Tag: Beijing 2022
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Winter Olympic mascot linked to MUST
Liu Pingyun, chief executive of the team that designed one of the mascots for the Beijing Winter Olympics, worked on the project while he was studying ... -
As war rages, Paralympics open in Beijing without Russia
The Winter Paralympics opened Friday in Beijing with the Russian athletes sent home, the Ukrainian team escaping a war zone to get to China and an ... -
Russians, Belarusians compete as ‘neutral athletes’ in China
Russians and Belarusians at the Winter Paralympics in Beijing will compete as “neutral athletes” because of their countries’ roles in the war against Ukraine, the International ... -
Ukraine’s 20 Paralympic athletes have yet to arrive in China
None of the 20 athletes from the Ukrainian Paralympic team has reached Beijing with the Games opening at the end of the week, the International Paralympic ... -
China keeps promises as Winter Olympics draws to ‘triumphant’ close
The Olympic flame has been extinguished, bringing down the curtain on the Beijing 2022 Winter Games, but the passion still lingers from the sports gala that ... -
Samaranch voted back on IOC executive board at Beijing Games
The International Olympic Committee member who oversaw preparations for the Beijing Games was voted back onto the body’s executive board on Saturday. Juan Antonio Samaranch, whose ... -
Beijing Winter Olympics become most watched games in US despite ‘diplomatic boycott’
More than 100 million Americans have watched the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, where many U.S. athletes continue to show their talents, skills and sportsmanship, and ... -
Beijing 2022 | Valieva listed two legal oxygen boosters on Olympic forms
Two legal substances used to improve heart function are listed on an anti-doping control form filled out for Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva before her drug ... -
After blow of Beijing, Olympians ask: What about Africa?
Victory, of sorts, for Eritrea’s sole Winter Olympian — one of just six athletes competing for African countries at the Games in China — was achieved ... -
China crafts a carefully curated slate of Olympic spectators
A spectator’s single clap echoed through the mostly empty National Aquatics Center after the British curling team knocked a Swiss stone out of position, a difficult move ... -
Beijing 2022 | Norway takes Olympic gold medal in biathlon team relay
The Russians took the lead right at the start of the Olympic four-man biathlon relay yesterday and stayed well out front until a shooting meltdown at ... -
Beijing 2022 | Su joins Gu with Olympic big air gold for host China
China’s extreme sports youngsters were ready for a big Olympic stage. The host country built one for them, and they delivered. Su Yiming gave China its ... -
BEIJING SNAPSHOT | At Olympics, differing views of the news
Reporters from other countries and their Chinese counterparts seem to have different approaches to the daily news conferences at the Beijing Olympics. Yesterday’s briefing showcased the ... -
At Winter Olympics, virus fight waged with worker sacrifices
In her mind, Cathy Chen pictures a scene that she herself says could be drawn from a TV drama: Falling into the arms of her husband ... -
Analysis | Olympics distract from Chinese soccer’s puzzling predicament
One good outcome for men’s soccer in China is the timing of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, which has been a national distraction from another failed ... -
Beijing 2022 | Russian skater can compete, but medal ceremony won’t be held
Russian teenager Kamila Valieva has been cleared to compete in the women’s figure skating competition at the Winter Olympics despite failing a pre-Games drug test, setting ... -
Beijing 2022 | Eileen Gu advances on busy day of freestyle at Olympics
Trying for three gold medals in one Olympics is a hectic business. So it was no surprise that Eileen Gu was a skier in a hurry ... -
EXPLAINER | Halfway through Olympics, what’s happened so far?
Halfway through the world’s second pandemic Olympics, lots has happened. We have a doping scandal out of Russia, an American skier who faltered unexpectedly, and a ... -
Beijing Winter Olympics exceeds IOC expectations: Chairman
International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has said that the Olympic Games is perhaps the most complex event on the planet, like a huge and ... -
Beijing2022 | For the aged: Older Olympians in the medal mix, too
When the Beijing Olympics close on Feb. 20, IOC President Thomas Bach, by tradition, will call on the “youth of the world to assemble four years ... -
‘Politics of grandeur’: Two Olympics and China’s love of big
Tiananmen Square. The Forbidden City. The Great Wall. The Three Gorges Dam. Dozens of high-end malls in Beijing. China has thousands of years of doing things ... -
BEIJING DIARY | Testing positive at the no-Covid Olympics
The phone call comes in the early afternoon, six hours or so after the mandatory morning test. The number is immediately recognizable because it’s so strange: ... -
First Torch of Beijing Winter Games on display at Wynn
To promote the shared spirit of sportsmanship and the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Macau, Wynn has welcomed the first torch of the Beijing 2022 ... -
Beijing 2022 | Roundup of Olympic gold medals
Wednesday, Feb.9 ALPINE SKIING WOMEN’S SLALOM Petra Vlhova added an Olympic gold medal to her growing list of achievements, winning the women’s slalom at the Beijing ... -
Beijing 2022 | Shiffrin shaken by ‘letdown’ of 2 exits in 2 Olympic races
The first question posed to Mikaela Shiffrin as she met with reporters after her second consecutive quick exit from an Alpine skiing race at the Beijing ... -
Beijing 2022 | EXPLAINER | All those flips and twists on Olympic halfpipe
Australian snowboarder Scotty James calls the process of perfecting his signature trick on the halfpipe akin to a right-handed person “trying to write a thesis with ... -
Beijing 2022 | Praise for Eileen Gu breaks Chinese social media
Two American-born athletes competing for China. Two radically different reactions from Chinese social media to their performances at the Winter Olympics. As freestyle skier Eileen Gu ... -
Beijing 2022 | Chen flips, spins way to world-record score at Olympics
Nathan Chen flipped, whirled and even punched his way to a world-record score in the men’s figure skating short program at the Beijing Olympics. Next up ... -
SNAPSHOT | Olympic press can grab high-tech naps
With nowhere really to go, journalists inside the Beijing Olympics bubble are encouraged to sleep on the job. They can’t visit the village rooms where competitors ... -
Beijing 2022 | Shiffrin’s fall in Olympic giant slalom will stick with her
Mikaela Shiffrin will not soon forget what happened yesterday in her first race of the Beijing Olympics. The poor transition that came five turns, and about ... -
GLIMPSES | The vibe’s industrial chic at Olympic big air run
Canadian freestyle skier Elena Gaskell twists and bends backward to grab her ski as she takes flight off the end of a manufactured ramp covered in ... -
Beijing 2022 | US skating star Chen, Japanese rival Hanyu set for showdown
Nathan Chen had enough pressure on him heading into the men’s program at the Beijing Olympics: One of the faces of the NBC broadcast, he is ... -
Olympics Spotlight
Peng Shuai Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai has met with International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach in Beijing. The IOC says the meeting took place over ...
