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This week, a mother and son representing Team Mexico will compete in alpine skiing, becoming the first mother-son pair to ever appear at the same Winter Games.
The 46-year-old mom, Sarah Schlepper, is in her seventh Olympics.
Her 18-year-old son, Lassa, is competing in his first.
She told The Times, We were training together and we were trying to beat each other, so that was pretty fun.
It feels iconic.
And last one.
An athlete from Ukraine, a skeleton racer, says he's going to defy Olympic organizers who told him he couldn't wear a helmet decorated with pictures of Ukrainians killed in the war with Russia.
Olympic officials say the helmet violates the game's ban on political speech and suggested he wear a solid black armband instead.
The athlete dismissed that and said there are not enough black armbands in all of Cortina to honor the dead.
He said he's willing to risk being disqualified and that he will wear the helmet during training today and in races later this week.
Those are the headlines.
Today on The Daily, a deeper look at the TrumpRx site, which went up last week with the promise of saving Americans money on their prescriptions.
You can listen to that in the New York Times app or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Tracy Mumford.
We'll be back tomorrow.
From The New York Times, it's The Headlines.
I'm Tracy Mumford.
Today's Tuesday, February 10th.
Here's what we're covering.
The agent who opened fire was from... Over the past year, there have been 16 shootings by federal immigration agents as they've been patrolling U.S.