It was an embarrassment to the very idea of sport. It reduced some people watching it to tears. It felt like a scene from an exploitation film.
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Valieva’s final doomed routine in the free skate element of the women’s individual event in Beijing’s Capital Indoor Stadium on Thursday was one of the most uncomfortable sporting spectacles I have seen. It fits in, sadly, with its appeasement of China over the treatment of tennis player Peng Shuai. The longer these Games have gone on, the more they have underlined what we already knew: that the Olympics has become a movement that is in thrall to power elites, a movement that will sacrifice anything and anyone - even a 15-year-old child - in its pursuit of riches and influence and its obeisance to dictators. but Bruce Mouat and Co secure silver to clinch Team GB's first medal of the Winter Olympics Great Britain agonisingly miss out on gold in the men's curling final after suffering defeat by Sweden in tight contest.but it risks being CANCELLED with just one day of the games left Olympic organisers face a race against time to squeeze in Alpine Skiing mixed event before the closing ceremony after winds of 27 miles per hour forced the race to be rescheduled.Team GB's Gus Kenworthy admits he is 'happy to be walking' after HORROR crash in the men's halfpipe final amid treacherous weather conditions in Beijing, as he misses out on a medal and finishes eighth.Team GB are guaranteed another Winter Olympics medal after beating Sweden to book their place in the women's curling final against Japan, as Eve Muirhead gets revenge for 2018.