Polish speed skater Zbigniew Brodka confirmed on Sunday his retirement after the Beijing Winter Olympics, as he "achieved as much as he could on the ice track." In 2014, Brodka won gold in the men's 1,500m and bronze in the team pursuit at the Sochi Winter Olympics.
German officials couldn't have made better choices regarding the team's flag-bearers for the opening and closing ceremony at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. While the country's king of bobsleigh, Francesco Friedrich, carried the flag for the start of the Olympics, his brakeman Thorsten Margis did the job for the end.
Finland grabbed its first ever men's Olympic gold medal with a 2-1 victory over the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), while China scored its first ever goal in Beijing 2022's ice hockey event which concluded on Sunday. Slovakia also made progress as it claimed its first Olympic men's ice hockey medal after defeating Sweden 4-0 in the bronze medal match.
As the Beijing Winter Olympics wraps up, the craze for acquiring a Bing Dwen Dwen, the panda mascot for the games, has persisted, now expanding into the digital art market supported by blockchain technology. On Friday, a San Francisco-based mobile-game company called nWayPlay rolled out its second batch of 200 Legendary Box packages containing the digital pins to several non-fungible tokens (NFTs) featuring images of the mascot.
