Day six of the Winter Olympic Games will see big-name showdowns in figure skating, snowboarding and freestyle skiing.
Chloe Kim of the US will seek to defend her title in women’s snowboard halfpipe. Kim, 21, is one of the top US medal prospects in Beijing. She became the youngest woman to top the podium in the snowboard halfpipe in 2018 at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.
China will hope to seize a gold medal in the mixed team aerial freestyle skiing, which makes its Olympic debut this year.
Nathan Chen of the US leads in the men’s single figure skating after displacing two-time champion Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan. The final event takes place on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the Shougang skiing venue, a renovated former steel plant on the outskirts of Beijing that hosts the big air events, has stirred controversy in recent days, with an aerial shot of the ski jump circulating on social media showing it surrounded by a grey, industrial landscape.
The Beijing organising committee chose the venue to represent sustainability and some have praised the decision. Gold medalist and face of the games Eileen Gu called the site “fantastic”.
On Wednesday, German duo Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt won their third consecutive gold in the men’s luge doubles, making them the first team in any Winter Olympic event to do so.
