With hours to go before the opening ceremony starts, the 2022 Winter Olympics has already notched its first win. Because who wants to snooze in a cardboard bed when you can score a high-tech sleeper complete with several settings including Zero-g mode? "It's as if the Beijing organizing committee said, 'How can we just absolutely just one-up Tokyo?'" luge athlete Summer Britcher joked in a TikTok video from her Olympic Village digs. And with that dispatch...let the games begin! No, not the competitions that end with podiums and medals and elegant nosegays of flowers, but rather the pastime we all indulge in every two years of gleaning every tiny...
- 2/4/2022
- E! Online
There's no hard truth to uncover here. Ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, luge athlete Summer Britcher wants the world to know that the beds in the Olympic Village in Beijing are out of this world. After landing in Beijing, she was asked if the Olympic Village's beds were made of cardboard like they notoriously had been at the Tokyo Olympics over the summer. And her answer is going to delight fans—and probably annoy some 2020 athletes. "I am so excited you asked this question, because I have something incredible to share," Britcher said in a TikTok video. "Because not only do we not have cardboard beds here, but it's as if the Beijing organizing committee...
- 1/28/2022
- E! Online
Team USA is growing and preparing for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The 2018 U.S. Olympic Team is expected to reach about 240 athletes. Some of them still competed furiously for the chance to take part in the Games as recently as the final weeks of 2017! See photos of the 2018 Olympic Games' Team USA athletes such as lugers Summer Britcher, Jayson Terdiman and Chris Mazdzer, ski jumper Sarah Hendrickson, alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin, snowboarders Lindsey Jacobellis, Jamie Anderson and Chase Josey, short track speedskater J.R. Celski and freeskier Gus Kenworthy behind-the-scenes: The opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics will...
- 12/25/2017
- E! Online
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