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Winter Olympics Deliver Smallest Viewing Audience Ever

This year’s ratings saw a sizable drop from the 2018 Winter Games, along with 2021’s Tokyo Games.

Sports Illustrated

Beijing Winter Olympics viewership drops to record low

The event still drew a sizable digital audience, per NBC.

Axios

Inside Beijing's Olympic Games spy network - constantly watching athletes and fans

Even Olympic champions described the Winter Games in Beijing, China, as the most controversial since the Berlin Olympics of 1936 under Hitler’s Nazi regime

Daily Mirror

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Natasha Jonas the 'snotty nosed kid from Toxteth' who became a World Champion

Natasha Jonas won the WBO Super Welterweight title after making a comeback

Liverpool Echo

Why Vladimir Putin is so confident in his Ukraine strategy – he has a trump card in China

The Beijing Winter Olympics will be remembered not just for China’s efforts to impress the world amid criticisms of its human rights record. The games were also held against the backdrop of the most dramatic escalation of strategic tensions between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold…

The Conversation

Kamila Valieva horror show proves the price of Olympic gold is too high

This is not a problem happening just in Russia – a win-at-all-costs mentality is affecting young athletes more than ever

The Guardian - UK

Bruce Mouat's mum lifts lid on her Winter Olympic pride after silver medal-winning son named Team GB flag bearer at Closing Ceremony

Mouat's rink were edged out of gold by five-time world champion, Sweden's Niklas Edin, in a tense and tactical final - but his medal-winning exploits saw him carry the British flag at the Bird's Nest

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Winter Olympics curling triumph draws new generation to the ice

Scotland’s rinks have been inundated with inquiries since the weekend’s medal-winning performances

The Guardian - UK

Richard Kilty on five-year-old son's heartbreaking reaction after Olympic medal stripped

Richard Kilty had his silver medal from the Tokyo Olympics stripped by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after Team GB sprint relay teammate CJ Ujah's doping violation

Daily Mirror

Journalists’ group ‘dismayed’ by treatment at Beijing Winter Olympics

Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China says reporters tailed and manhandled by security despite assurances from Games officials

The Guardian - UK

UK Sport set to make ‘big investment decisions’ over Winter Olympic sports

Funding decisions ahead of the 2026 Games in Milan and Cortina will be made this summer

The Independent UK

Anne congratulates Team GB athletes on ‘making country proud’ at Beijing games

The Princess Royal also paid tribute to Team GB’s women’s curling team who secured Britain’s only gold medal of the Olympics.

The Independent UK

Winter Olympics: highs, lows, heroes and villains of Beijing 2022

Our writers pick their best moments, from Alexandra Trusova’s extraordinary rant to Erin Jackson’s groundbreaking gold

The Guardian - UK

Beijing avoided Olympics disaster

Controversy simmered, but didn't boil over.

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The Independent UK

British Curling boss Nigel Holl hopes to grow sport after Olympic medals

Eve Muirhead’s rink won Team GB’s first Olympic curling gold since 2002 and Bruce Mouat’s team took silver

Caixin Global

Opinion: China’s Olympic Legacy Is About Becoming a Sporting Superpower

China is only at the beginning of its phenomenal winter sports growth, with the country set to overtake the U.S. as the world’s biggest skiing nation by 2025

The Independent UK

Frazer Clarke eyes rapid heavyweight rise as ticking clock soundtracks pro debut

Having taken bronze for Team GB at the Tokyo Olympics last summer, the 30-year-old won his first pro fight on Saturday and wants a swift return to the ring

Los Angeles Times

Helene Elliott: Simple acts of kindness make things bearable in an Olympics like no other

On the biggest stage, during the most momentous occasions, it's often the small moments that become the most memorable.

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Evening Standard

£28m for just two medals as curling glory fails to mask Winter Olympics disappoointment for Team GB

As Team GB depart Beijing, they have their curlers to thank for a disaster averted, but once the glow of Eve Muirhead & Co.’s gold, as well as men’s silver, on the final weekend fades, it will be difficult to judge these Winter Olympics as much more than a disappointment.

The Guardian - US

The Olympics face an existential crisis. An American-led effort could save them

The Olympic movement risks lurching even further into an existential crisis if major problems aren’t addressed, and many of the levers for change lie in Americans’ hands

Asharq Al-Awsat

Beijing Olympics Closes after Golden Moments and Doping Storm

The Beijing Winter Olympics have closed with IOC chief Thomas Bach hailing a smoothly run event and a "safe Games" in the midst of the Covid pandemic, but the gold medals were overshadowed by a doping controversy.

The Independent UK

AP PHOTOS: Bye bye bubble — but 1 final zero-COVID reminder

Leaving the Winter Olympics brings one full circle with a final early morning visit to an eerily empty Beijing airport.

The Independent UK

Analysis: China's bubble Olympics kept reality at a distance

They did it — that much seems obvious

The News Lens

What Happens to Uyghurs After Competing in the Olympics?

“For decades, the stereotypical ‘happily dancing Uyghur’ has served as a puppet of propaganda for China’s official ‘ethnic unity and harmony’ narrative.”

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Japan's snowboarding medal wins at Beijing Olympics sparking interest in the sport

An increasing number of people are becoming interested in snowboarding after watching Japanese snowboarders win medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

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