Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting clinches first Olympic medal amid outcry tied to gender misconceptions

Boxer Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan clinched her first Olympic medal yesterday in front of a crowd that chanted her name, one day after fellow boxer Imane Khelif

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 impassioned

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 Committee

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 has

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 share memorable

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 case

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 even

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

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

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

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 difficult

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 in

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

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

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

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

Beijing 2022 | China wins first gold of home Olympics in short track relay

Darting through traffic, zipping around tight turns, avoiding potential disaster with every relay exchange. China eked out its first gold medal of the Beijing Games, winning the

Xinhua Insight | Coinciding with Spring Festival, Beijing 2022 celebrates togetherness

Many Chinese New Year customs have been widely observed for thousands of years. The family reunion dinner, pasting couplets and setting off fireworks are must-dos during

China invests billions on Olympics with longer-term goal

The finance model for the Winter Olympics calls for the host country to spend several billion dollars, the IOC to earn a couple billion, and sports

Beijing wants US halt Olympics interference; implement consensus

China is demanding the U.S. end “interference” in the Beijing Winter Olympics, which begin next week, in an apparent reference to a diplomatic boycott imposed by Washington

Beijing Olympics | Snowboarding | Tough trip to China ahead, Anderson sees gift of world stage

There is part of Jamie Anderson that wishes these upcoming Olympics weren’t in China. The two-time snowboard gold medalist knows she’s not the only Olympian who

Beijing residents disappointed Olympics will be closed event

With just over two weeks before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, residents of the Chinese capital say they’re disappointed at not being able to

Beijing Winter Olympics bid highlights skiing, hockey growth

Clad in neon-green from head to toe, Chinese snowboarder He Qiang is part of a growing cohort of middle-class enthusiasts in a country with little tradition of winter sports but that

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