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Campaigners call for NBC to cancel plans to broadcast Beijing 2022

  • Beijing 2022

Campaigners have delivered a letter to NBC in Boston urging the broadcaster to cancel plans to show the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing over human rights concerns.

similar campaign was launched against fellow sponsor Airbnb in January.Tensions between the US and China

American authorities joining the European Union, Canada and the United Kingdom in imposing sanctions on China


Shifted Shanghai and second Chinese Diamond League meetings may be post-final exhibition events

  • Athletics

The two Chinese meetings originally planned for this season’s Wanda Diamond League programme, organised by World Athletics, are exploring possible new dates in autumn.

combination of travel restrictions and strict quarantine requirements currently in place for entry into China

discipline can be won in a stand-alone contest.The two scheduled Wanda Diamond League 2021 meetings in China


Dominican Republic to contest final of last baseball qualifier for Tokyo 2020

  • Baseball and Softball

Dominican Republic will compete in the final of the last World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) qualifier for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after overcoming The Netherlands in Mexico.

(@WBSC) June 25, 2021Australia, previous hosts Chinese Taipei and China all withdrew from the qualifier


Brian Oliver: Why weightlifting will spurn golden chance to turn scandal to its advantage at Tokyo 2020

  • Inside the Blogs

Imagine the scene at the Tokyo International Forum on Saturday, July 31.

The final moments of the men's 81 kilograms category at Tokyo 2020, and up steps Lu Xiaojun of China,

television.Commentators forget doping for this session and laud his achievement.Lu is a headline story not just in China

served a two-year doping suspension from 2013 to 2015, when he competed for Azerbaijan.Lu Xiaojun of China


China begins massive roll out of 5G base stations in preparation for Beijing 2022

  • Beijing 2022

been installed in 17 competition venues for next year's Winter Olympic and Paralympics in Beijing as China

China telecommunications infrastructure firm China Tower has begun to oversee the work in arenas and

Chongli expressway, both key transport links for the Games.According to reports in the Chinese media, China

network for the Winter Olympics," Cheng Jiwei, deputy general manager of the Beijing subsidiary of China

2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games is part of a massive upgrade currently being carried out by China

Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom transferred their telecom towers to the new company.The three


Online exhibition links Beijing 2022 with Lake Placid

  • Beijing 2022

An online exhibition has been launched which links two-time Winter Olympic host Lake Placid with Beijing 2022.

"From Lake Placid to Beijing, 2022 Winter Olympics Exhibition" is being run by the China National Tourist

welcome the American people to enjoy the Beijing Winter Olympics, experience Chinese culture, and come to China

to watch the Games," said Lin Kuang, director of the China National Tourist Office in New York.The exhibition

is an example of cooperation between China and the United States at a time when relations have been





Activists for Taiwan rights at Olympics seek meeting with IOC and JOC following petitions

  • Tokyo 2020

An organiser of two online petitions with more than 131,000 signatures, which demand that Taiwan should compete under its own choice of name and flag at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, has requested a meeting with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC).

Since 1984, at the insistence of China, Taiwanese athletes have had to compete at the Games representing

and medallists hear a National Flag Anthem played.Following the Chinese Civil War, the Republic of China

was established on the island of Taiwan, but it is not recognised by the People's Republic of China.

the 1980s, when the IOC ruled that Taiwan could not compete under its formal name, the Republic of China

the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo failed.The Chinese Taipei rules were agreed in the late 1970s after China