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Kontaveit defies seeding to win second WTA Finals group-stage match

  • Tennis

Estonian player Anett Kontaveit has continued to show her seeding is just a number with a second victory from two in the group stage of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Finals in Guadalajara in Mexico.

Croatia and the Slovenian Andreja Klepač then beat Australian Samantha Stosur and Zhang Shuai from China


All 12 Beijing 2022 venues completed and approved by International Federations

  • Beijing 2022

All 12 competition venues for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games have been completed and approved by the respective International Federations at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board meeting in Lausanne.

spectators from the local community, preparations to open ticket sales for the Games, to fans from mainland China


Four track records broken at the ISU Speed Skating World Cup

  • Speed Skating

Both Irene Schouten of The Netherlands and China's Tingyu Gao broke track records at the International Skating Union (ISU) Speed Skating World Cup season opener in Tomaszów Mazowiecki.

B, a 4:07.658 time saw Japan's Misaki Oshigiri beat Nadezhda Morozova of Kazakhstan and Mei Han of China


Olympic gymnastics champion Lee pepper-sprayed in racist attack

  • Gymnastics

American gymnast and Olympic champion Sunisa Lee has claimed she was pepper-sprayed in a racist attack in Los Angeles, being the latest Asian-American victim of a hate crime during the COVID-19 pandemic.

crimes motivated by anti-Asian sentiment had jumped by 1,900 per cent.COVID-19 first originated in China


Biden could receive invite to Beijing 2022 from President Xi at virtual summit

  • Beijing 2022

China’s President Xi Jinping will reportedly invite US counterpart Joe Biden to attend the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Xi is expected to make the invitation at a virtual summit between China and the US next week, according

summit, Chinese Ambassador Qin Gang read out a letter from President Xi at the National Committee on US-China

The China-US relationship is among the most important bilateral relationships in the world today," the

Right now, China-US relations are at a critical historical juncture."

have been strained in recent years, with high tariffs on imports from China introduced by then US President


Two foreign athletes test positive for COVID-19 in Beijing

  • Beijing 2022

Organisers of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games have confirmed that two foreign luge athletes have tested positive for COVID-19 in ongoing test events.

and the Games, but participants must live and compete in isolation from the rest of the population in China


Beijing 2022 rejects claims of restricting media access prior to Winter Olympics

  • Beijing 2022

2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, which were raised by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China

stymying" attempts to cover the build-up to the Games.The group, which represents foreign media outlets in China

from the Beijing Organising Committee as well as the IOC with regards to Olympic-related reporting in China

) as well as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) with regards to Olympic-related reporting in China

.— Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (@fccchina) November 2, 2021"What this organisation said is

inconsistent with the facts and cannot represent the true voice of foreign journalists in China," Beijing



Human Rights Watch calls on Olympic sponsors to put pressure on China before Beijing 2022

  • Beijing 2022

Olympic Committee (IOC) sponsors to explain how they are addressing alleged human rights abuses in China

China's human rights record has been placed under the spotlight in the build-up to Beijing 2022.China

are using their influence to address China’s appalling human rights record," said Sophie Richardson, China

Olympic system they are paying for to stand up for human rights and put an end to rampant abuses in China

Intel, Procter & Gamble and Visa were also questioned by the CECC.The human rights situation in China

The International Trade Union Confederation claimed earlier this week that China should be awarded a



Anti-corruption body appoints group to oversee final Beijing 2022 preparations

  • Beijing 2022

China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection says it has established a group to assess preparations for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games to prevent corruption and oversee COVID-19 measures.

the Government agency, China’s General Administration of Sports, which is responsible for sport in China