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Mikaela Shiffrin fell at the start of the alpine competitions in Beijing
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Shiffrin surprisingly eliminated in giant slalom
02.45 a.m .:
The two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin was surprisingly eliminated in the first round of the giant slalom.
The favorite US ski racer slipped at the seventh gate, went off the track and was disqualified.
Four years ago in Pyeongchang, Shiffrin had won gold in the discipline.
The 73-time World Cup winner has her next chance at gold on Wednesday.
Then there is the slalom, in which Shiffrin is also one of the hunted.
The longtime ski dominator had planned to compete in all alpine disciplines at the Olympics.
The Rydzeks' Olympic moment
02.20 a.m .:
The German cross-country skiing team starts the upcoming sprints on Tuesday with a total of five starters. Victoria Carl, Sofie Krehl, Pia Fink and Coletta Rydzek will compete for the women on the modern facilities in Zhangjiakou. Rydzek from the Allgäu is the younger sister of combined Olympic champion Johannes Rydzek, who is also in China. The siblings have already seen each other. »I visited her in the Olympic Village, we ate together and took a few souvenir pictures. That's something very special. That's my moment so far," said Johannes Rydzek.
Only Janosch Brugger starts for the men.
Team boss Peter Schlickenrieder's team is a clear outsider in the third and fourth cross-country competitions of the Beijing Winter Games.
US accuses China of diversionary tactics
12:30 a.m .:
The US Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, accuses China of wanting to distract attention from the human rights violations against the Uighur population.
The fact that Uyghur cross-country skier Dinigeer Yilamujiang lit the Olympic flame was "an attempt by the Chinese to distract us from the real problem, which is that Uyghurs are being tortured and that Uyghurs are victims of human rights abuses by the Chinese," Thomas-Greenfield told CNN -Show »State of the Union«: »We have to keep an eye on that.«
Hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs live in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. The Chinese authorities put them in so-called re-education camps and tortured them there.
Thomas-Greenfield said the selection of Yilamujiang as the last torchbearer does not change the situation on the ground.
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