Beijing Olympics

'Olympic flame doused': Chinese exile calls for boycott of Beijing Winter Games over Uyghur genocide

Kamaltuk Yalqun was a torchbearer in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Now an activist in US, he is urging world leaders to condemn China's persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang

At 20, Beijing reports highest COVID-19 cases since June 2020 as Winter Olympics loom

China will hold the Games in a strict 'closed-loop' bubble as part of its zero-COVID strategy of targeted lockdowns, border restrictions and lengthy quarantines

Speak out against 'genocide games': Activists urge athletes participating in Beijing Olympics

Over a million Uyghurs have been confined in reeducation camps in Xinjiang region of China. Activists say China is trying to whitewash this repression of Uyghurs, referred as 'genocide' by US, through the Games

'Stop interfering in Beijing Olympics', China tells US amid diplomatic boycott of the event

The US has said it will not send dignitaries to the Games, which will begin on 4 February, in protest over China’s detention of more than a million Uyghur Muslims in the northwestern region of Xinjiang

Winter Olympics 2022: Amnesty warns over 'sportswashing' at Beijing

The Amnesty report comes after US lawmakers on Tuesday called on the UN human rights chief to release a report on Xinjiang, where Washington accuses China of perpetrating a genocide against minority Uyghur Muslims

Winter Olympics 2022: Omicron scare in China's Tianjin ahead of extravaganza

Tianjin was the first Chinese city to report a few cases of Omicron in mid-December but not much was heard of its spread since then while major spike in cases was reported from the tourist city of Xian and a few other cities,

Banned from the Olympics by IOC, North Korea puts blame on COVID-19, 'hostile forces'

In September 2021, the International Olympic Committee suspended North Korea through 2022 for refusing to send a team to the Tokyo Summer Games, citing the pandemic.

Winter Olympics 2022: South Korea says no boycott, wants to maintain harmonious relation with China

Moon Jae-in stressed that South Korea wanted to promote a free and open Pacific region, but also had to consider China's role in trying to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula

Why the US-led diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics may be misplaced

This decision is an example of constructive ambiguity, a negotiating tactic widely credited to Henry Kissinger, one of the US's preeminent diplomats

From Peng Shuai to Xinjiang: Beijing Olympics overshadowed by several controversies

With just over 70 days to go, here's look at the issues hanging over the Olympics