The Latest Breaking News from Beijing

At the age of 17, Kamaltürk Yalqun was chosen to help carry the Olympic flame ahead of the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, where he later represented his home region in western China

IOC reports highest number of cases among Games-related personnel, condemns calls for boycott of Beijing 2022.

Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat started their campaign with victory over Sweden on Wednesday evening

About 150,000 spectators are expected to be invited to attend events at the Beijing Olympics

Amid China's zero-COVID policy, around 50 foreign athletes scheduled to take part in the Beijing Winter Olympics have tested positive for the coronavirus.

A total of 55 new COVID-19 infections were found among Olympic Games-related personnel on Feb. 2, the chair of the Beijing 2022 medical expert panel said on Thursday, the highest daily tally so far.

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are opening with the same concerns that loomed over the 2008 Beijing Olympics: China's record on human rights and its treatment of Tibetans and Uyghur Muslims in western China

The report said it also showed the extreme lengths Beijing has gone to silence discussion about the battle.

The Beijing Olympics, which officially opens on Friday, will be streamlined, safe and splendid, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday, as the head of the IOC decried boycott ghosts "rearing their ugly heads again" over human rights concerns.

Canada's Women's Olympic Team will meet Switzerland on Wednesday night as they open up their Olympic campaign from Beijing.

BEIJING — The sprawling Olympic Green is lined with brightly lit trees, an enormous glowing statue of the Winter Games mascot, an ice suit-wearing panda named Bing Dwen Dwen, and synchronized light shows speed along the sides of the 846-foot Olympic Tower.