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Will successfully hold 2022 Winter Olympics despite Omicron concerns: China

China will successfully hold the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games on schedule, despite the worldwide spread of the new Omicron coronavirus strain, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said

UK government says no plans for ministers to attend Beijing Winter Olympics

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the UK Leader of the House of Commons on Thursday confirmed that "no tickets have been booked" for UK government ministers to attend the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.The announcement was made in response to a question from Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP, co-chair of the cross-party Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), on whether the UK government would announce a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics.Jacob Rees-Mogg answered: "...It is up to the British Olympics Committee to decide whether or not athletes go. As regards Government Ministers, whether they would wish to go to the People's Republic of China, I can tell the honourable gentleman that no tickets have been booked."The announcement follows growing international momentum behind a diplomatic boycott of the Games, with the Biden Administration reportedly set to announce that no US government officials will be attending the Games, IPAC said in a statement.The move comes amidst global concern for ...

Putin to attend Beijing Winter Olympics amid US diplomatic boycott plans

Putin's visit to Beijing to take part in the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in February next year will make him the first state leader to meet face to face with Xi since the outbreak of Covid

Mike Pompeo backs growing calls for boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday (local time) backed growing calls for a boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics next year over human rights issues in China."The CCP has disappeared reporters writing about Wuhan virus, docs telling the truth about CCP labs, a prof tennis player, Uighurs, Hong Kongers & the head of Interpol. Let's disappear the Olympics from them and hold it in a place the world can be proud of. #BoycottBeijingOlympics," Pompeo tweeted.This comes a few days after US President Joe Biden said that his administration was considering a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.Asked about the possibility of the boycott during an Oval Office meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, Biden responded that it was "something we are considering", NBC News reported.The White House usually sends a delegation to the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics but under a diplomatic boycott, they would not send the delegation. ...

Column: Where is Peng Shuai? Why isn't the IOC speaking out?

The tennis community has reacted with justifiable outrage

China chides Biden for considering diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics

China has hit out at US President Joe Biden for considering a diplomatic boycott of next year's Beijing Games

After US, UK mulls diplomatic boycott of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: Rpts

According to reports, the UK government is actively discussing the possibility of not sending officials to the Winter Olympics in Beijing

Disappearance of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai spells disaster for Beijing

Beijing is facing a storm of its own making, as the global women's tennis community rises up to challenge Chinese authorities for silencing one of its peers

China hits out at Biden for considering boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics

China lashed out at Joe Biden for considering a diplomatic boycott of Winter Olympic Games over China's human rights abuses, saying Washington is trying to politicise the international sporting event

US 'considering' diplomatic boycott of China Olympics, says Joe Biden

Biden said Thursday that the United States was considering a diplomatic boycott of next year's Winter Olympics in Beijing over China's human rights abuses

US planning diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics, say reports

Weighing how to approach the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the US administration is considering the possibility of a diplomatic boycott, but so far it has not reached on final conclusion

Chinese Premier Xi likely to invite Joe Biden to Winter Olympics: Report

Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to extend a personal invitation to US President Joe Biden to attend the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in February

Olympic flame arrives in Beijing amid boycott calls from critics

The Olympic flame arrived in Beijing on Wednesday amid calls from overseas critics for a boycott of the Feb. 4-20 Winter Games. Beijing's Communist Party Secretary Cai Qi, the top official in the Chinese capital, received the flame at a closely-guarded airport ceremony. Beijing successfully hosted the Summer Olympics in 2008, although the event failed to produce the more open political and social environment in China that many had hoped for. Activist groups disrupted the flame lighting ceremony in southern Greece on Monday, accusing the International Olympic Committee of granting legitimacy to rights abuses in China. IOC officials have said they are committed to seeing the competition go ahead and that rights issues are not part of their remit. Speaking in the ancient stadium of Olympia, IOC President Thomas Bach said the Games must be respected as politically neutral ground. Activists on Tuesday said human rights in China have deteriorated since 2008, claiming that the Summer Ga

China keeps coronavirus at bay ahead of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

China's zero tolerance strategy of trying to isolate every case and stop transmission of the coronavirus has kept the country of 1.4 billion people largely free of the disease

Host gets the most: Here's a surefire way to lift your Olympic medal count

A look at the count of gold, silver, and bronze shows that the host country gets a significant boost, one that persists in subsequent games

US lawmakers press corporate sponsors to boycott Beijing Winter Olympics

A group of US lawmakers on Tuesday (local time) urged corporate sponsors to back out of the 2022 Beijing Olympics, over human rights violations in China's Xinjiang province.US Congressmen invited the representatives from domestic firms who sponsor the Olympics to a hearing to address how they could leverage their influence to insist on concrete human rights improvements in China.Senator Jeff Merkley, chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), in his opening remarks said the hearing was not meant to attack or embarrass individual companies but rather to explore how key Olympic movement stakeholders, corporate stakeholders, could use their influence to ensure the Olympics live up to its values."Holding the 2022 Winter Olympics in China and allowing its authoritarian government to reap the rewards in its prestige and propaganda of hosting this globally-beloved event does not uphold the Olympic spirit," he said.Representative James McGovern said, "unless things ...

Ski mountaineering added to 2026 Winter Olympics programme

The 138th IOC session unanimously approved on Tuesday the inclusion of ski mountaineering in the programme of the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan-Cortina, Italy

China slams Winter Olympics boycott call, 'politicization of sports'

The British Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee called for the government to urge British companies to boycott the Beijing Games, scheduled for February.

Donald Trump against boycotting Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022

Amid growing calls for boycotting of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics due to "gross violations of human rights" by Chinese government, former US President Donald Trump said that he does not agree with it

US lawmakers urge IOC to consider other locations for Beijing Olympics

In May, a bipartisan bill was introduced pressing American corporate sponsors of the IOC to urge the international committee to move the games