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BEIJING :The coach of the Finland men's ice hockey team accused China of not respecting a player's human rights on Sunday as complaints about COVID-19 isolation protocols piled up at the Winter Games.
ZANGJIAKOU: A Swedish journalist who was whisked off to isolation by ambulance at the Beijing Winter Olympics has found a way to keep working, writing a diary of his time in Chinese quarantine for his newspaper.
BEIJING: He's the only one who can top Beijing's Olympics mascot "Bing Dwen Dwen" in a popularity match.
China's move to thrust a young Uyghur athlete into the spotlight at the climax of the Beijing Winter Olympics opening ceremony placed her at the centre of long-time controversy over rights abuses in Xinjiang. Dinigeer Yilamujiang, a 20-year-old cross-country skier, trained for years to fulfil every child's dream to star at the Olympics. But her prominent, smiling appearance as the final Olympic torch-bearer on Friday at the "Bird's Nest" national stadium in front of thousands of spectators and across global television screens had clear political overtones.
Chances are you’ve been wondering why athletes are given cuddly pandas on the podium instead of medals at Beijing 2022. At the Tokyo Summer Olympics we became accustomed to the medals being dished out inside the stadium – albeit with athletes having to put medals around their own necks due to Covid risks – but that isn’t happening in Beijing. Ad/> Instead, medallists have received a fluffy mascot on the podium, as modelled by New Zealand’s snowboard sensation Zoi Sadowski-Synnott in the above video.
