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Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics: ENDS With Grand Fireworks Closing Ceremony
China Postpones Beijing Marathon Due to COVID Surge
China Battles Worst COVID Outbreak Since Wuhan China has postponed the Beijing marathon until further notice, amid a surge in coronavirus infections. BBC News 25 OCT 2021. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...1034573512.jpg It comes as the country's top health official warned that a fresh outbreak of cases is expected to spread further. China has reported more than 133 cases across 11 provinces so far. All of them have been linked to the highly transmissible Delta variant. The latest surge is considered the largest outbreak in the country since Nanjing in August this year. It has raised concerns over China's ability to maintain its zero-tolerance approach to the virus, especially leading up to the 2022 Winter Olympics. How Significant is the Beijing Marathon? Held annually since 1981, the Beijing marathon is one of China's biggest local sporting events. The race traditionally begins at Tiananmen Square and ends in Celebration Square in Beijing's Olympic Park. Around 30,000 people were expected to take part in the marathon, which was scheduled to happen on October 31. Marathon organisers said it was cancelling the event "in order to prevent the risk of the epidemic spreading (and) effectively protect the health and safety of the majority of runners, staff and residents." The latest surge is believed to have been spread by local tour groups visiting other provinces and cities. How is China Dealing With This Surge? China has enforced travel restrictions, ramped up testing and urged heightened vigilance in a bid to stamp out the latest outbreak. Officials have banned travel agencies from arranging cross-provincial tours that involve affected regions. Meanwhile, authorities in the capital Beijing have said they will not allow people with travel history to affected counties into the city. Many countries such as Australia have switched from a zero-tolerance policy to living with the virus. But China has stuck to a zero-Covid strategy by implementing harsh lockdowns, mass testing and pursuing mass vaccination drives - about 75.6% of China's population, or 1.068 billion people, had received complete vaccine doses as of Saturday. However, it has recently suffered sporadic local outbreaks of Covid, mostly due to the Delta variant. |
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Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
Winter Olympics in Beijing Kick Off Year of Sportswashing With World Cup in Qatar Bookending 2022’s Shameful 12 Months Olympian Breaks Down in Tears in Beijing Isolation Facility Prompting IOC Action FORGET the Chinese New Year of the Tiger — this is really the Year of the Sportswash. And it kicked off on Friday amid a flurry of fireworks and fanfare in a sub-zero Beijing. 5 Feb 2022 The Sun https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/...0709166017.jpg https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/...a6bd6691cd.jpg https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/tPRs...Kim_fear.0.png Kim Meylemans, forced into isolation at Olympics, released after sharing fearful video Olympic organizers forced the out athlete into a detention center despite several negative COVID tests, before outcry got her released. She’s doing okay now. OLYMPIAN Kim Meylemans broke down in tears in an emotional appeal while inside an isolation facility in Beijing, prompting IOC action. The Belgian Skeleton racer burst into tears to her instagram followers in the conditions prompting an investigation. The 25-year-old tested positive for COVID-19 upon her arrival at the Beijing Olympics and was taken to isolate, where she would need several tests before she would be allowed to enter the Olympic Village. After a negative test she thought she would be allowed to head to Yanqing, she said in the Instagram post, but the ambulance she boarded took her to another facility where she faced seven days of isolation. "Obviously this is very hard for me. So I ask you all to give me some time to consider my next steps, because I am not sure I can handle 14 more days and the Olympic competition while being in this isolation," said Meylemans, who finished 14th in Pyeongchang four years ago. |
