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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?

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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…

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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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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.

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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

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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

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."

The Independent UK

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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

The Independent UK

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.

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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

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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…

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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

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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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Beijing Olympics Closes after Golden Moments and Doping Storm

The Beijing Winter Olympics have closed with IOC chief Thomas Bach hailing a smoothly run event and a "safe Games" in the midst of the Covid pandemic, but the gold medals were overshadowed by a doping controversy.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Curolling on a roll in Shizuoka Pref.

Curolling, an indoor sport resembling curling but played on ordinary floors instead of ice, is becoming increasingly popular in Shizuoka Prefecture, partly due to the popularity of curling at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Japan's snowboarding medal wins at Beijing Olympics sparking interest in the sport

An increasing number of people are becoming interested in snowboarding after watching Japanese snowboarders win medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

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COVID-affected Beijing Games should not detract from a thrilling Winter Olympics

The Beijing Winter Olympics were shaped inexorably by the COVID-19 prevention measures put in place, but this did not stop the Games from delivering countless performances that will go down in history, writes Simon Smale.

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Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics closing ceremony: the parade of nations, the handover to Milan-Cortina, the farewell and the fireworks, as it happened

The Winter Olympics come to an end with an emotional ceremony in Beijing, following the handover to the next hosts in Milan-Cortina. Follow our live blog.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Athletes achieve great feats, but Games leave unpleasant aftertaste

The Beijing Winter Olympics end today. The athletes should be commended for their energetic performances in a difficult environment, in which measures against infection were still in place. At the same time, however, they also were an event in which mismanagement and confusing decisions left an unpleasant aftertaste.

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