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NHL players will not attend the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the league announced on Wednesday. The league said the decision was made due to the disruption in the regular-season schedule as a result of the rising number of COVID-19 cases throughout the league. “Given the profound disruption to the NHL’s regular-season schedule caused by recent COVID-related events — […] […]

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Most access to a major city adjacent to Beijing was suspended Thursday as China tried to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious omicron variant, which poses a test to its “zero-tolerance” COVID-19 policy and its ability to successfully host the Winter Olympics. Tianjin, a port and manufacturing center with 14 […]

IT IS BARELY 60 days until the ‘simple, safe and splendid’ Winter Olympic Games that President Xi Jinping promised eight months ago are due to open in Beijing under the totally apolitical slogan of ‘Together for a Shared Future’. Despite the advent of the Omicron Covid-19 variant, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, neatly picking up […]

Andre M Chang/Zuma Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock In response to the Chinese human rights violations in Xinjiang, the United States White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki released a statement on December 6, 2021, that the United States will move forward on their diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics. Following the lead of the […]

New Zealand diplomats will not attend the Beijing Olympics, said Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson. He linked this decision to the spread of the coronavirus and the logistical difficulties it caused. “We have already made it clear that we will not be present there at the ministerial level. There were many factors, but mostly due […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that the United States was weighing a diplomatic boycott of next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing over China’s human rights abuses, a move that would keep American dignitaries, but not athletes, from the games. Speaking to reporters as he hosted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the […]

The United States (US) is considering a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics, President Joe Biden confirmed, as the move would be aimed at protesting China’s human rights record, including what Washington says is genocide against minority Muslims. A diplomatic boycott would mean that US officials would not attend the opening of the Beijing Winter […]

U.S. government officials will boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing because of China’s human rights “atrocities”, the White House said on Monday, just weeks after talks aimed at easing tense relations between the two superpowers.The diplomatic boycott, which leaves athletes free to travel to Beijing to compete, has been encouraged by some members of […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The NHL will withdraw from the Winter Olympics after the regular-season schedule was disrupted by coronavirus outbreaks, a person with direct knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the announcement had yet to be made on the […]

A.M. Edition for Feb. 1. Four years ago, Coca-Cola, Visa and Procter & Gamble loudly promoted their sponsorship of the Winter Olympics.  Now, sponsors of the coming Beijing Games are keeping a lower profile. WSJ’s Stu Woo explains why that is, and why other coming international competitions present a similar challenge. Luke Vargas hosts. Morning […]

Cody Winters, Steamboat Springs [related_articles location=”right” show_article_date=”false” article_type=”automatic-primary-tag”] Specialty: Parallel giant slalom Age: 21 BEIJING OLYMPICS: Here are the Colorado athletes competing in the Winter Games The Steamboat Springs native is making his Olympic debut in Beijing. Winters finished second in the national championships last March. “Olympics is the highest that the sport goes; it’s […]

China Media Group has launched CCTV-8K, an 8K ultra-high-definition TV channel, to broadcast the upcoming 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, state-owned news agency Xinhua reports. To deliver the channel, CMG had to accelerate development of its nascent 8K production, broadcasting and transmission operations, said the Asian Broadcasting Union. CMG has started to install giant 8K screens […]

Canada is joining the United States and other western countries in declaring a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday that Canada will ban government officials from attending Beijing’s winter games, which begin in less than two months. “We are extremely concerned by the repeated human rights violations by the […]

Japan’s national broadcaster NHK also confirmed the report saying Tokyo “is leaning toward not sending cabinet ministers to the upcoming Beijing Olympics Senior japanese officials to skip Beijing Olympics.

The ‘genocide’ Olympics as Beijing’s winter feste was dubbed by Joe Biden is kicking off this Friday. There will be fewer governments represented, following a series of diplomatic boycotts because of alleged human rights abuses, especially towards the ethnic Uyhgur population in Xinjiang. But there has been no full boycotts of athletes. Because of covid […]

(Bloomberg)—After the opening ceremony at the Tokyo Olympics last summer, NBC, the official broadcaster of the event in the U.S., reported some viewers were “confused” at the order by which the teams entered. That’s because the participating teams didn’t enter according to the English alphabetical order, but by the order set in the Japanese language. […]

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that the Biden administration would not be sending any diplomatic representation to the Beijing Winter Olympics in protest of “human rights abuses.” She added that athletes could still compete and would have the full support of the country.» Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC» Watch more NBC video: […]

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Olympic skier Alex Ferreira tells CBS News that he took care of his mental health and kept training in the four years since he won a silver medal in PyeongChang. Now, he’s medal favorite again and chasing the gold in Beijing. CBS News Streaming Network is the premier 24/7 anchored streaming news service from CBS […]