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Beijing Winter Olympics 2022i

The 2022 Winter Olympics, the 24th winter Olympiad, were held in Beijing, China between 4-20 February 2022.

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It is inevitable that big sports events will be used to make political points, but sport offers an opportunity to bring nations together, instead of driving them further apart.

At a time of so much division, the superstar skier is doing her best to represent both China and the US in promoting winter sports, and her desire to further cross-cultural understanding is something we need more of.

Despite the absence of spectators these have been the most-watched Winter Olympics ever, and the hi-tech enhancements witnessed by a global audience have set the bar high for future hosts.

  • Norwegian Jesper Pedersen won 4 golds and a silver in alpine skiing at the Games last year, while China’s athletes won 61 and topped the medal table
  • Pedersen says there were no Chinese competitors involved in this season’s World Cup circuit, and fears the country’s athletes will go backwards

Double-Olympic gold medallist beats out likes of Chloe Kim and Rayssa Leal at prestigious awards in Paris, while Lionel Messi is named sportsman of the year and his Argentina side team of the year.

More than three years after China’s central bank started digital currency trials, adoption in one of the initial test beds, Suzhou, remains lethargic.

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Eileen Gu’s double gold medal-winning performance at Beijing Winter Olympics earns her nod in World Action Sportsperson of the Year Award, while likes of Lionel Messi and Iga Swiatek headline sportsmen and women categories.

From her LV ‘Wonder Woman’ leather get-up at the Met Gala to her feathery Elie Saab jumpsuit for the ESPYs, here are 13 of the Chinese-born sports icon’s hottest fashion looks to date

Those acquitted were a Tibetan student, a Hong Kongese-American and a Vietnamese-American activist. They had staged a protest at the Acropolis in Athens, holding up a Tibetan flag and a banner reading ‘Free Hong Kong – Revolution’.

Document guided by UN principles published a week after outgoing human rights chief released report saying China’s alleged detention of Uygurs may be a crime against humanity.

Olympic speed skater Sidney Chu tells the Post why speed skating is a great workout for mind and body, and why he wants to make the sport more inclusive in Hong Kong.

Winter Olympian claims another title after her double gold medal winning performance in Beijing, has fans swooning after taking grandmother to glitzy ceremony in Los Angeles.

Hong Kong short-track speed skater leaves for United States next month to take up a place at Rutgers’ New Jersey Medical School, but is aiming to compete in 4 years.

Japanese figure skating icon and two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu announces his retirement from competition – but will put on exhibition shows for legion of fans.

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Japan’s two-time Olympic figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu will hold a news conference on Tuesday where he will will make a ‘statement of determination’.

Readers discuss whether Putin had a hidden agenda when he attended the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Western criticism of China’s treatment of minorities, and why the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework is not attractive to small states like Cambodia.

Double Olympic gold medallist says decision shows ‘beauty of globalisation’, adding she has backing of ‘incredibly supportive’ China, who she represented at Beijing Winter Olympics earlier this year.

China’s US-born Olympic champ is youngest and first female ambassador of Asia Society Southern California, and says ‘it’s imperative we continue to build bridges between cultures, communities, and people.’

A majority of the Singapore-based entrepreneurs selected from a record number of entries are not from the Lion City, underscoring the city state’s allure as a business base.

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Russian figure skater was revealed to have failed a doping test the day after helping team win gold in Beijing. The medal ceremony was scrapped and the incident cast a shadow over the teenagers participation in the Games.

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Since the Beijing Games finished, Gu has been on a whirlwind tour, gracing catwalks, giving talks and appearing at the Miami Grand Prix earlier this month.