Beijing Winter Olympics China

STARK CONTRAST In recent years, the country with a population of 1.4 billion has recruited some foreign-born athletes to boost its national squads, notably for football and ice hockey. China are by no means the only ones to do it, but the…

BEIJING: Teenager Eileen Gu nailed a new trick in the final run of the freeski Big Air on Tuesday (Feb 8), delivering host nation China its quickest gold rush at a Winter Games. The Chinese capital claimed the San Francisco-born Gu as a…

IOC President Thomas Bach has repeatedly defended his organisation's choice for the 2022 Olympics, saying the IOC was not a political body nor was its mandate to influence laws in sovereign states. He said on Thursday that in the two years…

YANQING: When the alpine skiers take to the piste at the Beijing Winter Olympics this week, they will do so on artificial snow in an often drought-ridden region. To the outsider, the idea of hosting ski events in Yanqing, in a largely…

LONDON: Amnesty International warned on Wednesday (Jan 19) that the international community must not allow China to use the Winter Olympics in Beijing as a "sportswashing opportunity" and must avoid being "complicit in a propaganda…