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BEIJING — Canada's Brad Gushue leaned on the divider by the side of the curling sheet Wednesday as humidifiers pumped mist into the air beside him. Waiting for practice to begin, he glanced over at the two games still being played at the Ice Cube.

ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Defending champion Oleksandr Abramenko won Ukraine's first medal of the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday and celebrated by getting a hug from Russian skier Ilia Burov at a time of rising tensions between the countries.

BEIJING (AP) — Choi Minjeong of South Korea successfully defended her Olympic title in the 1,500-meter short track speedskating race on Wednesday. She won in 2 minutes, 17.789 seconds, extending the tradition of Asian dominance in the event.

BEIJING (AP) — Victory, of sorts, for Eritrea's sole Winter Olympian — one of just six athletes competing for African countries at the Games in China — was achieved even before his feat of surviving two runs in blizzard conditions down a hazardous co

BEIJING (AP) — Shred, white and flew. Innovative American freestyle skiers Alex Hall and Nick Goepper landed jaw-dropping tricks on the Secret Garden slopestyle course and won the gold and silver medals at the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday.

ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Two legal substances used to improve heart function were listed on an anti-doping control form filled out for Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva before her drug case at the Olympics erupted, according to documents submitte

BEIJING (AP) — A roundup of gold medals from Wednesday, Feb. 16, at the Beijing Games: ___ ALPINE SKIING MEN'S SLALOM French skier Clement Noel put down a blistering second run to win the slalom by a large margin.

BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on the Beijing Winter Olympics : ___ Canada has won the 5,000-metre relay in short track speedskating.

ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Qi Guangpu of China finally flipped his way onto an Olympic podium in men's aerials, winning a gold medal Wednesday after near misses in Sochi and Pyeongchang.

BEIJING (AP) — Curling ice has come a long way in the 600 years since the Scottish began sliding stones across frozen lochs.