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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.

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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

The Independent UK

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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.

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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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

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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Hello from Beijing!

The Independent UK

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 Conversation

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 Guardian - AU

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Hello from Beijing!

The Independent UK

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 Guardian - AU

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

The Independent UK

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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Where Will the Next Winter Olympics Be Held? Future Sites We Know So Far

The Winter Games are headed to Italy in 2026.

Al Jazeera

How Beijing residents are taking a ‘closed-loop’ Winter Olympics

Beijing residents lament the absence of foreign spectators but say the Winter Games ambience is still there.

The Guardian - US

Winter Olympics day 10 – as it happened

Day ten of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games

The Independent UK

At Winter Olympics, virus fight waged with worker sacrifices

So athletes from countries where COVID-19 has raged can compete, China's Winter Games workforce is making a giant sacrifice

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Olympics - Coach defends skater Valieva, CAS to hold Sunday hearing on case

The Russian coach of the 15-year-old figure skater embroiled in an Olympic doping scandal broke her silence to defend Kamila Valieva on Saturday, while the sport's highest court said it would hold a hearing on Valieva's Winter Games future on Sunday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russian Skater Valieva Failed Drug Test Taken before Her Golden Games Debut

Figure skating sensation Kamila Valieva won a gold medal having earlier failed a drug test and Olympic officials will fight Russia's decision to let her compete at the Winter Games, the International Testing Agency (ITA) said on Friday. The 15-year-old's gold medal and Games future now hangs in the balance…

The Independent UK

On the ice, a question: Where are the Black figure skaters?

The Salchow jump, the Biellmann and the Charlotte spiral

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Olympics show complexity of sustainability claims

To stage the Winter Games in the Chinese capital, organizers embarked on a massive public works campaign, constructing new venues and piping millions of gallons of water up into the arid surrounding mountains to create fake snow for ski competitions

Al Jazeera

At Beijing 2022, ‘woke capital’ in awkward spot on human rights

Corporate sponsors at Olympic Winter Games are keeping low profile after championing social justice issues in the West.

The Guardian - US

Winter Olympics day six – as it happened

Day six of XXIV Olympic Winter Games

Asharq Al-Awsat

Mexican Skater Is a Rare Latin American at Winter Olympics

They said he should play football. They said figure skating was for girls.

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