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Canada seeks to join EU challenge against China at WTO

Canada will seek to join the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia to be included in consultations as part of the European Union's dispute with China at the World Trade Organization over Beijing's alleged trade curbs on Lithuania.

Reuters

Gold-medal performers: The Olympic robots of Beijing

China's zero-COVID policy has led to all kinds of brainstorming about how to limit transmission of the coronavirus. Among the solutions: Robots!

Tribune News Service

Winning precision

After the Summer Olympics in 2008, Omega is back in Beijing for a winter edition, which kicked off last Friday at the Bird's Nest stadium.

Bangkok Post

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Helene Elliott: Nathan Chen’s sense of purpose, and great skating, made him destined for gold

BEIJING — Nathan Chen’s figure skating talent was apparent at a precocious age, surfacing quickly after he followed his hockey-playing older brothers out to the ice and realized he enjoyed the tickling breeze on his face and the problem-solving satisfaction of conquering a tricky jump or intricate spin. His resolve…

Los Angeles Times

Athletes competing in Winter Olympics use photo IDs to find romance in Beijing

Team GB has given blue or white uniforms to their 50 competitors for alternate days at the Games. They have one single red uniform in their kit bag for the 18-day Olympiad - to wear on Valentine’s Day

Daily Mirror

As the Coalition plays up China fears ahead of an election, how might Albanese position himself?

Anniversaries come and go, but 2022 might come to be regarded as unusually significant in Australian election-year politics.

The Conversation

How Mike Tirico’s double duty with the Super Bowl in L.A. and Winter Olympics in Beijing will work

Mike Tirico is hosting coverage of the Olympics AND the Super Bowl.

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Beijing 2022: environmental cost of world's first Winter Olympics without natural snow – expert Q+A

The 24th Winter Olympic Games are underway in the Chinese capital, but winter itself seems far away. To counter the lack of cold weather, the organisers are using vast quantities of water and energy to supply the events with fake snow.

The Conversation

Trudeau should have withdrawn Canada from the 2022 Beijing Olympics after reports of Chinese residential schools

Last June, Canada’s delegation to the United Nations was part of an international effort calling for UN inspectors to have free and unfettered access to China’s Xinjiang region to assess reports of human rights violations against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims.

The Conversation

Fans in stitches at peculiar medal ceremony choreography at Winter Olympics

Viewers of the Winter Olympics have been left in hysterics by a bizarre medal ceremony, which left officials in Beijing with covered faces, let alone blushing ones

Daily Mirror

Today at the Winter Olympics: Great Britain’s curlers bounce back

Meanwhile, a doping offence scandal is looming in Beijing.

The Independent UK

Helene Elliott: Nathan Chen fulfills his Olympic dream by winning figure skating gold

BEIJING — Twenty years after a young Nathan Chen watched the figure skating competition at his hometown Salt Lake City Olympics and decided he wanted to be like them, a virtuoso Chen became an Olympic gold medalist.

Los Angeles Times

17-Year-Old Jordan Stolz Is the Next Big Thing in U.S. Speedskating

The first-time Olympian got his skating start on his family’s backyard pond at age 5. Now, on the heels of a breakout season, he enters Beijing as a legitimate medal contender.

Sports Illustrated

Team GB’s Winter Olympic struggles go on with problems for skeleton crew

After more disappointment the ghosts of Winter Olympics pasts are starting to rattle for Britain’s campaign in Beijing

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Hughes left out of Aussie mixed cross team

Australian selectors have left world champion Jarryd Hughes out of the mixed snowboard cross team event after below par form in the men's event in Beijing.

The Independent UK

Winter Olympics 2022: Hotel manager in Beijing calls food at own restaurant ‘disgusting’

IOC says it is aware of the complaints ‘particularly with regard to food temperature, variety and portion size’

The Independent UK

Hong Kong's zero-covid approach meets growing frustration

Hong Kong residents are growing increasingly frustrated with ever tighter coronavirus restrictions imposed by city leaders in line with Beijing’s zero-COVID policy

The Independent UK

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Benzinga

Here's How Alibaba Is Capitalizing To Promote 2022 Beijing Olympics

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) released a virtual idol promoting the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Named "Dong Dong," the virtual idol, a computer-generated character, is "a passionate, Beijing-born 22-year-old woman who loves winter sports." Since early February, Dong Dong has appeared in nightly broadcasts via Taobao Live, Alibaba's live-streaming services. DAMO Academy, Alibaba's research…

The Independent UK

Johnson, Jones highlight most infamous Olympic doping cases

Russian star Kamila Valieva is at the center of the biggest doping story of the Beijing Games after Russian newspaper RBC reported that the figure skater tested positive for a banned substance before the Olympics

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Kagiyama takes silver in figure skating; Uno 3rd ahead of Hanyu

Teenager Yuma Kagiyama and Shoma Uno did enough to hold off two-time defending champion and compatriot Yuzuru Hanyu and come away with medals in the men's figure skating on Thursday at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

The Guardian - UK

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics daily briefing: Kim and Chen soar for US

Chloe Kim and Nathan Chen deliver impressive victories, but still no medal ceremony for the figure skating team event won on the day by ROC

Sports Illustrated

Nathan Chen Caps Four-Year Quest for Redemption with Olympic Gold

The 22-year-old conquered the mounting expectations and the disappointment of the 2018 Games with an out-of-this-world performance in Beijing.

The Independent UK

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Manchester Evening News

Skeleton star Brogan Crowley pays tribute to Olympic medallist teammate Laura Deas

Brogan Crowley will be making her Olympic debut in Beijing, and credits PyeongChang bronze medallist Laura Deas for helping her at her first Games

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