Winter Olympics: China 'not well suited' to host Games, says Team GB freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy
British freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy says China is «not well suited» to host the Winter Olympics because of its reported human rights abuses.
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Tibetans march on IOC headquarters to protest Beijing Games
LAUSANNE, Switzerland: Several hundred Tibetan and Uyghur activists marched on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday (Feb 3), a day before Beijing 2022 opens, accusing the Swiss-based organisation of complicity in "atrocities" committed against ethnic minorities in China.
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Tibetans march on Swiss-based IOC to protest Beijing Games
LAUSANNE, Switzerland : Hundreds of Tibetan activists marched on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday, a day before Beijing 2022 opens, accusing the Swiss-based organisation of complicity in "atrocities" committed against ethnic minorities in China.
'Boycott banter' to be doused by opening, says Beijing Games organiser
Olympics will turn attention away from criticism over human rights, which China rejects, a spokesperson for the organising committee told Reuters on the eve of the opening ceremony. Several countries including the United States and Britain have announced a diplomatic boycott of the Games over China's rights record, including its treatment of mostly Muslim Uyghurs in its Xinjiang region, which the United States deems genocide. "The so-called China human rights issue is a lie made up by people with ulterior motives," Zhao Weidong, spokesperson for the Beijing Games, told Reuters in an interview on Thursday when asked if such criticism had undermined the Games.
'Boycott banter' to be doused by opening, says Games organiser
BEIJING : Friday's start of the Beijing Winter Olympics will turn attention away from criticism over human rights, which China rejects, a spokesperson for the organising committee told Reuters on the eve of the opening ceremony.
2022 Winter Olympic Games: All You Need to Know
On Friday the 2022 Winter Olympics begins, with Beijing set to become the first city to ever host both the summer (2008) and winter editions of the Games.