Beijing Winter Olympics

Insights 02/13/22, 03:26

The Beijing Winter Olympics are halfway over, and international doubts are increasing. China Youth Daily's former senior sports reporter Guo Jun from the United States said on Feb. 8 that the Chinese regime is using sports to maintain the stability of its authority. First, the Chinese regime bought the rights to host ...

Insights 02/12/22, 18:04

According to the International Testing Agency (ITA), Kamila Valieva, a 15-year-old Russian tipped to win her country's third consecutive Olympic gold medal in women's figure skating, tested positive for drugs on Feb. 8. On Wednesday, Feb. 9, the Russian daily RBC said Valieva tested positive for trimetazidine, a metabolite prescribed to ...

Insights 02/12/22, 17:36

At the Winter Olympics in Beijing, many controversies have erupted against the host country China. For example, the disqualification of several athletes for "non-compliance with the dress code," several cases of unfair decisions by the judges, and the suspicion that Chinese athletes have caused other athletes to fall during the ...

Human Rights 02/12/22, 09:05

German women's singles luge gold medallist Natalie Geisenberger, who has harshly criticized the Chinese authority ahead of her debut at the Beijing Winter Olympics, said she would wait until leaving China to comment on what happened. Reuters reported that the 34-year-old Natalie criticized China at test events in November 2021. At ...

Insights 02/12/22, 08:58

American-born Eileen Gu won the first freeski big air event at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Tuesday, Feb 8, making her the first Chinese woman to win in a snow event. Eileen Gu later stormed the Chinese media these days. News about her has been at the top of every ...

Insights 02/11/22, 17:57

The NBC coverage of the Beijing Winter Olympics' opening ceremony suffered a dramatic dip in ratings, with only 16 million viewers, a new low. Even though this year's Winter Olympics occurred in Asia, the time difference disadvantaged North American spectators. In comparison, 28.3 million people watched the opening ceremony of the ...

Insights 02/11/22, 04:08

Several athletes were injured as the Beijing Winter Olympics event entered its fourth day. According to reports, all 15 sports fields at the Beijing Winter Olympics were entirely artificial snow. As a result, athletes accustomed to practicing on natural snow are more at risk. As Xiwang Zhisheng reported on Feb. 8, ...

Economy 02/07/22, 20:27

Senator Pat Toomey wrote to U.S. Treasury Secretary and Secretary of State on Thursday, Feb. 3, a letter urging the Biden administration to pay close attention to the use of China's recently launched digital currency during the Beijing Winter Olympics.  In the letter, Toomey expressed concern that the Chinese regime may ...

Insights 02/07/22, 16:28

Chinese Media Da Ji Yuan reported that on Feb. 6, 2022, there was not enough food, no exercise equipment, and poor hygiene in the isolation room. In addition, some foreign athletes who unfortunately tested positive for COVID during the Beijing Olympics said their isolation conditions worsened. In an Instagram post, Valeria ...

Insights 02/06/22, 20:43

As Chinese media Apollo reported on Feb. 5, due to the weather factor, the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, under the concept of promoting low carbon and environmental protection, used more artificial snow in the Yanxing competition area. According to CNN, the area around the Olympic venues is not particularly suitable for ...

Insights 02/06/22, 20:42

According to Xiwang Zhisheng, Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan attended the Beijing Winter Olympics' opening ceremony held at the Bird's Nest Stadium on February 4 evening.  Peng Liyuan followed Xi Jinping on the way out and entered before Li Keqiang and the other six Standing Committee members, which once ...

Human Rights 02/06/22, 20:32

According to the list provided by the Olympics host, only 25 of the world's more than 200 countries and regions have dignitaries or royalty attending the Beijing Winter Olympics. Hong Kong media said that leaders from six countries who were expected to attend, had no athletes participating in the competition. According ...

Human Rights 02/03/22, 17:30

Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), took the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala to support the Beijing Winter Olympics and praise China's iron fist for epidemic prevention.  He has praised the Chinese regime in the past few days and has been welcomed with open arms. However, ...

Insights 02/03/22, 17:15

According to a Business Insiders' report published on January 30th, China's regime has officially claimed to spend only 3.9 billion USD on the Beijing Winter Olympics to achieve the so-called "green, safe, and simple" goal. However, investigations by foreign media have revealed that the Winter Olympics cost at least 38.5 ...

China 02/03/22, 10:29

The number of positive nucleic acid tests for athletes worldwide has significantly increased when they arrive in Beijing. However, experts say differences in domestic and foreign nucleic acid testing standards and political factors within the Chinese regime are out of control. According to the epidemic announcement on the Beijing Winter Olympics ...

China 01/31/22, 14:30

According to AFP, on Jan. 29th, among the official Canadian delegations to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics, five people tested positive for COVID-19. They will be managed under the "Beijing 2022" epidemic prevention rules. The Canadian delegation currently on the ground in China consists of 246 people. The Canadian Olympic ...

Human Rights 01/29/22, 10:53

On Friday, international activists, including Tibetans, Hong Kongers and Uighurs, joined together to lobby among athletes and sponsors, a boycott of the "genocide games."  At a press conference organized by Human Rights Watch, activists representing groups persecuted by the Chinese regime said athletes at the Beijing Olympics should speak out against ...

Insights 01/28/22, 14:38

To ensure that the Beijing Winter Olympics events happen accordingly, China employed a variety of strategies to keep people from travelling amid the pandemic. China has used both rewards and punishment tactics to prevent people from traveling home during the Chinese New Year holiday.  They include threatening with imprisonment if returning to ...

China 01/27/22, 22:07

According to Reuters, Taiwan will not send government officials to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics and calls on the Chinese regime not to use politics to "interfere" with the Olympic Games or "belittle" the island. In a statement released on Tuesday, Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council announced that its athletes are ...

Insights 01/27/22, 20:00

With the Winter Beijing Olympics approaching, Covid pandemic in Beijing has not been cleared, but local confirmed cases have continued to increase.In the afternoon of January 25th, officials at a press conference on epidemic prevention and control in Beijing announced that from 4PM on January 24th to 4PM on January ...