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The Latest Breaking News from Beijing Winter Olympics

U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Team Finally Receives Gold Medals

U.S. figure skating team awarded gold after Russian doping scandal at 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

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Hydrogen-powered buses now on roads of Beijing Winter Olympics co-host city

SHIJIAZHUANG: Nearly a year after the city of Zhangjiakou in north China's Hebei Province co-hosted the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, 444 hydrogen-powered buses have become the preferred mode of public transport for locals. These buses were first used for the Olympics.

Bangkok Post

Takagi named Japan Sports Awards' Grand Prix winner

Speed skater Miho Takagi, who earned four medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics in February, including the gold in the women's 1,000 meters, was named the winner of the Grand Prix award at the 71st Japan Sports Awards on Monday.

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Aerial skiier and Olympian Laura Peel on how to move on after your dream is dashed

Laura Peel was headed into the Beijing Winter Olympics, confident of a gold medal, when a change in the weather upset her dreams. So, nine months later, how is she coping?

ABC News

Reigning world champion Sakamoto wins Skate America title

New York (AFP) - Reigning world champion Kaori Sakamoto of Japan, bronze medalist at this year's Beijing Winter Olympics, won the Skate America women's title on Sunday by capturing the free skate.

AFP

Russian agency says Valieva doping probe results will be 'confidential'

Moscow (Russia) (AFP) - Russia's anti-doping agency said Friday that it will not reveal the verdict in the case of figure skater Kamila Valieva, who became the centre of a doping scandal at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

AFP

Beijing Marathon to Return after 2-Year Covid Hiatus

Thousands of runners will line up for the Beijing marathon in November after a two-year Covid pause, organizers said, as sporting events gradually return to China. The world's most populous country has cancelled almost all international sports competitions since Covid emerged there in 2019, with the Beijing Winter Olympics in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Figure skaters' minimum age for top competitions will rise to 17 after scandal

The move comes months after Russia's Kamila Valieva, then 15, was caught in a storm of controversy at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

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Putin says Valieva could not have won skating gold 'dishonestly'

Moscow (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday defended Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, who was at the centre of a doping scandal at the Beijing Winter Olympics, saying she could not have won gold "dishonestly".

AFP

Arif Khan: A Kashmiri youth’s struggle for Olympic dream

Despite lack of funding and infrastructure at home, Arif Khan participated in the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Al Jazeera

China used TV, TikTok stars in discreet Olympics campaign

A “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” TV star, a Paralympic swimmer and a self-described “brand king” were among the Instagram and TikTok influencers who were paid by Chinese officials for a discreet campaign that promoted the Beijing Winter Olympics, new Justice Department documents reveal

The Independent UK

Kamila Valieva to return at Russian-only event after doping case rocked Winter Olympics

Figure skater Kamila Valieva helped Russia to team gold at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, but it was then confirmed the teenager had tested positive for a banned substance

Daily Mirror

Local govts try to ride X-sports popularity

At the Beijing Winter Olympics skateboard and snowboard double-threat Ayumu Hirano soared to gold in the men's snowboard halfpipe. His success, among other brilliant results achieved by Japanese athletes in both Beijing and at the Tokyo Summer Games, has helped X-sports popularity explode.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Remarkable Shiffrin wins overall World Cup title

Courchevel (France) (AFP) - American skier Mikaela Shiffrin won the women's overall World Cup title for the fourth time in her career on Thursday, bouncing back from a disastrous performance at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

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Shiffrin wins overall World Cup alpine ski title

The Independent UK

China denies asking Russia not to invade until post-Olympics

China is denouncing a report that it asked Russia to delay invading Ukraine until after the Beijing Winter Olympics as “fake news."

Asharq Al-Awsat

North Korea Hails 'Significant' Test in Satellite Development

North Korea said it had carried out a test of "great significance" for developing a reconnaissance satellite, state media reported Monday, a day after Seoul said it had detected a ballistic missile launch. Despite sweeping international sanctions, Pyongyang carried out a record-breaking blitz of weapons tests in January before pausing…

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North Korea fires ballistic missile, restarting weapons tests blitz

Seoul (AFP) - North Korea fired a ballistic missile Sunday, Seoul said, resuming a weapons-testing blitz after a month-long lull during the Beijing Winter Olympics, with the world's attention now focused on Ukraine.

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The Independent UK

NBC's scores are in: Record low Olympics ratings

NBC will be happy to put the Beijing Winter Olympics in the rear-view mirror, as the event had a record low viewership for an American audience and the Olympics

Reuters

Activists urge UN rights chief to release delayed report on Xinjiang

Now that the Beijing Winter Olympics is over, U.N. rights chief Michelle Bachelet must release her long-delayed report on alleged violations in China's Xinjiang region against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.

Benzinga

Ouch! NBC's Winter Olympics Coverage Down 42% From Four Years Earlier

The Beijing Winter Olympics was anything but a gold medal performance for Comcast Corp.’s (NASDAQ: CMCSA) NBCUniversal division, with viewership down 42% from the 2018 games held in PyeongChang, South Korea.

Caixin Global

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

The Conversation

Why Vladimir Putin is so confident in his Ukraine strategy – he has a trump card in China

The Beijing Winter Olympics will be remembered not just for China’s efforts to impress the world amid criticisms of its human rights record. The games were also held against the backdrop of the most dramatic escalation of strategic tensions between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold…

The Guardian - UK

Journalists’ group ‘dismayed’ by treatment at Beijing Winter Olympics

Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China says reporters tailed and manhandled by security despite assurances from Games officials

Tribune News Service

Xi counts some diplomatic wins after polarizing Winter Olympics

The Beijing Winter Olympics ended Sunday without a major protest, diplomatic incident, virus debacle or war in Ukraine. For Chinese President Xi Jinping, that’s about as good as could be expected.

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