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Winter Olympics 2022 LIVE: Curling mixed doubles as Team GB face Sweden in Beijing

The Winter Olympics start with the curling ahead of Friday’s opening ceremony

The Independent UK

What comes first, baby or Olympics? Race is on for biathlete Leif Nordgren.

No matter how many big events you've packed into your 2022 calendar, Leif Nordgren probably has you beat. Competing at the Beijing Winter Games is just the start for the Minnesotan, a three-time Olympian in biathlon.

Tribune News Service

GLIMPSES: Testing, testing everywhere in the Olympic bubble

Two hands reach through holes in the glass to fill up a pair of dangling gloves. The hands seem almost separate from the woman they belong to. She is one of the people performing COVID-19 tests inside Beijing’s Olympic bubble.

The Independent UK

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Winter Olympics 2022 opening ceremony live stream: How can I watch for FREE on TV in UK?

The opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing today to herald the start of the Games.

Evening Standard

Organisers downplay fears as 11 at Winter Olympics in hospital with Covid

Eleven people at the Winter Olympics are in hospital with Covid, Beijing 2022 officials have revealed, although none are in a life threatening condition

The Guardian - UK

Fewer Japanese companies sponsor Team Japan for Beijing Games amid Tokyo 2020 woes, issues in China

A few Japanese companies are among the Olympic sponsors supporting the Games and Japan's delegation at the Beijing Winter Olympics, which start Friday.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Olympics-Curling kicks off Beijing Games ahead of Putin-Xi main event

Mixed doubles curling opened competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Wednesday as the shadow of war in Ukraine, and the impending arrival of Russian President Vladimir Putin, loomed over an event already transformed by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Beijing Winter Olympics: Torch relay gets under way ahead of Friday’s opening ceremony

The Beijing Winter Olympic torch relay got underway on Wednesday with an 80-year-old former speedskater among the first to carry the flame.

Evening Standard

Winter Olympics 2022 opening ceremony: UK start time, date, how long is it and Team GB flagbearers

The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing have arrived and with them comes what is sure to be a show-stopper of an opening ceremony.

Evening Standard

Winter Olympics TV schedule, channels and how to watch

Everything you need to know ahead of the opening ceremony

The Independent UK

Olympic advisors at ease with COVID rate, see cases falling

More than 30 new COVID-19 cases are being detected daily ahead of the Beijing Olympics but organizers say they aren't worried and expect numbers to drop within days

The Independent UK

Olympics Torch Begins COVID-Shortened Trek Past Beijing Landmarks

Beijing kicked off its Winter Olympics torch relay early on Wednesday, with Chinese basketball great and Olympian Yao Ming among the first to carry the flame on a journey that will last just three days due to COVID-19 curbs. The relay will carry the flame past landmarks including the Great…

Asharq Al-Awsat

China's zero-COVID policy dims sponsors' hopes of Olympic boost

BEIJING -- Chinese companies that are sponsors of the Beijing Winter Olympics have been devoting themselves to the promotion of their products.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Ire and ice for Beijing's Winter Olympics

Two events dominate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) calendar for 2022 - the Winter Olympics and the 20th Party Congress later this year.

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Olympics-Beijing torch begins COVID-shortened relay

Beijing's COVID-shortened Olympic torch relay began on Wednesday with basketball great Yao Ming and a Chinese soldier wounded in a bloody 2020 border clash with India among the first to carry the symbolic flame on a journey that will last only three days.

Al Jazeera

Beijing starts low-key torch relay for Winter Olympics

2022 Games takes place inside a ‘closed loop’ bubble that seals off athletes, Olympics personnel and selected guests.

The Times of India

Manager of India's Winter Olympics contingent tests positive for Covid-19 upon arrival in Beijing

BEIJING: The manager of India's Winter Olympics contingent, Mohammad Abbas Wani, has tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival at the Beijing Airport.

The Guardian - AU

Covid news: Anger as Tory MP says lockdown breach ‘like parking fine’; Germany could relax restrictions in March – as it happened

Pfizer-BioNTech seeks US approval for under-5s Covid inoculation; Lithuania to scrap Covid pass on Saturday

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Follow China's party line or face consequences

In a park in central Beijing, a bust of International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach was unveiled in January. It was made in a similar style to two other busts already installed there of Bach's predecessors, Jacques Rogge and Juan Antonio Samaranch. Alongside these busts is another statue that was…

The Independent UK

Shortened Olympic torch relay starts for Beijing Games

The three-day torch relay for the Beijing Olympics has started with an 80-year-old former speedskater carrying the flame

Reuters

Eleven Beijing Games personnel in hospital with COVID, none serious

Eleven Beijing Olympics-related personnel have been hospitalised with COVID-19 in the Chinese capital since Jan. 23 out of a total of 232 positive cases, Brian McCloskey, chair of the Beijing 2022 medical expert panel, said on Wednesday.

AAP

Tudhope headlines Winter Paralympics team

Australia's 10-person team for the Beijing Winter Paralympics has been named with para-snowboarding young gun Ben Tudhope shaping as a medal hope.

The Independent UK

Eileen Gu: Who is the California-born superstar freestyle skier aiming to win gold for China?

The 19-year-old athlete from San Francisco is favourite in three Beijing events

The Independent UK

What is Nordic Combined and why won’t there be a women’s event

The sport will be the only one at Beijing 2022 with exclusively male events

The Independent UK

Where was the first Winter Olympics held and where will the next one be?

Norway topped the medal table at the first ever Winter Olympics - almost 100 years ago

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