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🗓 This Past Weekend in Sports & Entertainment

Monday, Feb 14, 2022

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🥇 Olympics recap… With less than a week to go, Norway is leading both the overall medal count and total golds. Here’s what else you may have missed:

  • The Winter Games are on pace for their lowest viewership in history, pulling in just 12.3 million daily viewers (compared to 23 million for the 2018 edition).
  • News broke that 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva failed a pre-Olympic drug test in December; it’s unclear whether Russia will still get the gold in the team event or if Valieva will be allowed to compete individually tomorrow.
  • Snowboarder Shaun White finished his legendary career with a fourth-place finish in Beijing (video); Japan’s Ayumu Hirano took home the halfpipe gold.

🎮 High score… Korean MMO Lost Ark became the second most played video game in Steam history, amassing 1.3+ million concurrent players in less than 24 hours after being released on Friday.

🍿 If it bleeds, it leads… Disney’s Death on the Nile starring Gal Gadot led the domestic box office in its weekend debut, earning $12.8 million; Universal’s Marry Me with Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson opened to $8 million, narrowly placing third behind Jackass: Forever ($8.1 million).

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