Sign In NESN and Berkshire Bank celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month – honoring the impact, influence, and achievements of the Asian community in sports. At seemingly every turn in his figure skating career, Vincent Zhou has met some form of adversity. But the roadblocks only were temporary for Zhou, as with an incredible amount of determination the 21-year-old and and two-time U.S. Olympian persevered to become one of the top figure skaters in the world. Zhou’s latest obstacle came this past February at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Fresh off helping the U.S. claim ..read more

Sign In NESN and Berkshire Bank celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month – honoring the impact, influence, and achievements of the Asian community in sports. Nathan Chen is the No. 1 male figure skater in the world, a three-time world champion and an Olympic gold medalist, and he’s not even 23 yet. Chen was born in Salt Lake City, UT to Chinese-immigrant parents and is the youngest of five siblings. His family inspired him to sample various activities at a young age. Chen started skating at the age of three and he played hockey, pursued gymnastics and ballet and played piano, w ..read more

NESN Logo Sign In Those who want to get ahead of Thursday morning’s water cooler conversation can stay up late Wednesday night to see the gold medal awarded in women’s ice hockey at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. It’ll be Team USA against Team Canada in a rivalry game that is a rematch of the 2018 Pyeongchang gold medal final. At the last Olympics, the United States won in a 3-2 shootout. It also is a rematch of the women’s World Championship final in August, where the Canadians bested the U.S. in overtime. While the United States has only one loss throughout its time in Beijing, to — you guessed ..read more

NESN Logo Sign In Simone Biles had herself a pretty good Valentine’s Day. The four-time Olympic gold medal gymnast on Instagram announced her engagement to Houston Texans safety Jonathan Owens after nearly two years of dating. “THE EASIEST YES,” she captioned the post that included a photo of Owens proposing. “I can’t wait to spend forever & ever with you, you’re everything I dreamed of and more! let’s get married FIANCÉ.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Simone Biles (@simonebiles) The two met on a dating app and were able to get to know each other a bit more after COVID ..read more

NESN Logo Sign In Men’s hockey is underway at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, and local college players got their teams off to quite the start. With the NHL deciding to walk back its decision to allow players to compete at the Olympics amid the COVID-19 pandemic, teams are depending on top NCAA talent, as well as NHL alumni, in their quest for a gold medal. A slew of local players made the cut for Team USA: Harvard’s Sean Farrell and Nick Abruzzese joined Boston College’s Drew Helleson and Marc McLaughlin and Boston University’s Drew Commesso. On Team Canada, Northeastern goaltender Devon Levi join ..read more

NESN Logo Sign In Mikaela Shiffrin did not get off to the start she hoped for at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Shiffrin, the defending gold medalist in the giant slalom, will not have an opportunity to defend her Olympic title after the 26-year-old skied out during her first run of the event on Monday in Beijing. Because she did not complete the run, Shiffrin is disqualified and will not compete in the second run. Shiffrin fell and missed a gate early in her run. “I was attacking and just a small mistiming of when I set my edges and just slipped out,” Shiffrin said on NBC, via Karen Mizoguchi of ..read more

NESN Logo Sign In Team USA found itself down an important player in its preliminary round game in the 2022 Beijing Olympics against Finland on Thursday morning. Brianna Decker got tangled up with Ronja Savolainen behind Finland’s net and remained down for several minutes after her leg appeared to get caught under Savolainen’s. The assistant captain could be heard screaming after going down before a stretcher came out. The USA broadcast announced Decker, who’s participating in her third Olympics, would not return to the game. Decker won gold in 2018 in PyeongChang and silver in 2014 in Sochi. I ..read more

NESN Logo Sign In David Krejci has been enjoying success in Czech Republic, scoring goals at a near-career-high rate, and he’ll put his skills on display next month in Beijing. The former Boston Bruins center was named to the 2022 Beijing Olympics, which are set to take place next month, his new team Olomouc tweeted Thursday morning. “Olomouc forward David Krejčí was officially nominated for the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing today. Congratulations and we wish you a lot of hockey success!” the tweet read. Check out Czech’s full roster below: ? Takto vypadá nominace #narodnitym pro ZOH 2022 v ..read more

NESN Logo Sign In The 2022 Winter Olympics will go on as scheduled in Beijing, China. … Well, for now at least. With COVID-19 cases skyrocketing due to the new Omicron variant, some have wondered if a postponement of the games was necessary. The International Olympic Committee, however, made it clear Wednesday that they will go on as scheduled. The Beijing Games are set to kick off Feb. 4 but there still are plenty of questions surrounding the event including length of a quarantine, when an athlete can return to action after recovering from COVID-19. The Olympics already will look slightly dif ..read more

NESN Logo Sign In Team Canada clearly views Claude Julien highly, and with NHL personnel not taking part in the Olympics, it’ll be the ex-Montreal Canadiens boss behind the bench in Beijing. Tampa Bay Lightning coach Jon Cooper was tabbed to coach the Canadiens in the tournament, but when the NHL backed out, it left Canada with a vacancy to fill. According to NHL Insider John Shannon, it’ll be Julien taking over. Julien coached Team Canada in the Channel One Cup, and was supposed to coach them in the Spengler Cup later this month before they elected to back out over COVID-19 concerns. The 61-y ..read more