third Olympic gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018\. Having won gold in the halfpipe at Torino 2006 and retained the title four years later in Vancouver,

White-hot Olympian Shaun focusing on a place in history

"These were my third Olympics," recalls Ter Mors\. "I was part of our short track relay team in Vancouver, which finished fourth in the final\. That was disappointing at the time, but having gone through the overwhelming Olympic experience there, I knew what to expect in Sochi four years later

Ter Mors recalls her historic skating double at PyeongChang 2018

Italian short track star didn&rsquo;t know she was going to win the 500m at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 &ndash; but her husband and coach, Anthony Lobello, somehow did\.

Elusive Olympic gold finally secured at “superb” PyeongChang 2018 

Your third Games, in PyeongChang, began with a disappointment, as you finished 8th in the sprint\. How did you feel at that moment?

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