Winter Olympics Beijing 2022

US figure skaters to receive 2022 Olympic team gold after Valieva disqualified

Members of the US Olympic figure skating team learned late Monday they will receive gold medals following Kamila Valieva disqualification

Guardian sport and agencies

30, Jan, 2024 @1:02 PM

‘Everyone forgets about you’: Erin Jackson on returning home after Olympics gold

After making history in Beijing, the speed skater faces life after the spotlight, with sponsorships, training and changing the sport on her mind

Bryan Armen Graham

16, May, 2022 @6:00 AM

The Kamila Valieva case shows yet again that the IOC is betraying teen athletes

This rotten organisation stood by while the 15-year-old skater and her Olympic dreams were publicly crushed, says campaigner Sarah Klein

Sarah Klein

24, Feb, 2022 @2:39 PM

First the IOC, now Nato: how Putin’s Russia refuses to play by the rules | Jonathan Liew

The scandal surrounding Kamila Valieva at the Winter Olympics raises fears the regime may end the teenager’s career before it has a chance to begin

Jonathan Liew

22, Feb, 2022 @8:00 AM

Weatherwatch: extreme weather hits Olympics, Brazil and northern Europe

Blizzards hinder Winter Olympic events in China while intense rainfall and storms elsewhere cause fatalities and damage

Alice Fowle (Metdesk)

22, Feb, 2022 @6:00 AM

Kamila Valieva horror show proves the price of Olympic gold is too high | Cath Bishop

This is not a problem happening just in Russia – a win-at-all-costs mentality is affecting young athletes more than ever

Cath Bishop

21, Feb, 2022 @7:00 PM

Winter Olympics funding will not just be guided by medals, says UK sport chair

Katherine Grainger has said grassroots participation will help to determine future funding for Winter Olympic sports as well as medal potential

Tumaini Carayol

21, Feb, 2022 @4:50 PM

Journalists’ group ‘dismayed’ by treatment at Beijing Winter Olympics

Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China says reporters tailed and manhandled by security despite assurances from Games officials

Helen Davidson in Taipei

21, Feb, 2022 @3:26 PM

Winter Olympics: highs, lows, heroes and villains of Beijing 2022

Our writers pick their best moments, from Alexandra Trusova’s extraordinary rant to Erin Jackson’s groundbreaking gold

Sean Ingle, Bryan Armen Graham and Martin Belam

21, Feb, 2022 @12:05 PM

The Olympics face an existential crisis. An American-led effort could save them | Steve Mesler and Jeff Porter

The Olympic movement risks lurching even further into an existential crisis if major problems aren’t addressed, and many of the levers for change lie in Americans’ hands

Steve Mesler and Jeff Porter

21, Feb, 2022 @10:00 AM

A Winter Olympics that was farcical, disturbing and often exceptional | Sean Ingle

The soul-destroying story of the young Russian skater Kamila Valieva will stick in the memory for all the wrong reasons

Sean Ingle in Beijing

20, Feb, 2022 @5:59 PM

Winter Olympics day 16: GB win women’s curling gold before closing ceremony – as it happened

Team GB’s women won curling gold before a Beijing closing ceremony to a Games embroiled in controversy

Martin Belam (now), with Luke McLaughlin, Jonathan Horn and Beau Dure (earlier)

20, Feb, 2022 @2:08 PM

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