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Olympic champion Kim top qualifier in women’s halfpipe at FIS Snowboard and Freeski World Championships

  • Snowboard

Chloe Kim, the American who is the current World, Olympic, Youth Olympic and X Games champion in the halfpipe, comfortably topped women’s qualifying in the discipline at the International Ski Federation (FIS) Snowboard and Freeski World Championships in Aspen.

also of the United States, with 84.75.Double Winter Youth Olympic gold medallist Gu Ailing Eileen of China



Chinese Olympic Committee offer vaccines for Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 teams

  • Tokyo 2020

The Chinese Olympic Committee has offered to make vaccine doses available to participants at the Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Games, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has revealed.

countries are using vaccines produced by China.The BBC has reported that the vaccines developed by China


USOPC President Lyons says there will be no boycott of Beijing 2022 over human rights issues

  • Beijing 2022

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) says it will not boycott the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing despite calls for action over China’s human rights record.

While we would never want to minimise what is happening from a human rights perspective in China, we

Last month a group of US senators introduced a resolution seeking to remove the Games from China, urging

China has come under pressure due to the treatment of Uighur Muslims, its stance towards Taiwan, and

a clampdown on Hong Kong.A crackdown in Hong Kong is among several human rights issues that China has


FIBA confirms participants at upcoming Under-19 Basketball World Cup tournaments

  • Basketball

The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has announced the participants at the upcoming Under-19 Men’s and Women’s Basketball World Cups, due to take place in Latvia and Hungary.

Basketball World Cup by Americas participants United States, Canada, Argentina and Puerto Rico.Australia, China

Czech Republic.The US, Canada, Brazil and Argentina were awarded the Americas spots, while Australia, China



European resorts set to benefit from Chinese upsurge in winter sports interest since Beijing 2022 award

  • Beijing 2022

A successful Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics could lead to a marked increase in Chinese winter sports tourism, with experts suggesting that European ski resorts may need to adapt to cater for new demands.

A recent white paper by the China Tourism Academy highlighted the fast-paced growth of winter sports

in China in recent years, while European resorts have already experienced a sizeable increase in mainland

arrivals since Beijing was awarded the 2022 Games in 2015, the South China Morning Post reports."

The academy report, "2021 China Ice and Snow Tourism Development", said ice and snow sports in China

three years, with the bulk of that amount being spent in 2018 and 2019.The number of ski resorts in China


Basketball's Lin condemns COVID-19-related violence towards Asian people

  • Basketball

American basketball player Jeremy Lin has spoken out about racist violence and hate crimes towards Asian people during the COVID-19 pandemic after his final game of the season.

First it's tragic and heartbreaking," said the Santa Cruz Warriors point guard to the South China Morning

A guy yesterday was yelling at a gym manager to go back to China."

COVID-19 originated in China, with many politicians in the United States blaming the nation for the pandemic



Chinese Taekwondo and Karate Association President Guan discusses Tokyo 2020 preparations

  • Taekwondo

Chinese Taekwondo and Karate Association President Guan Jianmin has discussed preparations for this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo.

 China is the second highest performing country in the latter sport at the Games, behind South Korea.The

 Guan has also predicted there is a 70 per cent chance of China winning a karate gold medal at Tokyo



Richard Pound: President Bach's re-election will come as a relief to IOC members

  • Inside the Blogs

In 2013, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) elected Thomas Bach, an Olympic fencing gold medallist at the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976, as its ninth President. This outcome was not surprising on either a personal or organisational basis. 

And also, with respect, China can consider taking some steps to mitigate the reputational damage from

certain aspects of its conduct: the world is too interconnected for any country, including China, to


Hangzhou 2022 Opening and Closing Ceremony venue earns construction accolade

  • Hangzhou 2022

The venue which will hold the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games has received the highest award in China's construction industry.

just over 80,000.It is located at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Expo City.The venue has been given the China

industry and is held under the guidance of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the China

 The main stadium of the #Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center was awarded the China Construction Engineering

 China is due to stage the Games for the first time since Guangzhou played host in 2010.According


Olympic champion Lin seeks Chinese citizenship for Beijing 2022 amid potential South Korean ban

  • Short Track

Olympic gold medallist Lim Hyo-jun, who faces a ban from the South Korean national team due to sexual harassment, has reportedly applied for Chinese citizenship to allow him to compete at Beijing 2022.

Winter Olympics.South Korean news agency Yonhap said Lim has received an offer of citizenship from China

the doping scandal - with criticism aimed at the Federation.Lim’s potential change of allegiance to China


Budapest 2032 Committee to continue to study feasibility of Olympic bid

  • Brisbane 2032

A panel established by the Hungarian Olympic Committee (HOC) to look into the feasibility of staging the Olympics in capital Budapest in 2032 is to continue to do so while it awaits a meeting with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to discuss the status of the Games.

Olympics, and last week insisted that it was still committed to staging the event.India, Indonesia, China