The Latest Breaking News from Winter Olympics

The games are in a moral quandary: promoting safe sex – and social distancing. But will the athletes heed advice and treat their free contraceptives as souvenirs?

Beijing reported 14 local confirmed COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the highest daily count in its current outbreak, less than two weeks before the Winter Olympics are due to commence in the Chinese capital and in neighboring Hebei province. The number of domestically spread infections with confirmed symptoms in Beijing reported…

Beijing residents are coping with abrupt local lockdowns and sweeping COVID-19 testing requirements as the Chinese capital seeks to prevent a coronavirus outbreak ahead of the opening of the Winter Olympics in less than two weeks

Only one of 21 previous locations would be able to reliably host Games in future if emissions remain on current path, study shows

Police launch an urgent appeal to help locate a 24-year-old former Winter Olympics hopeful who has been reported missing.

Flying chartered is a luxury often reserved for rock stars and royalty. But China’s approach to Covid, with officials determined to stamp out the virus, means that most of the 3,000 or so skiers, snowboarders, skaters and bobsleigh riders descending on Beijing for the Winter Olympics next month will be…

‘While our people suffer in camps and in prison we can’t enjoy the game even if we want to. It hurts’

Several countries have opted against sending diplomatic delegations to the Games

Countries such as Haiti and Saudi Arabia are set to make their first appearance at a Winter Olympics