Beijing 2022: Olympic Winter Games

[Brian in Mesa]

Beijing 2022 Olympics - Next Winter Olympic Games

Beijing 2022 will host the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, 4-20 Feb. Follow as China prepares for the Games across three zones: Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou. The Beijing zone will provide the venues for the opening and closing ceremonies as well as the ice sports competitions.

olympics.com

 

[Brian in Mesa]

‘China will be China’: Why journalists are taking burner phones to the Beijing Olympics​

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/journalists-beijing-olympics-china-covid-restrictions/2022/01/19/35287322-7347-11ec-8b0a-bcfab800c430_story.html

Journalists covering the Winter Olympics next month say they’ll do their work in Beijing on brand-new cellphones and laptops. When the games are over, they’ll simply leave them behind or throw them away.

The reason: Reporters are concerned that any devices they use there could become infected with tracking software, enabling Chinese authorities to spy on their contents. Hence, the use of “burner” phones and computers.

The Committee to Protect Journalists cast the situation in Orwellian terms. “Assume your hotel room is under surveillance,” the New York-based advocacy group warned in a “safety advisory” last week. “Assume that everything you do online will be monitored. Any call made using a hotel landline or cell phone is not encrypted and can be intercepted. . . . Any conversation you have in your hotel room may be subject to eavesdropping.”

 

[Brian in Mesa]

NBC Sports will not send broadcasters to Beijing Olympics due to COVID-19 concerns​

NBC Sports will not send broadcasters to Beijing Olympics due to COVID-19 concerns

NBC Sports planned to have broadcasters on site in Beijing for three events.

sports.yahoo.com

NBC Sports is pulling back its Beijing Olympics broadcasting teams due to concerns over COVID-19, according to Christine Brennan of USA Today.

NBC Sports' senior vice president of communications Greg Hughes confirmed the news Wednesday, telling USA Today broadcasters will announce the games at a facility in Connecticut.

NBC Sports made the move due to the presence of the Omicron variant. Beijing recorded its first Omicron case Saturday. COVID-19 cases have also risen in the United States due to the variant.

Athletes and media members traveling to Beijing for the Olympics could face weeks of quarantine if they test positive for the virus.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Uncertainty looms over men’s figure skating following US skater Vincent Zhou’s positive test​

American Vincent Zhou pulls out of men’s figure skating, but it appears Nathan Chen is a go - The Boston Globe

With the men's short program on tap Monday, the positive test raises concern that US star Nathan Chen could also test positive.

www.bostonglobe.com

 

[Folster]

Does anyone else think that judged sporting events should be removed from the Olympics. Some of these events are just ridiculously subjective.

 

[dscher]

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[Ronin]

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[Brian in Mesa]

Lindsey Jacobellis claims the first gold medal for the U.S. at the 2022 Winter Olympics​

MSN

www.msn.com

Lindsey Jacobellis (Roxbury, CT) picked up the U.S.’s first gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics with a win in Women’s Snowboard Cross on Wednesday.

At 36-years-old, Jacobellis is now the oldest American woman to win a winter Olympic medal of any color in any sport and the oldest snowboard medalist ever. The Beijing Winter Games marks the fifth Olympic appearance for the Connecticut native. It has been 16 years since Jacobellis, who was not expected to contend for a medal in Beijing, has finished on the Olympic podium.

 

[Ronin]

Russia at center of another Olympic doping controversy

At the 2014 Olympics, Russia ran a sophisticated operation to cover up performance-enhancing drug use. Now, eight years later, it appears they may be following the same script.

sports.yahoo.com

 

[Dback Jon]

Russia at center of another Olympic doping controversy

At the 2014 Olympics, Russia ran a sophisticated operation to cover up performance-enhancing drug use. Now, eight years later, it appears they may be following the same script.

sports.yahoo.com

It was BS of the IOC to allow Russian athletes and teams to compete at all. They should be banned for a decade or more - not just the flag, but the athletes themselves

 

[Ronin]

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