Beijing Winter Olympics - Page 2

Chinese Olympics fans erupted on social media, furious that US-born skater Zhu Yi defected to China for the games but finished last.

ESPN guest analyst JA Adande pushed back on concerns over human rights in China by saying that the United States cannot criticize the communist nation because red states assault the “voting rights” of people of color in America.

Zhao Weidong, the spokesman for China’s Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, said on Thursday that the opening ceremony for the Games would squelch all “banter” about boycotting the event to protest the Chinese government’s human rights abuses.

China’s athletes are groomed for the Olympics by a system that uses abuse, humiliation, DNA selection, and beatings, according to a report.

Tibetan exiles and supporters of Tibetan freedom gathered outside Chinese embassies, Olympic headquarters, and NBC studios to protest the Beijing Winter Olympics, derided by critics as the “Genocide Games” because the event risks validating Communist China’s brutal suppression of minorities like the Tibetans and Uyghur Muslims.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin held a summit with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Beijing Winter Olympics, which Putin is technically banned from, on Friday.

A Dutch reporter was bodily dragged away by a Chinese security officer outside the arena during a live broadcast of the Beijing Olympics.

The Chinese Communist government sternly warned Olympic athletes not to engage in any unauthorized political speech but Chinese state media roundly applauded an American athlete for gushing over the “incredible” accommodations she found in Beijing.

Former figure skater Adam Rippon, who won a bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics, said Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead” that he hopes the world’s attention during the 2022 winter games pressures the Chinese government to address their human rights abuses.

The Chinese genocide Olympics is becoming the defection games as now at least three Americans have abandoned the U.S.A. for China.

Germany will attend the CCP’s Winter Olympics, despite the country’s Chancellor declaring he has no intention of travelling himself.

Olympic Freeskier Eileen Gu was born in California but despite being born American she intends to win gold for the genocidal Chinese.

A Belgian Olympian experienced fear and panic on Wednesday after Chinese organizers at the Genocide Games took her out of Covid quarantine and placed her in isolation without her knowledge or consent.

China recorded 32 more coronavirus cases linked to the Beijing Winter Olympics on Tuesday, including 17 inside the “closed loop” or “bubble” meant to separate Olympic venues from the rest of the city. 11 Beijing Games personnel are now hospitalized with Chinese coronavirus.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Monday on his show “The Lead” that China was attempting to hid “a lot of ugly truths” during the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Chinese officials on Sunday claimed to have discovered 119 coronavirus infections among athletes and staff at the Beijing Winter Olympics, including 37 new cases on Sunday.

Several human rights groups are shocked by the total silence from Olympics athletes about the genocide games being held in Beijing, China.

Russian Ambassador to China Andrey Denisov said on Tuesday that even though China is not directly involved in negotiations with the U.S. and NATO over the fate of Ukraine, “our Chinese friends are paying close attention to the talks.”

Taiwan announced on Tuesday that none of its officials will visit China for the Winter Olympics, but Taiwanese athletes plan to participate as normal – even as Beijing appears set to take the gold medal in the 100 Kilometer Penetration of Airspace Dash by sending swarms of warplanes to menacingly orbit Taiwan.

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday quoted an anonymous source “familiar” with the U.S. State Department’s thinking to claim the Biden administration is planning to withdraw American diplomatic personnel due to the deteriorating coronavirus “epidemic situation” in China.

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday celebrated Russian leader Vladimir Putin for leading a 500-member delegation from Russia to the Beijing Winter Olympics, the largest foreign delegation yet announced for the event.

China’s state newspaper, the Global Times, blasted legendary sportscaster Bob Costas for daring to criticize China’s woeful record on freedom of the press and criticizing the IOC for allowing the Winter Olympics to be held in Beijing.

Liu Youbin, a spokesman for China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment, on Monday promised “administrative measures” would be taken to clean up the heavy cloud of smog that has descended over the city of Beijing on the eve of the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Chinese state media on Sunday reported more lockdowns and mass testing programs in Beijing neighborhoods as the first group of athletes and staff arrived at the Olympic village.

Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) said the “swamp is lighting up” to defeat a proposed ban on government contracting with Beijing Olympics sponsors.

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday quoted a Russian official who claimed American and European state-directed hackers have launched a “massive” cyberattack on the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Local media in China’s capital of Beijing report that with only two weeks to go before the Winter Olympics begin, city health authorities have resumed a controversial practice from early in the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic: using anal swabs to check for infections.

France’s National Assembly has adopted a non-binding resolution denouncing China’s genocide against its Uyghur minority.

NBC Sports will not be sending an announcing team to the Beijing Winter Olympics due to coronavirus concerns.

A Chinese official in charge of relations for the upcoming Olympics said that athletes who criticize China will be punished for speaking out.

Chinese state media on Wednesday acknowledged the coronavirus outbreaks in Beijing and other cities have grown more serious, but confidently predicted they would be fully under control before the Beijing Winter Olympics begin in a few weeks.

Russian state media reported on Tuesday that leader Vladimir Putin will meet with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on February 4, the beginning of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

The State Post Bureau of China announced on Tuesday that it would pass all international mail entering the country through four rounds of “disinfection” to prevent the spread of Chinese coronavirus, despite most mainstream scientists agreeing that touching infected surfaces is not a main form of coronavirus transmission.

With the Beijing Winter Olympics only a few weeks away, and a coronavirus wave sweeping across China, many residents of Beijing have reportedly decided to flee the city while they still can, taking the very same Lunar New Year holiday trips to visit family that Chinese officials have been discouraging.

Less than a week after Team USA advised Olympic athletes to purchase disposable “burner” phones to thwart Chinese surveillance of the Beijing Winter Olympics, researchers at the University of Toronto are warning of serious security issues in the “MY2022” smartphone app China is requiring all athletes, journalists, and spectators to download on their smartphones.

The Chinese Communist Party’s latest excuse for the coronavirus wave it can no longer conceal is that packages from overseas brought the omicron variant to China. The party is using this notion as an excuse to limit imports.