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Russia and China Hail ‘No Limits’ Partnership to Stand Up to US

China and Russia proclaimed a deep strategic partnership on Friday to balance what they portrayed as the malign global influence of the United States as China's President Xi Jinping hosted Russia's Vladimir Putin on the opening day of the Beijing Winter Olympics. In a joint statement, the two countries affirmed…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Beijing 2022: Winter Olympics opening ceremony – as it happened

Xi Jinping declared the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games officially open after a parade of 91 competing nations and a typically breathtaking show

The Guardian - UK

Winter Olympics: See how Team GB has performed at every games ahead of Beijing 2022

Great Britain has competed in the Winter Olympics in every games since the first in 1924

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What time is the Winter Olympics opening ceremony? TV channel and how to watch

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What is Nordic Combined and why won’t there be a women’s event

The sport will be the only one at Beijing 2022 with exclusively male events

The Independent UK

How to watch the Beijing Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony free in the UK

The Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 officially kicks off today, Friday February 4, with the much-anticipated opening ceremony. Here's how and when to watch it in the UK for free

Daily Mirror

Beijing Olympics Set to Open under Cloud of Covid, Rights Fears

A Winter Olympics overshadowed by rights concerns and taking place inside a strict Covid-secure bubble will officially begin in Beijing on Friday with an opening ceremony at the "Bird's Nest" stadium. The distinctive lattice-shaped arena took center stage at the 2008 Games -- seen as China's coming-out party to the…

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Beijing Winter Olympics open under shadow of human rights criticism

Several western nations have criticised China’s rights record while protests are unfolding worldwide

The Independent UK

China, Russia partner up against West at Olympics summit

China and Russia on the opening day of the Winter Olympics declared a "no limits" partnership, backing each other over standoffs on Ukraine and Taiwan with a promise to collaborate more against the West.

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Beijing Winter Olympics backed to inspire LGBTQ+ athletes

The 2022 Games held in the Chinese capital will take place during LGBTQ+ History Month

The Independent UK

Winter Olympics opening ceremony: Beijing 2022 Games are officially open after stirring ceremony at the Bird's Nest

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are underway, after a stirring opening ceremony. Australia's team make their entrance to the Bird's Nest stadium where a shirtless American Samoan steals the show. Look back on all the action.

ABC News

Covid, Uyghurs and viewer apathy: is Beijing 2022 in danger of a US ratings flop?

The Olympics is no longer event television and Tokyo 2020 drew the smallest US audience of any televised Games. Worse could be in store in the coming weeks

The Guardian - US

Consett bobsleigh ace Mica McNeill issues rousing Winter Olympic rallying cry on eve of Beijing 2022

McNeill, 28, will form part of an eight-strong British bobsleigh team after enjoying a searing season on the World Cup circuit

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Nottingham speed skater Farrell Treacy praying to avoid brotherly déjà vu at Beijing 2022

The Treacy brothers will form two-thirds of Team GB’s short track speed skating squad at the Winter Olympic Games - and are hoping to steer clear of the chaotic collision that derailed their recent World Cup campaign

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‘We’re Not Best Friends’: Ukrainian and Russian Olympic Athletes Keep Distance

With Russian troops massed at Ukraine's borders, athletes from the two countries have formed a fragile peace at the Beijing Olympics, helped along by coronavirus restrictions meant to keep competitors apart. Ukraine has advised its athletes to avoid Russians where possible and instructed them how to behave in case they…

Al Jazeera

Ukraine latest updates: US troops arrive in Germany

Ukraine news from February 4: Troops deployed to reinforce Washington’s NATO allies arrive in Wiesbaden, US army says.

Reuters

Putin hails $117.5 billion of China deals as Russia squares off with West

President Vladimir Putin unveiled new Russian oil and gas deals with China worth an estimated $117.5 billion on Friday, promising to ramp up Russia's Far East exports at a time of heightened tension with European customers over Ukraine.

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The Independent UK

Winter Olympics LIVE: China officially open Games as TV reporter dragged away by Beijing security

The Winter Olympics formally begin today with the opening ceremony in Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium

Evening Standard

Winter Olympics 2022: Games begin against backdrop of Covid, Uyghur questions... and a lack of snow

How will Beijing 2022 be remembered? Described as the Genocide Games by human rights groups, it is a Winter Olympics virtually devoid of snow and one entirely run in a bubble shut off from the prying eyes of the Chinese public.

The Independent UK

Amazin LeThi hopes Beijing Winter Olympics inspire LGBTQ+ athletes

The 2022 Games held in the Chinese capital will take place during LGBTQ+ History Month.

The Independent UK

Laura Deas calls for focus on mental health at ‘zero Covid’ Winter Olympics

Fellow skeleton racer Kim Meylemans garnered global sympathy after she tested positive and was denied a room in the Olympic Village upon arrival in Beijing

Tribune News Service

Lithuania’s resistance to Chinese pressure a test for US strategy

Little Lithuania — population less than 3 million — has been taking a trade battering from China, but it is becoming a test case on whether smaller countries can be persuaded to resist Beijing’s economic coercion.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Uno shines as team figure skating starts ahead of opening ceremony

BEIJING -- As the host city prepared for the opening ceremony to mark the official start of the Beijing Winter Olympics to be held on Friday night, Shoma Uno and the figure skaters put on quite a show earlier in the day.

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Tibetans in India demonstrate against Beijing Olympics

Hundreds of Tibetan exiles are marching outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi, denouncing the Beijing Winter Olympics and demanding freedom for their region

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