Category: Olympic

Leak in Beijing Olympic Village Creates Waterfalls in Athletes’ Dorms

Indelible meals and dirty rooms were far from the end of the unsavory moments coming out of the Beijing Olympic bubble. “Help!” wrote Finnish Olympic skier Katri Lylynpera on Instagram as water gushed through the ceiling and flooded the team’s living quarters after a pipe leakage. A video she posted earlier in the week showed…


China’s Foreign-Sourced Ice Hockey Team Suffer Crushing Defeat to US on Olympic Debut

China had put its Olympic hockey hopes on a team composed of mostly foreign-born players. But reality hit hard on their debut. On Thursday night before 1,000 spectators, the Chinese hockey squad, packed with foreign-born recruits from the United States and Canada, was beaten 8-0 by a fresh-faced U.S. team. For some, the outcome was…


China’s Foreign-Sourced Ice Hockey Team Suffers Crushing Defeat to US on Olympic Debut

China had put its Olympic hockey hopes on a team composed of mostly foreign-born players. But reality hit hard on their debut. On Thursday night before 1,000 spectators, the Chinese hockey squad, packed with foreign-born recruits from the United States and Canada, was beaten 8-0 by a fresh-faced U.S. team. For some, the outcome was…


Behind the Outrage Over Eileen Gu and China’s Treatment of Women; Uyghur Torchbearer Speaks Out on China

Eileen Gu is in hot water. Her choice to compete for Team China is sparking outrage, a reflection of a deeper societal problem in China—all this through the perspective of four Chinese women. We take a deeper look at how the Chinese Communist Party is behind all of it, and we take a look at…


UN Whistleblower Details China’s Special Treatment on Human Rights | China Insider With David Zhang

A whistleblower says the United Nations (U.N.) is complicit in genocide for providing a list of names of those that speak against Beijing; others say China is co-opting international organizations. All the while, the U.N. is slowing their report of China’s human rights abuses, while the Olympic Games in China are going on. As human…


China Bets on US-Born Players to Win Gold at Beijing Olympics

Bay Area-born freestyle skier Eileen Gu crashed the Chinese internet after winning gold for China on her debut at the Beijing Winter Olympics, the first of three she hopes to claim on behalf of her mother’s home country. “The future is bright” for Gu and her teammates, read a Feb. 8 letter from China’s Winter…


China Recruits US-Born Athletes to Boost Beijing’s Olympic Gold Medal Drive

Bay Area-born freestyle skier Eileen Gu crashed the Chinese internet after winning gold for China on her debut at the Beijing Winter Olympics, the first of three she hopes to claim on behalf of her mother’s home country. “The future is bright” for Gu and her teammates, read a Feb. 8 letter from China’s Winter…


Most Political Olympics Ever? Why China Always Politicizes Everything, Explained

China is making the Olympics political—meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin and accusing the United States of sabotage, while at the same time trying to spy on athletes. The U.N. and its human rights councils are slow-walking reports and visits after the Olympics. So how do we interpret China’s goal in all this? Perhaps secret speeches…


Olympic Venues ‘Right Alongside Prison Camps’: Torture, Detention Occurring Miles Away From Beijing Games

NEW YORK—The opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics contained all the pageantry that one might expect from an authoritarian regime eager to use the event to burnish its global image: hundreds of children holding dove-shaped props formed the shape of a heart as they danced on a star-lit stadium, as green and white fireworks…


Japan’s Yoshika to Return Home after Slopestyle Crash

ZHANGJIAKOU, China—Japanese snowboarder Rina Yoshika suffered a heavy fall in training on the slopestyle course at the Genting Snow Park on Thursday and will return home, a Team Japan spokesperson said in a statement. Yoshika crash-landed from one of the jumps during a practice run and lay motionless before a medical team rushed to help….