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Hafez, who is from Cairo and was appearing at her third Olympics, said "pride fills my being" after taking to the piste while expecting.

Sorry scenes of a thin white strip of artificial piste snaking down an otherwise brown or green mountain have prompted questions over whether the days of alpine skiing as we know it might be numbered.

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Smirnova sat on a chair on the piste in an apparent protest over the handshake.

Smirnova remained on the piste for over half an hour after the incident, speaking with a number of officials before leaving.