| Rank | Keyword | Freq Tar | Freq Ref | Keyness (Likelihood) |
| 1 | Beijing | 575 | 18 | 2905.893 |
| 2 | Olympic | 507 | 8 | 2620.367 |
| 3 | China | 416 | 79 | 1793.111 |
| 4 | games | 381 | 53 | 1715.206 |
| 5 | medal | 311 | 11 | 1562.208 |
| 6 | Valieva | 129 | 0 | 686.826 |
| 7 | won | 250 | 248 | 676.870 |
| 8 | covid | 113 | 0 | 601.617 |
| 9 | champion | 124 | 20 | 547.043 |
| 10 | Russian | 139 | 56 | 514.336 |
| 11 | ski | 88 | 6 | 424.730 |
| 12 | skater | 73 | 2 | 370.465 |
| 13 | Norway | 69 | 1 | 356.984 |
| 14 | Shiffrin | 66 | 0 | 351.349 |
| 15 | positive | 118 | 109 | 329.676 |
| 16 | IOC | 57 | 0 | 303.431 |
| 17 | speedskating | 58 | 1 | 298.762 |
| 18 | Xi | 53 | 3 | 259.173 |
| 19 | Switzerland | 52 | 5 | 243.651 |
| 20 | Japan | 64 | 24 | 241.046 |
| 21 | pandemic | 49 | 4 | 233.057 |