China's increasingly bitter trade war with the United States has not impacted preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games so far but organisers admit it could affect planning if a solution is not found.
China's winter sports market is now worth more than $50 billion (£40 billion/€45 billion) and has created 1.5 million jobs, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Evaluation Commission were told as their inspection of preparations for Beijing 2022 concluded here today.
China's athletes preparing for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing have been warned that if they try to take banned drugs in the build-up then they will be caught and punished.
Beijing 2022 has employed the Alibaba Group to run its ticketing programme for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics – a role the Chinese company seems set to fulfil for several editions of the Games afterwards.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission chair Juan Antonio Samaranch claimed today that China's legacy plans for Beijing 2022 are setting a new "landmark for any future event".
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Sir Craig Reedie has praised China's efforts to keep its sport clean as the country promised it would pursue a zero-tolerance policy before it hosts the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing.
Plans are being launched designed to help Beijing's nightlife become more lively by the time the city hosts the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games continue to remain on track, the chair of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission announced here as it begun its latest three-day visit to China.
A strategic cooperation agreement has been signed between the International Ski Federation (FIS) and Chinese digital platform Sina Sports to help promote snow sports in the build-up to the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.
A new high-speed railway linking Hohhot, capital of northern China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, and Zhangjiakou, the co-host city of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, will become operational by the end of this year, it has been announced.
Chinese organisers of the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games will get the opportunity to show off the environmentally-friendly technology it plans to use when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission starts its fourth visit here tomorrow.
Alpine skier Sabrina Wanjiku Simader has received a boost in her bid to compete at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing after she received a scholarship from the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK).
Six-times Olympic champion Viktor Ahn will step up his bid for a place on the Russian short track speed skating team when he competes at qualification events in September.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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