Beijing Games

Host country wins eight medals on opening day of action

Two-time Olympic gold medallist after ‘mindboggling’ third failure to finish in China

Russian figure skater prepares to compete in women’s singles event at Beijing Olympics

Olympians, returning positive tests, complain about nightmarish quarantine conditions

Olympic snowboard champion says riders not being scored ‘accurately’ despite ‘putting their lives on the line’

Swiss alpine skier clocks total of 1:13:51 to win Olympic super-G gold while another Swiss claimed bronze

American figure skater claims elusive major prize, 20 points ahead of his nearest challenger

Swiss Kummer, who was knocked out of Olympic event at round of 16, says she doesn’t ‘care what people think of her’

Olympics committee terms incident 'isolated event', says it won't affect foreign media's reporting at the event

Canadian snowboarder fights cancer to compete at Olympics saying quitting was "never an option"

The mayors recently wrote to Xi, extending their Spring Festival greetings to the Chinese president

Build-up to Games has been muted, with absence of slogans, floral arrangements, flags

Country’s China-policy making council says athletes would compete in the Games

Stringent Covid measures and loss of ticket sale revenues pushing up expenses for hosts China

Tokyo 2020 chief believes Winter Games in Beijing can thrive without full stadiums

Head of Human Rights Watch, calling on more countries to join diplomatic boycott over rights abuses by China

Head of World Athletics feels political boycotts are pointless and ineffective

Organisers hope to limit spread of virus by cocooning almost every person involved in a ‘closed loop’

IOC official Pound says ‘there’s nothing wrong’ with Winter Games hosts from sporting perspective