The Latest Breaking News from a Winter Olympics

After beginning 2022 by hosting a Winter Olympics inside a COVID bubble, China faced a tough year

BEIJING – Sports fans have been forced to gaze toward China this month as it held a Winter Olympics it should have never been allowed to hold.

None of Team GB's four skeleton riders have won a medal in Beijing – the first time that has happened at a Winter Olympics since 1998

Russia’s teen starlet Kamila Valieva has found herself immersed in a Winter Olympics doping row following the team figure skating competition.

The NZ anthem has rung out at a Winter Olympics for the first time in 70 years, after Zoi Sadowksi-Synnott's breathtaking final run in the snowboard slopestyle clinched her gold in Beijing

Beijing (AFP) - Despite freezing temperatures and tight Covid restrictions, Beijing on Friday tried its best to celebrate the start of a Winter Olympics chilled even before its start by the pandemic, frosty relations with the West, and a dose of been-there-done-that indifference.

How will Beijing 2022 be remembered? Described as the Genocide Games by human rights groups, it is a Winter Olympics virtually devoid of snow and one entirely run in a bubble shut off from the prying eyes of the Chinese public.

China's President Xi Jinping is poised for his first face-to-face meeting with a world leader in nearly two years on Friday when he hosts Russia's Vladimir Putin, with the pair drawing closer as tensions grow with the West. Xi has not left China since January 2020, when the country was…

Beijing (AFP) - A Winter Olympics overshadowed by rights concerns and taking place inside a strict Covid-secure bubble will officially begin in Beijing on Friday with an opening ceremony at the "Bird's Nest" stadium.