Day 10 of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

Austria won the gold medal in the men's team ski jumping competition, with a total score of 942.7, after trailing Slovenia following the first round of the final.

Stefan Kraft, Daniel Huber, Jan Hörl and Manuel Fettner finished the final strongly to earn the gold for Austria.

"It's unbelievable. I'd say it's one of the best days in my life," said Kraft, "It's a team with friends, and for the whole team and for Austria, it was great."

"It's just an amazing event here at the Olympics. It's mentally so tough, but we did the best jump we could do today and it feels amazing," added Huber.

Slovenia finished with the silver medal on 934.4 points, while Germany earned the bronze with 922.9 points.

The win is Austria's third in the event, tying the record for most golds with Germany.

It took four Olympic Games but China's Xu Mengtao finally captured her elusive gold medal at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in the women's aerials event.

Xu finished sixth at Vancouver 2010, won the silver at Sochi 2014 and finished ninth in PyeongChang 2018. She also won a silver in Beijing as part of China's mixed team.

After the final, Xu bursted with emotion, telling the press about her immense joy: "I'm just super excited. This is the first gold medal by China in women's aerials and it's just super cool.

"I just wanted to do the best tricks I can do and I did it and that was all."

At the aerials event, 2018 gold medalist Hanna Huskova had set the marker with a big jump that earned her a score of 107.95, but Xu scored a 108.61 after landing a Back Full-Full-Full. Team USA's Megan Nick, in her first Olympic Games, won bronze.

Two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu didn't fully close the door on returning for a fourth Games after a disappointing outing in Beijing.

Hanyu skated on a sprained right ankle injury suffered in training just days before the free skate section of the men's singles event.

In his first press conference since finishing fourth and failing to win his third successive gold medal in the event, the 27-year-old explained that the injury was "worse than I initially thought."

"Any other competition and I would have definitely pulled out," Hanyu said during a press conference which was televised live nationally in Japan. "The doctor told me I need to rest it for 10 days. It's that bad. It hurt so badly during morning practice the day of competition that I even thought about pulling out.

"I was given a painkilling shot about 10 minutes before warm-up and decided to compete."

Hanyu hasn't made his mind up on whether or not he will be competing in the gala event on Sunday — it will be depending on how his ankle feels before it starts.

But the two-time gold medal winner held open the door to making a fourth Games appearance at the Winter Olympics at Cortina in 2026.

"The honest answer is I don't know. I came to the Olympic Games and I felt once again that the Olympics are so special," he said.

"I have an injury, but still I managed to get back on my feet and take on this challenge. The Olympic Games are the only stage for a figure skater to be able to do something like that. I felt really happy. So, of course, feeling wise, I would love to be able to skate at an Olympic Games once again."

South Korean figure skating icon Kim Yuna spoke out against the ongoing Kamila Valieva doping controversy in an Instagram post on Monday, saying an "athlete who violates doping cannot compete in the game (sic)."

The 2010 women's singles gold medalist went on to say, "This principle must be observed without exception. All players' efforts and dreams are equally precious."

The Instagram post is the latest reaction against the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) decision on Monday to allow Valieva to compete for the remainder of Beijing 2022, despite testing positive for a prohibited substance in December ahead of the Games.

In a statement, CAS said it had decided Valieva, 15, should be allowed to compete due to "exceptional circumstances," including specific provisions linked to her status as a "protected person" under the WADA code, because she is a minor.

The head of the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) Travis Tygart said Russia has "hijacked the competition" and "stolen the moment from clean athletes" for the "sixth consecutive Olympic Games."

While Tygart acknowledged the that decision should be respected, he said that it was "a rushed one."

"Only time will tell if [Valieva] should be competing in these Games and whether or not all of her results will be disqualified," he said.

However, if it is found that Valieva should not have competed, Tygart said that the verdict will "reveal what a farce the handling of the Russia state-sponsored doping system by the IOC has been over the last eight years."

"If Russia had followed the rules, we would know for certain the outcome of the Figure Skating Team Event and those athletes who gave it their all could have their podium moment during these Games as they rightfully deserve with the world in celebration with them."

Read more about the reaction to the Valieva decision here.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Monday he hoped Kamila Valieva along with the other members of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) figure skating team would receive their gold medals “soon” after Valieva was cleared to continue competing at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

The medal ceremony for the figure skating team event was due to take place last week but was postponed after a positive drug test — now known to be that of Valieva — that was returned by a member of the ROC figure skating team.

Remember: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced earlier Monday that it would “not be appropriate” for the medal ceremony to take place at the Beijing Games until Valieva’s case had concluded.

