Tag: Beijing Winter Olympics

Global Supply Chain Crisis Deteriorates During Lunar New Year, Beijing Winter Olympics

The Chinese New Year holiday, which lasted nearly one week, along with the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Communist ruling regime’s “zero tolerance” epidemic policy might exacerbate the global supply chain crisis amidst severe disruptions in global shipping, expects said. Container tracking platform Container xChange said in a late January survey that 66 percent of…


Global Supply Chain Crisis Deteriorates During Lunar New Year, Beijing Winter Olympics: Experts

The Chinese New Year holiday, which lasted nearly one week, along with the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Communist ruling regime’s “zero tolerance” epidemic policy might exacerbate the global supply chain crisis amidst severe disruptions in global shipping, experts said. Container tracking platform Container xChange said in a late January survey that 66 percent of…


Chinese Social Media Platforms Deletes Thousands of Posts Following Online Abuse of Athletes

As the Games cast an international spotlight on China, the country’s largest social media platform Weibo scrubbed tens of thousands of posts “related to the Beijing Winter Olympic,” in an effort to stem an onslaught of online abuse directed at underperforming Chinese athletes. Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, deleted over 41,000 posts and suspended or…


Belarusian Skier Flees Country after Ban for Political Views

BEIJING—A Belarusian cross-country skier has fled the country with her family because of fears of reprisals by authorities after she was barred from competition over the family’s political views, she and her father said. Darya Dolidovich and her family are now in Poland, where she hopes to continue training, Sergei Dolidovich, a seven-time Olympian cross-country…


US First Olympic Gold by Lindsey Jacobellis

In her fifth Olympic competition, Lindsey Jacobellis won her first gold medal in the Women’s Snowboard Cross for the United States at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Wednesday at Genting Snow Park; a reprieve after losing a last-second lead at Turin in 2006. Sixteen years ago, Jacobellis slipped as she prematurely celebrated while grabbing her board, losing her lead…


US Wins First Olympic Gold in Beijing Winter Olympics

In her fifth Olympic competition, Lindsey Jacobellis won her first gold medal in the Women’s Snowboard Cross for the United States at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Wednesday at Genting Snow Park; a reprieve after losing a last-second lead at Turin in 2006. Sixteen years ago, Jacobellis slipped as she prematurely celebrated while grabbing her board, losing her lead…


‘I Couldn’t Hold it Back’: US-born Chinese Figure Skater Breaks Down After Another Fall at Beijing 2022

A tearful American-born Chinese figure skater triggered a fierce backlash on Chinese social media for slipping up during her performance two days in a row at the Beijing Winter Olympics. The 19-year-old burst into tears before she could finish her routine, after falling twice and finishing last during the team event’s women’s singles free skating on…


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…


Human Rights Advocates Condemn CCP for Imprisoning 11 Falun Gong Practitioners Ahead of Beijing Winter Olympics

Human rights advocates are condemning the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for sentencing 11 Falun Gong practitioners to up to eight years in prison just weeks before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics on Feb. 4. The heavy-handed sentences on Jan. 14 again draw attention to the regime’s human rights abuses as it seeks to…


‘Where Is Peng Shuai?’: Tennis Australia Sides With Beijing

Commentary Over the weekend, reports emerged that the security service of the Australian Tennis Open, assisted by police, had ordered a spectator to remove her T-shirt that featured an image of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai on the front and the message “Where is Peng Shuai?” on the back. The 36-year-old player won the Doubles…