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2022 BEIJING OLYMPICS

Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 25, 2022
Olympians face a daunting final qualifying event: staying healthy
With the Feb. 4 opening ceremony in their sights, athletes are cutting off contact with loved ones, changing the ways they train and ceasing all activities outside the realms of competition.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 25, 2022
As cases mount, China eases COVID-19 testing standards for Beijing Olympics
It's likely that more cases will be recorded than at the Tokyo Olympics, as Beijing is testing more frequently and the omicron variant is much more infectious than delta.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 24, 2022
Putin could burst Xi’s Olympic dream with a war in Ukraine
Russia has little incentive to antagonize China, its largest trading partner with total trade valuing $112 billion in 2020.
Figure Skating
Jan 24, 2022
Yuzuru Hanyu and Nathan Chen expected to take center stage in Beijing
A rivalry that fizzled out in Pyeongchang four years ago may produce fireworks at the Beijing Games when two-time defending Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu battles American Nathan Chen in his quest for more figure skating glory.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 23, 2022
Uyghurs in Turkey call for boycott of Beijing Games
'China stop the genocide, China close the camps', chanted the demonstrators, some holding up a banner reading 'Stop Genocide Olympics'.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 23, 2022
Indian skier Arif Khan ready for date with destiny in Beijing
The alpine skier is India's sole representative at the Games, and his path to the Olympics from the snowy slopes of conflict-ridden Kashmir was far from straightforward.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 22, 2022
China’s fake snow frenzy for Beijing Olympics strains water supplies
Artificial snow has become a Winter Olympics fixture due to climate change, but Beijing will be the first host to rely completely on man-made powder.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 22, 2022
Olympic medalist Erik Lesser says blame IOC, not athletes, over Winter Games being in China
'We are now standing here having to justify ourselves for the Olympic Games (being held) in a country where human rights are violated.'
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jan 20, 2022
On frozen ponds, far from Olympics, Chinese hockey fans show their love for the game
The passion of amateur hockey players in northeast China's rust-belt city of Anshan draws a sharp contrast with the country's wider indifference to the sport.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 19, 2022
Athletes warned against speaking up on human rights at Beijing Games
Speakers at an event organized by Human Rights Watch said that discussing controversial issues while in China could land Winter Olympic participants in legal trouble.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 19, 2022
Swiss ski jumper Simon Ammann set for his seventh Winter Games
The 40-year-old is the only jumper to have won a golden double of both individual titles — normal hill and large hill — at two Olympics, in 2002 and 2010.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 18, 2022
Jamaican Benjamin Alexander beat odds to qualify for giant slalom
Alexander said his career was made possible by the Jamaican bobsleigh team that competed in Calgary, Canada in 1988, which inspired the movie 'Cool Runnings' five years later.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 15, 2022
Beijing setting up Olympic bubble featuring daily COVID-19 tests and robot chefs
Unlike last summer's Tokyo Games, which took place in a porous 'bubble,' the perimeters of Beijing's 'closed loop' are sealed and guarded.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 12, 2022
Canada's rookies and veterans out to reclaim women's hockey gold
The team features 13 returning players from the Pyeongchang Games roster and is currently stationed inside a 'bubble' environment in Calgary ahead of its planned Jan. 26 flight to Beijing.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 11, 2022
China says omicron outbreak not affecting Olympic plans yet
Officials remained steadfast that protocols for the Winter Games would remain in place even as the country struggled to contain the fast-spreading variant.

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