Lindsey Jacobellis won the United States’ first title at the Beijing Olympics, with her women’s snowboard cross gold medal helping to erase the pain of an agonising mishap 16 years ago
Defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin missed a gate early in the first run of the giant slalom with Sara Hector profiting from the disqualification to take gold
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott captured New Zealand’s first gold medal in Winter Olympic history, stomping down a pressure run on her last trip down the mountain
The former speed-skater has endured heartbreak on and off the ice and, after attempting to take her own life last April, tells Donald McRae how she is now trying to summon the resilience that usually defines her
Boris Johnson has said there will ‘effectively be a diplomatic boycott’ of the Winter Olympics in Beijing given that no UK ministers or officials will be attending