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Rachel Blount: Olympics contrasted success, safety, shortcomings, controversy

BEIJING – At Sunday's Closing Ceremony for the Beijing Olympics, the keynote speeches were stuffed with words like unity and togetherness and solidarity. While that wasn't surprising at an event that promotes shared ideals, it didn't reflect what made these Winter Games unique.

Tribune News Service

At Olympics, cybersecurity worries linger in background

Warnings to use disposable “burner” phones and laptops

The Independent UK

Human rights? China won that Winter Olympics battle. Almost.

At the Winter Games, host China succeeded in squelching public discussion by athletes of its human rights record

The Independent UK

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Diggins makes U.S. Olympic history winning silver in 30-kilometer freestyle

BEIJING — Jessie Diggins didn't cry when she lay in bed with food poisoning. She admitted she had a moment of self-pity, but with her final race at the Beijing Olympics only hours away, that wasn't going to do any good.

Tribune News Service

Beijing Winter Olympics closes with a plea for world peace

Beijing signed off on the 2022 Winter Olympics in style, passing the baton to Italy’s Milano Cortina with a simple but elegant closing ceremony.

The New Daily

COVID-affected Beijing Games should not detract from a thrilling Winter Olympics

The Beijing Winter Olympics were shaped inexorably by the COVID-19 prevention measures put in place, but this did not stop the Games from delivering countless performances that will go down in history, writes Simon Smale.

ABC News

A Winter Olympics that was farcical, disturbing and often exceptional

The soul-destroying story of the young Russian skater Kamila Valieva will stick in the memory for all the wrong reasons

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The Queen congratulates Team GB’s women’s curling team for winning gold at Beijing Olympics

Curlers Eve Muirhead, Vicky Wright, Jennifer Dodds and Hailey Duff won Britain’s first gold medal of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games

The Independent UK

Nathan Chen Lands Backflip in Olympic Figure Skating Gala Routine

Chen finished the 2022 Winter Olympics with a gold and silver medal.

Sports Illustrated

Today at the Winter Olympics: British women’s curling team win gold on final day

Eve Muirhead and her crew of Vicky Wright, Jennifer Dodds and Hailey Duff, plus alternate Mili Smith, dominated their final against Japan.

The Independent UK

Kamila Valieva saga casts shadow over curtain call for cheerless Winter Olympics

Locked down beneath half-empty grandstands with ‘No Cheering’ signs, Beijing was the Games that fun forgot.

The Independent UK

Inspired by the Winter Olympics? Here's your chance to give curling a try in Perth

Perthshire curlers Eve Muirhead and Mili Smith will return from Beijing with gold medals and now you can give the sport a shot at Dewars Centre

Daily Record

Emotional Eve Muirhead on 'rollercoaster' ride to Team GB's Winter Olympics curling gold

Team GB women's curling team produced the perfect performance against Japan in the final to land gold to end what was a tough Winter Olympics in Beijing

Daily Mirror

BEIJING SNAPSHOT: As Olympics ebb, smartphone synchronicity

As part of the closing ceremony for the most locked-down and sequestered Olympics in human history, a carefully curated crowd watched as the famed Bird’s Nest stadium as a warm and humanistic show unfolded

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Overshadowed by Controversy and Corruption, the Troubled Beijing Olympics Come to an End

The most contentious and dispirited Games in years concluded with the Closing Ceremony on Sunday evening in China.

The Independent UK

Winter Olympics review: From politics and human rights to doping and Covid, Beijing Games leaves a sour taste

Despite the magic of Team GB’s curlers and some special moments of sporting achievement, the Beijing Games have been a headache for Olympic organisers

Chicago Sun-Times

Beijing’s Winter Olympics close, ending safe but odd global moment

The next Olympics will be the Summer Games in Paris in 2024. Milan-Cortina in Italy will host the 2026 Winter Games.

Daily Mirror

British Olympics boss issues damning statement after CJ Ujah cost Team GB Tokyo silver

After CJ Ujah's doping violation cost Team GB silver in the men's 4x100m spint relay at the Tokyo Olympics, Andy Anson has called for drugs cheats to be banned from competing for their country ever again

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Finland beats Russians for its 1st Olympic hockey gold medal

The Finns knocked off the favored Russians 2-1 Sunday to win the men’s hockey tournament without NHL players at the Beijing Games.

Salon

Insidious Olympics mascot Bing Dwen Dwen

Lest one forget the tensions lurking beneath the Games, the panda provides an object lesson in shattered illusions

The Guardian - UK

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics daily briefing: GB gold brings Games to a close

Women’s curling team win for Britain in Games that will be remembered more for another Russian scandal than the sport

Axios

Team USA's Winter Olympics social starpower lags way behind summer games

The numbers suggest a broader branding problem for the Winter Olympics.

Daily Record

Eve Muirhead: 'It is such an incredible, incredible moment'

The Perthshire skip was full of pride after guiding Team GB to glittering gold at the Beijing Winter Olympics

Sports Illustrated

From Putin's War-Mongering to the Valieva Scandal, Russia Besieges Beijing Games

With the looming threat to invade Ukraine and the specter of another doping scandal, one country continues to be at the center of Olympic dysfunction.

The Independent UK

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