MADDIE MASTRO

Chloe Kim will try to become the first women's snowboard to win repeat Olympic titles.

American Chloe Kim, the defending gold medalist, is through to her second career Games final, but will not be joined by teammate Maddie Mastro.

For the first time ever the Winter Olympics is taking place the same time as the Super Bowl. USA TODAY’s Christine Brennan looks at how NBC, and American viewers, are going to react to this confusing collision course.

“Anti-sex” beds are out, and panda pillows are in at this next round of the Olympics in Beijing. Team USA snowboarder Maddie Mastro shared a series of videos to TikTok giving viewers a sneak peek into the athletes’ dorms for the 2022 Olympics. Rumors circulated on social media that the cardboard beds were constructed with flimsy material to prevent athletes from cozying up with one other in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The next big leap in snowboarding went down Sunday on a sun-splashed halfpipe in Colorado with a trick that set the stakes for the gold-medal race to Beijing.

Shaun White will have to wait at least one more week to get an inside track on a trip to his fourth Olympics after an eighth-place finish at the season’s first qualifying event.