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Xi promises ‘safe, splendid’ Winter Olympics as COVID cases rise

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

Al Jazeera · Feb 3, 2022

Another Beijing Olympics with human rights still major issue

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 Independent UK · Feb 3, 2022

Olympics-Beijing will deliver 'safe and splendid' Games-Chinese President Xi

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.

Reuters · Feb 3, 2022

How snowboarding became a marquee event at the Winter Olympics – but lost some of its cool factor in the process

The mass appeal of creative, youth-oriented events such as snowboarding and freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics is a virtual case study of how the once radical can go mainstream.

The Conversation · Feb 1, 2022

Feel Guilty Games: China human rights issues have forever marked the Beijing Olympics

The rulebook for the Olympics — called the Olympic Charter — contains numerous bylaws meant to foster "political neutrality." No protesting on the field of play, no wearing of symbols or flashing hand gestures. That sort of thing.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 1, 2022

Olympics-Rule 50 on political protests a conundrum for athletes in Beijing

Athletes considering staging political protests during the Beijing 2022 Winter Games will have to negotiate the International Olympic Committee's Rule 50 which originally banned such behaviour but now offers more freedom.

Reuters · Feb 1, 2022

Spectre of 1936 and 1980 haunts Beijing 2022 as fear and repression breed silence

China has been repressing minorities and targeting dissenters but anyone who chooses to speak out faces the threat of reprisal from a hostile regime

The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2022

The IOC stays silent on China human rights

The Olympics committee says it's committed to human rights, but this time it's declining to take a stand.

Axios · Feb 1, 2022

British Olympic bosses pledge to help Rhona Howie get new gold medal 20 years on

“We’re very happy to make a submission to the IOC to see if we can get Rhona a replacement medal given the terrible circumstances of it being stolen from her"

Daily Mirror · Jan 29, 2022

China spends billions on Olympics with longer-term goal

The finance model for the Winter Olympics calls for the host country to spend several billion dollars, the IOC to earn a couple billion, and sports bodies to share around hundreds of millions

The Independent UK · Jan 27, 2022