Shaun White Will Retire From Competitive Snowboarding After Beijing Olympics

Nathan Chen is bringing home his first Olympic gold medal, as well as a Team Silver medal, after winning the 2022 Beijing Olympics.

Despite all the high-tech tricks, political posturing and pyrotechnics, the best part of the Closing Ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics proved to be the athletes.

NEW YORK -- There were many reasons to think NBC made a savvy business deal in 2014 when it locked up the American media rights to the Olympics through 2032 for $7.75 billion.As the Beijing winter games come to a close, it's harder to see them now.These Olympics were a disaster for the network: a buzz-free, hermetically-sealed event in an authoritarian country a half-day's time zone away, where the enduring images will be the emotional meltdown of Russian teen-agers after a drug-tainted figure skating competition and a bereft Mikaela Shiffrin, sitting on a ski slope wondering what went wrong.Many American athletes underperformed, and arguably the most successful — freestyle skier Eileen Gu — competed for China.Viewers stayed away in alarming numbers, and NBC has to wonder whether it was extraordinarily bad luck or if the brand of a once-unifying event for tens of millions of people is permanently tainted.“Given the investment, they've got to be disappointed right now,” said Andrew Billings, director of the sports communications program at the University of Alabama.Network executives say there are no plans to try and adjust or escape from its rights deal. Several experts say that would be unlikely, given how live sports are increasing in value and represent one of the few ways advertisers can gather large audiences to sell automobiles or beer.

Shaun White may have retired a week ago, but he’s already crossed one big thing off of his bucket list.According to the three-time Olympic gold medalist, who officially completed his last run on February 11, his girlfriend Nina Dobrev encouraged him to make a list of things that he wanted to do after his retirement. He stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday to talk about his last run and everything he’s been up to since.A post shared by Nina Dobrev (@nina)“My girlfriend said, ‘If you’re retiring, you gotta make this list of things you wanna do,’” he explained.

EXCLUSIVE: NBCUniversal, amazingly, is now in its fifth decade of carrying the Olympic Games. With this month’s Beijing Winter Olympics, though, all of that accumulated institutional knowledge is colliding with a media landscape in massive flux.

Out French ice dancer, Guillaume Cizeron, won a gold medal Monday at the Beijing Winter Olympics.Cizeron skated with his longtime skating partner, Gabriella Papadakis.

Vladyslav Heraskevych, who is representing Ukraine in the skeleton race, unfurled an 8 X 10″ sign as he came off his third of four heats that read simply, in English, “No War in Ukraine.” It marks the first overtly political statement from a competitor in a Games that has been rife with subtle (and not to subtle) political messaging.

Focusing on the positive. After a difficult start at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Mikaela Shiffrin offered a glimpse at how she approached her remaining time at the international sports competition.

A legendary career. Shaun White reflected on his snowboarding achievements after his final Olympic Games ended without a medal.

Kamila Valieva is cementing her place as one of the greatest figure skaters of all time and she is only 15-years-old.

kicked off their opening day, tweeting her thoughts about the city’s alleged human rights violations.“There is no reason to watch a Winter Olympics that is holding up and spreading propaganda for a regime that is committing actual genocide and ethnic cleansing,” she claimed. “On top of poisoning the world and killing 6 million people.

With the first full day of games tucked away, NBC posted some early numbers from the Beijing Winter Olympics and the glass seems to be half full.

Hanging up his board. Ahead of Shaun White’s upcoming snowboarding events in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, the athlete has confirmed his retirement.

Go team go! Team USA has a long history of winning at the Winter Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Games are no different.

It’s early days at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, but NBC must already be praying for some Gold medal glory or the Super Bowl to give them a boost. Right now, coming off record low viewership in the first night of primetime coverage, the billions the Comcast-owned network fork out to broadcast the Games until 2032 isn’t looking like money well spent.

Shaun White has announced that he is retiring from professional snowboarding.

Ellise Shafer A Dutch journalist was interrupted and pulled out of frame by a Chinese security guard while covering the Beijing Olympics on Friday.As can be seen in a video that quickly went viral on Friday, NOS correspondent Sjoerd den Daas was reporting outside of the National Stadium in Beijing during the Olympics’ opening ceremony when he was stopped by a security guard and pushed out of frame.Onze correspondent @sjoerddendaas werd om 12.00u live in het NOS Journaal door beveiligers voor de camera weggetrokken. Helaas is dit steeds vaker de dagelijkse realiteit voor journalisten in China.

The opening ceremony for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics has happened and we have tons of great photos from the event.

is curling, exactly?” Debating which athlete will next compete on . There are certain mainstays around the that we've come to depend on, and that includes near-constant coverage from the journalists broadcasting live from the Games. But this year will look a lot different due to a variety of factors—the ongoing pandemic, the strict protocols the Chinese government has placed on those traveling to Beijing, and the in protest of China's alleged human rights abuses among them. And because of that, the majority of the NBC team is staying home to report on the Games from the U.S. For Today hosts Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie, the change of plans comes with mixed feelings. "The pandemic obviously has changed plans in a multitude of ways.