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National and International 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
National and International 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
Nearly 80% of US Olympians signed up for opening ceremony
ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — About 80% of the U.S. team’s athletes signed up to go to Friday’s opening ceremony at the Beijing Olympics, dimming any notion that they would skip the celebration in a show of protest. The U.S.
Feb 4, 2022 1:31 AM
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Russians win in women's hockey after quarantine at Olympics
BEIJING (AP) — The Russian women's hockey team has gone from quarantine to an Olympic win in two days.
Feb 4, 2022 1:29 AM
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EXPLAINER: Why India won't send diplomat to China Olympics
NEW DELHI (AP) — India won’t be sending its top diplomat in Beijing to the Winter Olympics after the honor of carrying the Olympic torch went to a Chinese soldier wounded in a deadly border clash between the countries two years ago.
Feb 4, 2022 1:12 AM
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Going big: Olympic slopestyle course has its own Great Wall
ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Two-time defending Olympic champion Jamie Anderson and her fellow snowboarders will soon be riding right past the Great Wall — a snow replica of it, anyway.
Feb 4, 2022 12:56 AM
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'Nothing is impossible': Injured Polish luger makes Olympics
BEIJING (AP) — Polish luge athlete Mateusz Sochowicz went back to the Peking University hospital this week, entering the facility for the second time this season. The first trip was so doctors could tend to his badly injured legs.
Feb 4, 2022 12:03 AM
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Olympics a sweet, complex homecoming for Chinese diaspora
BEIJING (AP) — When Madison Chock looks outside here in the Chinese capital, the U.S. Olympic ice dancer sees glimpses of herself.
Feb 4, 2022 12:01 AM
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EXPLAINER: Biathlon combines physical demands, mental calm
ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — One analogy often used to describe how it feels to compete in a biathlon race goes like this: “Run up 20 flights of stairs as fast as you can and then try to thread a needle.
Feb 3, 2022 11:13 PM
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Exiled artist Ai Weiwei reflects on Beijing Olympics
BEIJING (AP) — When the artist Ai Weiwei was picked to help design Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics, he hoped the Games and the venue's distinct architecture — the instantly recognizable weave of curving steel beams — would
Feb 3, 2022 9:52 PM
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