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OLYMPICS

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Figure Skating
Oct 19, 2021
Nathan Chen says he has grown since disappointing Pyeongchang Games
The reigning world champion said he now realizes that every competition is an opportunity to show the work he has been putting into his craft.
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OLYMPICS
Oct 19, 2021
Team USA to have plenty of mental health support in Beijing
Licensed mental health officers will be made available to U.S. athletes competing in Beijing along with therapists and psychiatrists at both the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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MORE SPORTS
Oct 18, 2021
Mikaela Shiffrin hoping to play right cards during World Cup season and Olympics
The 2021-22 campaign is shaping up as a season of big dreams for the 26-year-old American, who is eager to reassert herself as the sport's dominant athlete.
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OLYMPICS
Oct 18, 2021
IOC's Juan Antonio Samaranch says Beijing Games about unity
Rights groups have called on the IOC to relocate the Games unless China ends what the United States deems ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups.
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OLYMPICS
Oct 15, 2021
Organizers and protesters gearing up for Beijing Winter Olympics
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will come into sharp focus with the ceremonial torch-lighting ceremony on Monday, but opposition to the Games continues to grow more vocal.
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OLYMPICS
Oct 14, 2021
U.S. star Allyson Felix says she was never chasing Carl Lewis
Allyson Felix said surpassing Carl Lewis as the most decorated U.S. track and field athlete was "never a goal" but that it was "amazing" to have achieved the feat after winning her 11th Olympic medal at the Tokyo Games.
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BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2021
Beijing Olympic sponsors face a $110 billion dilemma
Outside of China, politicians and human rights groups have been pushing the companies to use their platform to condemn Beijing's treatment of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
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OLYMPICS
Oct 13, 2021
IOC's John Coates rules out pressuring China over human rights
Rights groups have called on the IOC to postpone next year's Games and relocate the event unless China ends what the United States deems ongoing genocide against Uyghurs.
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Oct 12, 2021
A surprise sports hero broadens Italy’s image of itself
Lamont Marcell Jacobs, the son of a Black American father and white Italian mother, has broadened the public imagination of what Italian athletes, and Italians, can look like.
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OLYMPICS
Oct 6, 2021
Salt Lake City ready to bid for Winter Games, but which one a mystery
The 2002 host has secured venue and hotel contracts, but has not decided if it will pursue the 2030 or 2034 edition of the Winter Games.
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Oct 5, 2021
Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid named to Canada's initial Beijing squad
There were no surprises in Canada's early selections given that NHL players are set to return to the Olympics after the league skipped the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.
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OLYMPICS
Sep 30, 2021
Beijing Olympics to allow spectators from mainland China
Tickets for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will be sold to spectators from mainland China only, while unvaccinated athletes must spend 21 days in quarantine ahead of the Games.
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Sep 25, 2021
Asia's fastest man sees bright future for Chinese sprinting
Su led the United team — essentially China's national squad — to gold in the 4x100 meters relay at the National Games on Friday
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OLYMPICS
Sep 23, 2021
U.S. will require athletes to be fully vaccinated in order to compete at Beijing Games
A letter written by USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland says the requirement 'will also apply to our full Team USA delegation at future Olympic and Paralympic Games.'
CULTURE / Music / Sound Off
Sep 22, 2021
How do you deflect a controversy? Keigo Oyamada blames the media.
Musician Keigo Oyamada cries foul over how he was portrayed in a pair of magazine articles that ended up causing him a job at the Tokyo Olympics.
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OLYMPICS
Sep 17, 2021
New Los Angeles Games CEO promises 2028 Olympics will be 'on time and on budget'
CEO Kathy Carter said the 'no build' Games will utilize the city's wide array of existing sports facilities and will cost about $6.9 billion.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Sep 17, 2021
Parting words from Japan's Olympians and Paralympians
Short and sweet, the soundbites Japanese athletes gave to the press are sure to help you in expressing both happiness and disappointment.

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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.