Winter Olympics

The Swedish Olympic Committee (SOK) intends to move ahead with a bid to host the Winter Olympics for the first time after a four-month feasibility study showed there was interest in staging the Games in Stockholm. Sweden, a…

Beijing extinguished its Olympic flame on Sunday night, concluding the Winter Olympic Games that will be remembered for the extremes of its anti-COVID-19 measures, thrilling performances and outrage over a doping scandal. Chinese…

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Organising Committee on Monday said zero new COVID-19 cases were detected among games-related personnel on February 20, according to a notice on the Beijing 2022 official website as the Games came to an end.…

Nigerian monobob and skeleton athlete Simidele Adeagbo has lodged a formal complaint with the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF), alleging gender discrimination in the spots allocated to men and women at the Beijing 2022…

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Organising Committee said on Friday that a total of 11 new COVID-19 cases were detected among games-related personnel on February 10th. Two of the cases were found among new airport arrivals, according to a…

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday that he would attend the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics next month with the message that the event "must be an instrument of peace in the world."  His confirmed…

African winter sports athletes will suffer a "crushing blow" unless the International Olympic Committee (IOC) reinstates continental quota spots in bobsleigh and skeleton for the 2022 Beijing Games, sliding sports coaches have said.…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing next year in protest at China's record on human rights violations. An "active discussion" in government is ongoing, with Foreign…

The United States (US) is considering a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics, President Joe Biden confirmed, as the move would be aimed at protesting China's human rights record, including what Washington says is genocide against…

Two foreign athletes have tested positive for COVID-19 during test events for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Huang Chun, an official of the Games organising committee, said on Friday. Both are lugers of the same nationality and have…