Olympic Games (2022)
Yuzuru Hanyu Retires and Figure Skating Won’t Be the Same
Yuzuru Hanyu, the two-time Olympic champion, said on Tuesday that he would no longer participate in competitions, and the landscape of the sport of figure skating will never be the same. To get an idea of how much he has meant to his sport for the past dozen years, consider some of the fans who […]
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Figure Skating Will Raise Age Limit to 17
Figure skating’s global governing body voted Tuesday to gradually increase the minimum age limit for elite competitors to 17 over the next three years. It characterized the move as an effort to safeguard “the physical and mental health, and emotional well-being” of skaters, but made its decision only after facing worldwide criticism for a doping […]
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China Asked Russia to Delay Ukraine War Until After Olympics, U.S. Officials Say
China and Russia have been strengthening their economic, diplomatic and military ties for years. Mr. Xi and Mr. Putin met 37 times as national leaders before their discussions in Beijing ahead of the Olympics. The ambitious joint statement that the two nations issued during that meeting alarmed American and European officials, especially because it was […]
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Paralympics Will Allow Russian Athletes to Compete
BEIJING — Organizers of the Beijing Winter Paralympics will allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete when the Games open this week, despite mounting pressure to exclude Russia and its teams from global sports as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine. The executive board of the International Paralympic Committee, which organizes the Games, declared […]
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‘Abrupt Changes’: China Caught in a Bind Over Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
As Russian troops have poured into Ukraine, officials in Beijing have fumed at any suggestion that they are betraying a core principle of Chinese foreign policy — that sovereignty is sacrosanct — in order to shield Moscow. They will not even call it an invasion. “Russia’s operation” is one preferred description. The “current situation” is […]
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Valieva Had 3 Substances Sometimes Used to Help the Heart in Sample
A sample provided by a teenage Russian figure skater to an antidoping laboratory before the Beijing Games included three substances that are sometimes used to help the heart, according to a document filed in her arbitration hearing on Sunday. The skater, Kamila Valieva, was cleared to continue competing in the Games by a panel of […]
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Kamila Valieva Can Compete but Won’t Receive Medals
Update: Kamila Valieva‘s sample had three substances sometimes used to help the heart. BEIJING — On Tuesday, Kamila Valieva, one of the Olympics’ youngest and biggest stars, will take to the ice and, if all goes as she plans, perform spinning jump after spinning jump on her way to an expected victory in women’s figure […]
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Valieva Falls and Shcherbakova Rises in a Blur of Jumps, Tumbles and Tears
Although Valieva landed her first jump, a quad salchow, she fell on two other jumps, looking disoriented as she struggled to right herself. In a perplexing performance that shocked even herself, she had errors on nearly every single jump, including her normally high-soaring quadruple jumps that she usually lands with barely a sound. The audience […]
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Thomas Bach, IOC President, Rebukes a Chinese Official Over Political Comments
Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, issued what amounted to a rare and surprising rebuke of a Chinese Olympic official during a news conference Friday. His remarks came after Yan Jiarong, a spokeswoman for the Beijing Olympics, made comments at a news conference the previous day that seemed to violate Olympic rules […]
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