Beijing2022 Olympics Day 16: Canada caps a COVID Winter Olympics in Beijing with 26 medals, including four gold
8:06 a.m.:The long-track speedskater's teammates across an array of sports – 220 of them to be exact – did pretty much the same thing moments later at the closing ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
A pile of figure-skating rubble created by Russian misbehavior. A new Chinese champion — from California. An ace American skier who faltered and went home empty-handed. The end of the Olympic line for the world’s most renowned snowboarder. All inside an anti-COVID “closed loop" enforced by China's authoritarian government.
About 125 people in Canada's delegation of 555 athletes, coaches, support and mission staff had contracted the virus in the weeks before the opening ceremonies, according to Canadian Olympic Committee chief executive officer David Shoemaker. Canada's 26 medals — four gold, eight silver and 14 bronze — ranked fourth in the medal table behind Norway , Russia and Germany and ahead of the United States
Burke was supposed to compete in the sport when it made its debut at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, but she died two years before those Games following a tragic training accident. She was 29.
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