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Added on the 19/01/2022 12:00:05 - Copyright : Euronews EN
US Olympic athlete Red Gerard became the youngest snowboarder ever to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics last weekend. Gerard was at the bottom of the table heading into the third and final trial, when he landed a clean run that pulled him straight up to the top spot on the podium. This was the first gold medal for the US delegation in the Pyeongchang Olympics.
As Olympic athletes were beginning their second official competition day in the 2018 Pyeongchang Games on Sunday, Korean humanoid robot skiers were still warming up at Welli Hill Park ski resort in Dunnae for a different competition - a slalom tournament. On the sidelines of the main human Olympics, the Korean government has organised Ski Robot Challenge, the world's first ever ski tournament for self-operational humanoid robots. The robots are to battle it out in the slalom discipline on Monday.
Akwasi Frimpong, the first ever skeleton racer from Ghana, spoke about his preparations for the Winter Olympics and how he hopes he can inspire a generation back home during an interview outside the Pyeongchang Olympic Village on Saturday. During the interview, Frimpong also said that this was the time to fight misconceptions about Africa, and that this period of momentum with so many teams hailing from the continent and beyond could inspire the next generation to be among the best. The 31-year old will be competing on February 15 and 16.
With creepy skeletal hands sticking out of the fence, occult statues making strange hand gestures, and demons guarding the roof, a spooky home in the Belarusian town of Ratomka wreaks of evil. The house belongs to a businessman based in the Belarussian city of Vitebsk who went through a nasty divorce and started decorating the property with all the satanic trappings.
A German tourist braved freezing conditions in Oymyakon, one of the coldest inhabited settlements in the world, on Thursday, as he took an icy dip into the river while air temperatures stood at -50° Celsius (-58° Fahrenheit). Ice-dipping is a long-held tradition among Orthodox Christians, for Epiphany Day, which is observed on January 19th in the Orthodox calender. It celebrates the baptism of Jesus Christ and is said to cleanse and purify the plunger.
Famed Tarot card reader Antonio Vazquez - better known as El Brujo Mayor, or the Grand Warlock in Spanish - has forecast that there will be no war between North Korea and the United States during his annual predictions in Mexico City on Thursday. With his long white beard and hair, Vasquez has become a celebrity in Mexico with his predictions which have not always proved to be flawless – in 2016, he predicted Trump would lose the Republican primary elections.