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(From left) Beijing Winter Paralympic Games cross-country skiing men’s sprint sitting final event silver medallist Mao Zhongwu, gold medallist Zheng Peng and bronze medallist Collin Cameron at the Zhangjiakou Biathlon Centre. Photo: Reuters
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China extends lead in Winter Paralympics medal table with two more golds

Zheng Peng and Yang Hongqiong win respective men’s and women’s sprint sitting events at Beijing 2022 to take China to 10 gold medals in overall tally.

Beijing Winter Olympics 2022

5 things to watch on Day 10 at the Winter Olympics

Beijing Winter Olympics 2022

The coronavirus fear stalking athletes at the Winter Olympics

Beijing Winter Olympics 2022

Explainer | Winter Olympics: everything you need to know about bobsleigh

From Beijing 2022 contenders to origins of the sport, here’s everything you need to know about one of the most intense competitions on the Winter Olympics programme.

Great Britain’s team in action during the men’s 4-Bob World Cup in St Moritz, Switzerland, on January 16, 2022. Photo: Mayk Wendt/Keystone via AP
Great Britain’s team in action during the men’s 4-Bob World Cup in St Moritz, Switzerland, on January 16, 2022. Photo: Mayk Wendt/Keystone via AP
Beijing Winter Olympics 2022

Explainer | Everything you need to know about skeleton, from Beijing contenders to who invented it

Here’s everything you need to know about the extreme sledding sport, from Beijing 2022 contenders to who invented it.

Beijing Winter Olympics 2022

Profile | Why was China’s best skeleton rider left out of the Winter Olympics?

Inner Mongolia native Geng Wenqiang won China’s first World Cup gold medal last year, but failed to fulfil his ‘Beijing dream’ after an internal selection process.

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Explainer | Everything you need to know about Luge and its 15th century origins

Here’s everything you need to know about the winter sport of luge, from the top contenders at Beijing 2022, to its 15th century origins.

Germany’s Natalie Geisenberger takes part in the women’s singles luge training session at the Yanqing National Sliding Centre. Photo: AFP
Germany’s Natalie Geisenberger takes part in the women’s singles luge training session at the Yanqing National Sliding Centre. Photo: AFP
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Meylemans ‘feels safe’, thanks fans after moving into Olympic Village

Belgian skeleton rider Kim Meylemans gets room in isolation wing of Beijing 2022 Athletes’ Village after viral video documenting quarantine ordeal.

Beijing Winter Olympics 2022

IOC intervenes as Belgian athlete breaks down in Beijing 2022 isolation

Tearful skeleton racer Kim Meylemans posts emotional video documenting ordeal after being taken to a fresh quarantine facility instead of Olympic Village, despite negative PCR tests.

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Hong Kong Olympic skier Audrey King tests positive for Covid-19

The 19-year-old tests positive for the coronavirus twice upon landing in Beijing from the team’s training camp in Bosnia, as close contact teammate Adrian Yung and head coach Marko Rudic test negative.

Hong Kong team representative skiers Audrey King (left) and Adrian Yung Hau-tsuen are going to compete at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Photo: Skiing Association of Hong Kong
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The teen stars among China’s top 10 medal hopes at Winter Olympics

From poster girl skier Eileen Gu to little-known skeleton trailblazer Geng Wenqiang, China has several athletes to pin their podium hopes on for their home Winter Games.

(From left) Eileen Gu Ailing, Geng Wenqiang and Gao Yingyu of China. Photo: AFP, AP
(From left) Eileen Gu Ailing, Geng Wenqiang and Gao Yingyu of China. Photo: AFP, AP
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Covid-19 strikes Olympic hopefuls leaving their Beijing Games in doubt

Norwegian skiers, US and Russian bobsledders, Swiss ice hockey team all return positive tests throwing plans into disarray.

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CrossFit’s Toomey won’t compete at Winter Olympics despite qualifying

Australian selection committee decides not to pick five-time ‘Fittest Woman on Earth’ Tia-Clair Toomey for Winter Olympics bobsleigh event.

Beijing Winter Olympics 2022

Hong Kong’s Olympians urge Beijing 2022 trio to recall ‘blood, sweat and tears’

‘Remember every time you feel your legs burning, heart pounding, covered in sweat, that you signed up because you love the sport’, says Sochi 2014 skater Barton Lui, Hong Kong’s first male Winter Olympian.

Hong Kong short-track speed skater Barton Lui Pan-to (left) at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games and Hong Kong short-track speed skating team including Christy Ren (right) before the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Photos: Xinhua, SCMP
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Hong Kong athletes to perform best ‘athletically, morally’ at Winter Olympics

City to send 13-strong delegation, with athletes Sidney Chu, Audrey King and Arian Yung joined by Sports Federation and Olympic Committee chiefs, headquarter officials and medical staff, with requirements ‘more or less’ similar to last year’s Tokyo Games.

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games representative short track speed skater Sidney Chu (centre) with chef de mission Karl Kwok Chi-leung (left) and Hong Kong Olympic Committee president Timothy Fok Tsun-ting (right). Photo: Chan Kin-wa
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games representative short track speed skater Sidney Chu (centre) with chef de mission Karl Kwok Chi-leung (left) and Hong Kong Olympic Committee president Timothy Fok Tsun-ting (right). Photo: Chan Kin-wa
Beijing Winter Olympics 2022

‘Dying outside’: how Hong Kong’s skiers made it to the Winter Olympics

Hong Kong ski coach and former Olympian Marko Rudic recounts team’s stressful journey to Beijing 2022, which involved 6,000km drives and battling injuries.

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Hong Kong’s Olympic skiers Yung and King ready for Games debut

Adrian Yung, 17, and Audrey King, 19, greet local media from their final Bosnia training camp as the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic slopes beckon – ‘well give it more than 100 per cent to do those two runs perfectly’.

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CrossFit star Toomey qualifies for Beijing 2022 bobsleigh

‘We did it!’ – Australia’s five-time ‘Fittest Woman on Earth’ masters a brand new sport in time for the Winter Olympics.

Tia-Clair Toomey wins her fifth CrossFit Games title, while learning a completely new sport in time for the Winter Olympics. Photo: CrossFit Games
Tia-Clair Toomey wins her fifth CrossFit Games title, while learning a completely new sport in time for the Winter Olympics. Photo: CrossFit Games
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