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Olympics-Beijing torch begins COVID-shortened relay

Beijing's COVID-shortened Olympic torch relay began on Wednesday with basketball great Yao Ming and a Chinese soldier wounded in a bloody 2020 border clash with India among the first to carry the symbolic flame on a journey that will last only three days.

Reuters

Beijing starts low-key torch relay for Winter Olympics

2022 Games takes place inside a ‘closed loop’ bubble that seals off athletes, Olympics personnel and selected guests.

Al Jazeera

For Taiwan's Olympics team, everything is in a name

For Taiwan, every appearance on the global stage is fraught with politics — and even more so when that stage is China

The Independent UK

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Shortened Olympic torch relay starts for Beijing Games

The three-day torch relay for the Beijing Olympics has started with an 80-year-old former speedskater carrying the flame

The Independent UK

U.S. curling, overhauled and powered by Minnesotans, ready for Olympics

Every four years, Americans get fired up for curling. Can't get enough of it.

Tribune News Service

Helene Elliott: Nathan Chen's quest for gold motivated by fulfillment and joy, not redemption

Nathan Chen wasn't quite 3 years old when the 2002 Olympics took place in his hometown of Salt Lake City but he remembers being fascinated by the figure skaters who were soaring and spinning across the TV screen. Later, at a rink near his home, he'd pretend to be competing…

Los Angeles Times

How snowboarding became a marquee event at the Winter Olympics – but lost some of its cool factor in the process

The mass appeal of creative, youth-oriented events such as snowboarding and freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics is a virtual case study of how the once radical can go mainstream.

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Figure skater Kailani Craine prepares for second shot at Winter Olympic dream

Figure skater Kailani Craine is in career-best form ahead of the Winter Olympics after being forced into a new routine to avoid COVID.

ABC News

Where was the first Winter Olympics held and where will the next one be?

Norway topped the medal table at the first ever Winter Olympics - almost 100 years ago

The Independent UK

When is Winter Olympics opening ceremony and how can I watch it

Everything you need to know ahead of the opening ceremony

The Independent UK

Why the Winter Olympics are so vital to the Chinese Communist Party's legitimacy

Aside from fake snow and COVID-19, the Beijing Winter Games are controversial for many reasons.

The Conversation

How will China handle the dual threats of COVID and political protests at the Winter Olympics?

The Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics start on Friday – the first time in history the same city has hosted both the summer and winter games.

The Conversation

9 Team USA Olympic champions looking to defend gold at the Beijing Winter Games

Go for gold! (Again!)

USA Today Sports Media Group

Australian curling team set to start Beijing Winter Olympics competition before opening ceremony

Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt will take to the ice later today to kick off Australia's Winter Olympics campaign, before the Games' showy opening number.

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The biggest superstars and storylines to watch at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games

A US star coping with the weight of expectation, a dual Chinese-American teen soaring to new heights, and some speedy Dutch skaters aiming to make history are some of the storylines to watch during this Winter Olympics.

Daily Record

Scottish curlers Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds lift lid on ice-cool strategy that can fire them to Winter Olympic glory

The Team GB duo will become the first British athletes to compete in the mixed doubles event when they take on Sweden this afternoon

Daily Mirror

Inside arriving for Winter Olympics including nose bleeds from swabs and burner phones

Chinese authorities are being extra careful when it comes to Covid ahead of the Winter Olympics 2022 - as Mirror man Alex Spink found out on his arrival to Beijing

Axios

COVID threatens China's Olympic prestige

Empty stadiums, a ban on foreign visitors and a move to streaming will dim the spotlight on China.

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Los Angeles Times

Feel Guilty Games: China human rights issues have forever marked the Beijing Olympics

The rulebook for the Olympics — called the Olympic Charter — contains numerous bylaws meant to foster "political neutrality." No protesting on the field of play, no wearing of symbols or flashing hand gestures. That sort of thing.

The Independent UK

British hopefuls chase Olympic curling glory in Beijing

Rhona Martin led Great Britain to gold in Salt Lake City 20 years ago - with several other memorable moments coming along the way

The Independent UK

Ellia Smeding looking to put long-track speed-skating in limelight at Winter Olympics

The 23-year-old is set to become the first female to represent Great Britain in the event in 42 years

Reuters

Olympics-Rule 50 on political protests a conundrum for athletes in Beijing

Athletes considering staging political protests during the Beijing 2022 Winter Games will have to negotiate the International Olympic Committee's Rule 50 which originally banned such behaviour but now offers more freedom.

The Independent UK

Fearless Katie Ormerod ready to seize moment at Beijing’s ‘spectacular’ slopestyle course

The 24-year-old is eager to banish memories of her injury-hit Olympic training four years ago in pursuit of a medal in Beijing

The Independent UK

AP PHOTOS: China celebrates Lunar New Year ahead of Olympics

The Lunar New Year in China and the Winter Olympics in Beijing get started only days apart this year.

The Independent UK

Fear no longer a factor for freestyle skier James Woods ahead of third Winter Olympics

The 30-year-old says he was ‘scared of everything’ as a shy kid growing up in Sheffield

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