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The Latest Breaking News from Beijing

Australian curler withdraws from Beijing Olympics with positive Covid test

The Australian Olympic Committee confirmed Tahli Gill returned a series of positive results late on Saturday.

The Independent UK

Winter Olympics: British curlers sink China 6-5 in Beijing

A win over Norway later on Sunday would secure them a semi-final slot

The Independent UK

Snowboarder Julia Marino wins Team USA’s first medal of Beijing Olympics with surprise slopestyle silver

Team USA has its first medal in Beijing!

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U.S. Olympian dilemma: Protest China's human rights abuses, or just play?

BEIJING – Noah Hoffman understands the desire to speak up. For the athletes competing at the Beijing Olympics, the Winter Games will provide a global megaphone, a platform to voice their concerns about human rights abuses in China.

Tribune News Service

Olympics Live: Men's downhill postponed due to high winds

The start of the men’s downhill at the Beijing Games has been postponed because of high winds

The Independent UK

Helene Elliott: U.S. women's hockey team adjusts without Brianna Decker, wins second game, 5-0

BEIJING — No matter what came at them, no matter how many of their pre-Olympic plans were shredded by the impact of the coronavirus, the mantra of the U.S. women's hockey team has remained the same: Adjust and adapt.

Los Angeles Times

Winter Olympics day two: curling, ski jumping, luge and freestyle skiing – as it happened

Team GB face Norway in mixed doubles and there are medals up for grabs in the luge, moguls and ski jumping. Join Martin Belam for the latest

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Beijing 2022: Kilmarnock speed skating ace Kathryn Thomson falls just 15 seconds into Winter Olympics opener

The 26-year-old was left frustrated that her race wasn't restarted, writes James Toney.

Daily Record

La Velle E. Neal III: U.S. mixed doubles curling team trying to get on the same page

BEIJING — The mixed doubles curling team of Vicky Persinger and Chris Plys has not played up to its capabilities. That makes Team USA a potential threat as they look to advance out of round-robin play and into the semifinals of the Olympic tournament.

Tribune News Service

Jessie Diggins finishes sixth in skiathlon, first race of loaded Beijing Games

ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Jessie Diggins didn't win a medal Saturday in her first race of the Beijing Olympics. That was hard to tell from her upbeat mood after a sixth-place finish in the women's 15-kilometer skiathlon.

Tribune News Service

Ecuador sees trade deal with China at end of year, debt talks to begin

Ecuador expects to pull together a trade deal with China at the end of this year and will begin formal debt re-negotiations with the Asian country, Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso said on Saturday, after a Beijing visit with his counterpart Xi Jinping.

Reuters

China’s Xi Meets More Heads of State in Winter Games Diplomatic Push

Chinese President Xi Jinping met the leaders of several more countries on Saturday as Beijing used the start of the Winter Olympics to score diplomatic points amid simmering tensions with the United States. Following a groundbreaking agreement with Russia on Friday over Taiwan and against NATO expansion, Xi held meetings…

Asharq Al-Awsat

WHO Chief Says Discussed Collaboration on COVID Origins with Chinese Premier

The head of the World Health Organization said on Saturday he had discussed with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang the need for stronger collaboration on the origins of COVID-19, a subject of controversy that has strained Beijing's relations with the West. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has previously pressed China to be more…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Heartbreak for Team GB’s Kathryn Thomson as she crashes on first corner at Beijing 2022

After four years of preparation, speed skater Thomson's first 2022 Winter Olympics event was over in less than 15 seconds as she hit the ice at the first corner

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Evening Standard

Winter Olympics 2022: China win first gold, plus latest Team GB news, results and medal table

Hosts China won their first gold medal of the Winter Olympics in Beijing as they swept to victory in speed skating’s short track mixed team relay.

ABC News

Matt Graham's Winter Olympic tears after his moguls disappointment make way for utter jubilation from young star Cooper Woods-Topalovic

Matt Graham could have made excuses for the Olympic-sized heartbreak that was etched all over his face in Beijing. It's a testament to him that he didn't.

Wales Online

Olympic champion Amy Williams reveals her one key wish for Team GB as Beijing 2022 gets underway

Mere hundredths of a second will decide who gets gold, silver and bronze on Beijing's slopes and slides

Daily Record

Kilmarnock speed skater Kathryn Thomson left fuming after crashing out at Beijing 2022

Thomson, who also competes in the 1000m and 1500m, admitted frustration her 500m race wasn't restarted after spinning into the hoardings and pounding the ice in frustration

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The Independent UK

Olympic teams raise concerns over quarantine hotels

Some Olympic athletes unlucky enough to test positive for the coronavirus at the Beijing Olympics feel their quarantine conditions make a bad situation much worse

Daily Record

Cross-country skier Andrew Musgrave pinpoints his perfect Beijing conditions ahead of shot at Olympic glory

Musgrave will compete in the men's 30km skiathlon on Sunday, an event he finished seventh in four years ago in PyeongChang

The Independent UK

AP PHOTOS: Medals and more at Day 1 of the Beijing Olympics

Therese Johaug raised her arms overhead and smiled, her defeated foes left gasping for air on the ground behind her.

Sports Illustrated

2022 Winter Olympics Medal Count: How Each Country Has Fared in Beijing

Check out the overall medal count at the Beijing Games.

AAP

How Australians fared at the Winter Games

A look at how Australia's Winter Olympians fared on the first full day of competition at the Beijing Games.

The Independent UK

Winter Olympics: ‘Anxiety was crazy’ – Farrell Treacy recalls fraught road to Beijing start line

Treacy finished last in his four-man 1,000m heat at the Capital Indoor Arena after a torrid build-up which included an enforced 10 days of isolation.

Reuters

WHO chief says discussed collaboration on COVID origins with Chinese premier

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