It’s pretty amazing that, thus far, the most controversial doping charge in the 2018 games involves a Curler. (Maybe he though he could sweep it under the rug. Or maybe he just wanted to be included in the Curler Calendar…)

+ New Statesmen: Game of Stones: The power struggle at the heart of British curling.

+ “As long as skaters have performed in costumes, those costumes have betrayed them.” Slate: A gasp-filled history of skating wardrobe malfunctions.

+ “She’s here in South Korea anyway as part of the Hungarian delegation, the latest in a series of quixotic pursuits that include running for governor of California as a 19-year-old student at Berkeley to trying out for the Oakland Raiders cheerleading team to mounting a push to reach the Olympics as skeleton racer for Venezuela. She only started skiing eight years ago and only got serious about it after the skeleton thing didn’t take.” AP: Freestyle skier’s complex path offers Olympic Rorschach test. (To me, the ink blot looks like someone who should have stayed home.)

+ The weirdest thing I’ve seen at this Olympics: All those empty seats.