China's Gu Ailing Eileen competes in the freestyle skiing women's freeski big air qualification run during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the Big Air Shougang in Beijing on February 7, 2022. (AFP) Californian-born teenage freestyle skier Eileen Gu won gold for China on her Olympic debut...
Asa Miller and dad Kelly ride a chairlift on their way to the training and competition venues YANQING —Ask Asa Miller to differentiate a fast ball from a curved ball or sinker and you’d surely get a precise answer. Miller, now a two-time Olympic alpine skier, spent some time behind the plate as...
Russia's Kamila Valieva takes part in a figure skating training session at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing on February 2, 2022, ahead of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Games. (AFP) Ukraine's sports minister on Wednesday urged the country's athletes to avoid Russians at the upcoming Olympics...
Canada's and South Korea's short track speed skaters take part in a training session at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing on January 31, 2022 ahead of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Games. (AFP) The sporting action gets under way at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Wednesday, two days before...
Philippine Olympic Committee president Bambol Tolentino is expecting a significant improvement from Alpine skier Asa Miller when he competes in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics next month. Winter Olympian skier Asa Miller (Asa Miller's Instagram) The 21-year-old Miller will be competing in the...
People walk past the logos of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing on January 18, 2022. (AFP) China topped the medals table at its 2008 Summer Olympics but expectations are much lower for next month's Beijing Games as the country attempts to build a winter sports...
A man walks past the logos of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games in Shougang Park, one of the sites for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, in Beijing on December 7, 2021. (AFP) Australia will not send officials to February's Winter Olympics in Beijing, Prime Minister Scott...
People walk past the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics logo at the Shougang Park in Beijing on December 1, 2021. (AFP) The United States Monday announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, a calibrated rebuke of China's human rights record that stops short of preventing US...
US President Joe Biden greets wellwishers after speaking on infrastructure at the NH 175 bridge over the Pemigewasset River in Woodstock, New Hampshire on November 16, 2021. (AFP) The idea of a "diplomatic boycott" by the United States of the winter Olympic Games in Beijing in February -- to...
An agent tries to stop protesters holding the Tibetan flag and banner as they crash the flame lighting ceremony for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at the Ancient Olympia archeological site, birthplace of the ancient Olympics in southern Greece on October 18, 2021. (AFP) Activists grabbed the...
In this file photo taken on August 12, 2008 US swimmer Klete Keller smiles after winning the men's 4 x 200m freestyle relay swimming heat at the National Aquatics Center in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. (Photo by Greg WOOD / AFP) Two-time US Olympic swim champion Klete Keller was...
Beijing 2022 organizers were "pressing ahead" with preparations for the Winter Olympics Friday after a senior IOC official warned the coronavirus could force the Games to be postponed. Former World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President and former IOC vice president Richard Pound (Photo by Fabrice...
