Sports

China 06/20/22, 22:49

The Financial Times on June 17 reported that Beijing had converted three Olympic villages into quarantine facilities for Covid-infected patients and the close-contact cases.  At the time of the Winter Olympics in February, around 2,900 international athletes were housed in these compounds isolated from the rest of Beijing. The newspaper also reported ...

In-depth Reports 06/07/22, 16:15

During the live broadcast of the French Open tennis final, China Central Television CCTV provided images considered unusual by the viewer. It seemed to hide an image that they found sensitive, making Chinese fans angry and ridicule it. The reason was that the world tennis queen Iga Swiatek tied a ribbon ...

Football 05/18/22, 06:07

As Reuters reported, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) announced China’s withdrawal from its hosting rights for the 2023 Asian Cup. The rationale behind this decision is the exceptional conditions caused by the Covid-19 outbreak. After discussing it extensively, China and AFC reached that decision. AFC praises Chinese authorities for making a ...

Tennis 04/22/22, 09:24

The Wimbledon Tournament, All England Club, announced on April 20, through a statement that it will ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This controversial decision will leave tennis players out of the oldest competition in the world. Novak Djokovic, the world number one, said it is "crazy" ...

Basketball 04/15/22, 18:47

A recent report again demonstrates how the Chinese regime influences the silence of athletes by putting them under threat of being shut out of the huge Chinese market.  A Thursday, April 14, an ESPN report detailed the consequences to the NBA-China business relationship. A tweet in which former Houston Rockets general ...

Insights 03/18/22, 23:54

US Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu and her father Arthur Liu – a former political refugee – were targeted in a spying operation that the Justice Department alleged was orchestrated by Beijing. Arthur Liu told AP that the FBI had already warned him about the scheme in October 2021. At that ...

Opinion 03/14/22, 09:27

The International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons said on Thursday, March 10, that he is still waiting for the Chinese state broadcaster to explain the censorship of his anti-war speech at the opening of the Beijing Winter Games, nearly a week before. At the same time, Chinese CCTV has not responded ...

Insights 03/03/22, 21:25

In an unexpected twist in the decision by Olympic authorities, Russian and Belarusian athletes have been excluded from the Paralympic Games because of the war between Russia and Ukraine, a move Russian officials called "illegal" After announcing on Wednesday, that athletes from Russia and Belarus could compete, but only as "neutrals" ...

Insights 02/23/22, 20:46

After flying back to Germany, Olympic athlete Natalie Geisenberger recalled her uneasy decision to join the Games on February 17 on the ZDFheute Nachrichten with Markus Lanz. Despite China’s human rights records and the poor treatment during her training there, she decided that she would “go there for two weeks, ...

China 02/23/22, 19:08

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (MOFA) and the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) refuted and condemned Yan Jiarong, the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee's spokesperson, for using the occasion of the Olympic Games to interfere with international sports activities through politics. Yan Jiarong expressed at a press ...

Insights 02/23/22, 16:36

Beijing's Olympic Winter Games ended on Feb. 20 amid controversy over the epidemic and human rights. On Feb. 21, the Foreign Correspondents' Club in China (FCCC) issued a statement, accusing the Chinese regime of repeatedly interfering with media coverage during the Games. The club expressed frustration that journalists were often ...

Insights 02/23/22, 16:20

As the curtain falls on the Beijing Winter Olympics, those athletes who were afraid to speak out on human rights issues for fear of reprisals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are beginning to make their voices heard. Nils van der Poel, the Swedish speed skater who won two gold medals ...

Insights 02/23/22, 08:14

U.S. figure skater Vincent Zhou said on Sunday Feb. 20, 2022, that he was marked as a Covid-19 "close contact" risk and was banned from the Winter Olympics closing ceremony. He took to his Instagram account to express his frustration with the organizers' decision. "Before boarding the bus to the stadium, they ...

Insights 02/23/22, 04:07

The 16-day Winter Olympics in Beijing ended on Sunday, Feb. 20. Unfortunately, unlike the last time China organized the competitions in 2008, international news this year is not fully inundated with awestruck comments. It was a setback that the ratings for the Beijing Winter Olympics were much lower than those for ...

China 02/21/22, 12:55

On Feb 19, Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang asked the Education Ministry and the Sports Administration to investigate the inappropriate words and actions of Taiwan's speed skater Huang Yuting during her participation in the Beijing Winter Olympics. Su's office said the premier believed Huang's actions were "extremely inappropriate" and has also ...

Insights 02/21/22, 12:07

China put out its Olympic flame at Beijing National Stadium on Sunday night (February 20th) to mark the end of the 2022 Winter Olympics. At this year's Winter Olympics, Norway finished first in the medal standings, setting a new national record with 16 gold, eight silver, and 13 bronze medals (or ...