Valieva is now scheduled to take part in the women’s individual competition which begins on Tuesday. She has no plans to withdraw from the event, Russian state news agency TASS reported Monday.

When asked specifically about the IOC’s decision not to hold a medal ceremony should Valieva finish in the top three of the competition, Peskov said: “Let's not interfere the work with our comments.”

“We are talking about the serious work of both lawyers and representatives of our Russian Olympic Committee, WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency), RUSADA and so on. The work continues,” he added.

Peskov also stated that he hoped Russia would be able to compete at the next Olympics as “a normal full-fledged national participation regime.”

“We believe that Russia is fulfilling all obligations. We perform without a flag, an anthem,” said Peskov. “Russia has always been a very responsible member of the Olympic family and remains fully committed to the ideas of Olympism.”

Russian athletes are unable to compete at a third consecutive Olympics under their country's name, flag and national anthem due to sanctions from the IOC and WADA as a result of the country's "systemic manipulation" of anti-doping rules during the 2014 Sochi Games.

For 17-year-old William Flaherty, yesterday's men's giant slalom was the culmination of eight years' work.

And although he finished more than half a minute behind gold medal winner Marco Odermatt, it was a moment of triumph for Flaherty.

When he was three years old, Flaherty was diagnosed with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, a rare disease in which the immune system attacks the patient’s organs.

Doctors gave him a 10% chance of survival at the time but a bone marrow donation from brother Matt — a Winter Olympian in PyeongChang in 2018 — helped him pull through.

Even after that, the Olympian representing Puerto Rico has continued to be plagued with health issues, and even competed in Beijing with a benign tumor in his jaw.

Due to his medical complications, he does not predict he'll be competing in Cortina, Italy, in 2026.

Flaherty is still scheduled to compete in the men’s slalom event on Friday. And his experience in China has given him "hope for the future of the world."

“The Olympics is such a cool, special place. It shows that despite everyone's differences in language, religion, political ideals, people can and are capable of uniting under the name of sport and anything else that they've got in common,” he said.

This snowsuit is grrrrrrrrrr-eat!

France's Lucile Lefevre decided to dress up for Monday's snowboard big air qualification after suffering an injury to her knee in the slopestyle event which hampered her ability to complete tricks.

Instead, she chose to make her "very last competition" a bit more colorful.

"I feel good about it because the world should be fun. There are a lot of problems in the world. If everyone was peace and easy, the world would be better for sure, that’s the message I want to share," Lefevre told reporters.

She finished 29th in qualifying, but she still earned her stripes. It is the Year of the Tiger after all.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva won't feature in any medal ceremonies at Beijing 2022, according to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Earlier on Monday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decided to clear Valieva to compete at the Beijing Games following an hours-long hearing on Sunday.

CAS said in a statement it had decided Valieva, 15, should be allowed to compete due to "exceptional circumstances," including specific provisions linked to her status as a "protected person" under the World Anti-Doping Code because she is a minor.

But despite helping the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) to gold in the team event, a medal ceremony for the event did not take place and the IOC said it would "not be appropriate" for it to go ahead until a full investigation has taken place.

The IOC also announced that if Valieva were to finish in the top three in the individual event — which takes place on Tuesday — no flower ceremony or medal ceremony would take place.

In the statement, the IOC said it will organize "dignified medal ceremonies once the case of Ms Valieva has been concluded."

Diversity among competitors, including LGBTQ+ athletes, at the Beijing Games is welcomed, according to China's first ever Winter Olympics gold medalist.

At the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, it was reported there were at least 186 athletes who identified as LGBTQ+.

However, it is reported that the Beijing Games will have a record number of out athletes for the Winter Games at 35 — yet, it looks like those Olympians may be performing in the shadow of growing challenges faced by sexual minorities and their supporters in China.

Homosexuality was removed from China's official list of mental disorders in 2001, but the LGBTQ+ community in China continues to face official harassment and same-sex marriage remains illegal across the country.

Asked by CNN's Angus Watson what measures were being taken to make sport a safe space for LGBTQ+ athletes, Yang Yang — who won five Olympic medals in speed skating — says China welcomes the "representation of different groups of people."

"Under Chinese law, we protect the rights of all groups of people," Yang, who is also the head of the Beijing 2022 Athletes’ Commission, told reporters.

"Of course, it's case by case decision. At our Athletes' Commission, a lot of them are young athletes, and a lot of the athletes have experience four to five Olympic Games, so we very much protect and encourage diversity."

In response to Watson's question of whether China would welcome an openly gay athlete onto its team, Yang said: "If there should be any such specific cases, the Athletes' Commission would be very happy to talk to these people from different groups and we absolutely support diversity. Thank you very much."

Find out more about LGBTQ+ visibility at the Games here.