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IPC bans Russians and Belarusians from 2022 Beijing Paralympic Winter Games

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) bowed to pressure on Thursday and banned Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2022 Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing as part of the continuing international boycott following the advance of Russian forces into Ukraine.

Radio France Internationale

Paralympian Marcel Hug says Winter Games decision is right but feels for athletes

The International Paralympic Committee made a dramatic U-turn on Thursday

The Independent UK

IPC’s Winter Games ruling ‘has put athletes in a very difficult spot’

Russians and Belarusians will be allowed to compete in Beijing despite the invasion of Ukraine

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Winter Paralympics: Russian athletes competing as neutral sparks backlash

The International Paralympic Committee will allow Russian athletes to compete at the Winter Games which begin in Beijing this week

The Guardian - UK

Russia’s participation in Winter Paralympic Games on a knife edge

The International Paralympic Committee has admitted it will have to be “very careful” in deciding whether to allow Russian athletes to compete at the Winter Games

The Guardian - UK

Unazuki aims to be mecca for ski mountaineering

The Unazuki hot spring ski resort in Kurobe, Toyama Prefecture, is aiming to become a mecca for ski mountaineering, or skimo, which will make its Olympic debut at the 2026 Winter Games in Italy.

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Unazuki hot spring resort aims to be mecca for ski mountaineering

The Unazuki hot spring ski resort in Kurobe, Toyama Prefecture, is aiming to become a mecca for ski mountaineering, or skimo, which will make its Olympics debut at the 2026 Winter Games in Italy

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Despite historic ratings low for the 2022 Winter Games, NBCUniversal remains bullish on Olympics

NEW YORK — Faced with the lingering effects of a global pandemic, empty stands and a politically fraught situation in Beijing, NBC Sports was prepared for the worst with the Winter Olympics, and from a TV ratings standpoint that’s what it got.

Los Angeles Times

Lewis Hamilton sends appreciation after speed skater’s tribute to F1 star at Winter Olympics

Canadian Olympic legend Charles Hamelin paid tribute to Lewis Hamilton with a specially-designed helmet at the Beijing 2022 Winter Games

Daily Mirror

Zhang Wenhong: Beijing Winter Olympics Sets Perfect Example for How to Bring People Together Amid Pandemic

The closed-loop management system of the winter games demonstrated a new possibility for pandemic control and communication among people from different part of the world

Caixin Global

Winter Olympics Deliver Smallest Viewing Audience Ever

This year’s ratings saw a sizable drop from the 2018 Winter Games, along with 2021’s Tokyo Games.

Sports Illustrated

Team GB fall short of Winter Olympic medal target despite curling continuing gold streak

Great Britain have struck gold at the last four Winter Games but UK Sport’s pre-Games target of three to seven medals was not met in Beijing

The Independent UK

Rachel Blount: Olympics contrasted success, safety, shortcomings, controversy

BEIJING – At Sunday's Closing Ceremony for the Beijing Olympics, the keynote speeches were stuffed with words like unity and togetherness and solidarity. While that wasn't surprising at an event that promotes shared ideals, it didn't reflect what made these Winter Games unique.

Tribune News Service

Human rights? China won that Winter Olympics battle. Almost.

At the Winter Games, host China succeeded in squelching public discussion by athletes of its human rights record

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Chicago Sun-Times

Beijing’s Winter Olympics close, ending safe but odd global moment

The next Olympics will be the Summer Games in Paris in 2024. Milan-Cortina in Italy will host the 2026 Winter Games.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Taiwan Premier Wants Athlete Punished for Wearing China Suit

Taiwan’s premier wants a Taiwanese Olympic speedskater to be punished for wearing what appeared to be a suit from rival China’s team during training. Symbols of the two sides are especially sensitive at a time when China's ruling Communist Party, which claims Taiwan as part of its territory, is trying…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

China's digital currency push faces uphill battle

BEIJING -- At Beijing Winter Games venues, China's digital currency has been designated as an official payment method.

Salon

8 biggest Beijing Olympics controversies

The Winter Games were already fraught from a human rights perspective, and these incidents didn't lift that shadow

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The Conversation

How climate change threatens the Winter Olympics' future – even snowmaking has limits for saving it

The Winter Olympics is an adrenaline rush as athletes fly down snow-covered ski slopes, luge tracks and over the ice at breakneck speeds and with grace.

The Guardian - AU

Two kids from one small town ski New Zealand to its greatest Games

Nico Porteous has dropped the curtain on New Zealand’s greatest ever Winter Games, overcoming the elements and a field of established champions to win the Olympic freeski halfpipe title

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - AU

Winter Olympics day 14: GB women into curling final – as it happened

Eve Muirhead and co set up a curling final against Japan after Eileen Gu won another gold medal for China, and ROC beat Sweden in the men’s hockey

The Independent UK

Gu breezes to gold in ski halfpipe, 3rd medal at Olympics

Eileen Gu captured Olympic gold in the women’s ski halfpipe final on a breezy and cold morning to become the first action-sports athlete to pick up three medals at the same Winter Games

Sports Illustrated

NHL Power Rankings: Each Team’s Greatest Olympian

Let’s take a trip down memory lane of when household NHL names were in the Olympic tournament.

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