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Winter Olympics: Kamila Valieva Treatment by Entourage Chilling - IOC BBC News 18 FEB.2022. https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/asse...uper-tease.jpg It was "chilling" to see the "cold" way distraught Kamila Valieva was treated by her Russian coach after falls in her figure skating routine at Beijing 2022, says International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach. Valieva, weighed down by a doping scandal and questions over the wisdom of allowing her to compete, came fourth on Thursday after several mistakes. There was no hug and no comfort for the 15-year-old from coach Eteri Tutberidze when she immediately came off the ice, instead she was asked "why did you stop fighting?" Valieva was favourite to win the women's event, having set several world records in the short time since she made her senior debut in October. She had led after Tuesday's short programme but the series of falls and messy landings on Thursday ruled her out of a podium finish. "When I saw how she was received by her closest entourage with what appeared to be a tremendous coldness, it was chilling to see this, rather than giving her comfort, rather than to try to help her," said Bach. Tutberidze, whose training methods were already under the spotlight, did put her arm around the young Russian while she waited for her score. But moments before that had demanded to know: "Why did you let it go? Explain it to me, why?" Bach said he was "very, very disturbed" by what he had seen when watching the competition on television. "All of this does not give me much confidence in this closest entourage of Kamila, neither with regard to what happened in the past, nor as far as it concerns the future," he added. "How to deal, how to address, how to treat a minor athlete at the age of 15 under such an obvious mental stress." Valieva is the subject of an anti-doping investigation after testing positive for angina drug trimetazidine. The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has also said it will be investigating Valieva's entourage, including coaches, doctors and other adults surrounding her. Before discovering she had failed a test, she had helped the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) win the team event at Beijing 2022, but the medals for that will only be handed out once the doping case has concluded. In response to Bach, the deputy prime minister of Russia, Dmitry Chernyshenko, said: "We are deeply disappointed to see an IOC President weave his own fictional narrative on the feelings of our athletes, and then present these publicly as the voice of the IOC. "This is frankly inappropriate and wrong. |
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Cross-Country Skier Suffers Frozen Penis at Winter Olympics – 'Pain Was Unbearable'
Remi Lindholm was left with a tender member after battling freezing winds to finish 28th in the men's 50km mass start event on Saturday BBC News 21 FEB.2022. https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...pics-Day-7.jpg Remi Lindholm suffered from a frozen penis while competing at the Winter Olympics Cross-country skiing can be a brutal sport at the best of times, but at the Winter Olympics it left one unlucky racer with an "unbearable" injury. In icy-cold temperatures, athletes must cover a lengthy course which typically sees them burn more than 1,000 calories per hour. The men's 50km mass start event in Beijing was made even more treacherous by freezing winds which swept across the course. Organisers took the decision to bring the distance down to 30km to reduce the risk of frostbite, though that decision was unpopular with some including Andrew Musgrave of Team GB. Sadly for Remi Lindholm, that measure didn't prevent the cold from freezing a particularly sensitive area during the race. The Finnish skier revealed after the race he had suffered a frozen penis during his 76 minutes on the course. "You can guess which body part was a little bit frozen when I finished," he told Finnish outlet IL . "It was one of the worst competitions I've been in. It was just about battling through." Incredibly, it is not the first time he has suffered from such a bizarre injury – he first experienced a similar problem while racing in Ruka, in his homeland, last year. That previous experience helped him to know what to do to remedy the problem when the race was over, but when he applied a heat pack the pain was worse this time. "When the body parts started to warm up after the finish, the pain was unbearable," he added. Sadly Lindholm could not take a medal in the event to make up for his discomfort, finishing 28th and some way off the leaders in the truncated race. It was won by Russian Olympic Committee athlete Alexander Bolshunov, who collected a third cross-country skiing gold medal of these Games after dominating the field. In total he won five medals in Beijing, added to the four he took home from PyeongChang in 2018 to make what has become an impressive personal haul of nine. https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...pics-Day-7.jpg Lindholm was quick to apply a heat pack once he had crossed the finish line He won this race by being patient and waiting for the final lap of the 7.1km course to pounce and race clear of the rest of the front-runners. Fellow ROC skier Ivan Yakimushkin finished six seconds behind in second place, just ahead of Norway's Simen Hegstad Krueger who took bronze. Britain's Andrew Musgrave put in an admirable performance to finish 12th out of the 61-strong field, a significant improvement on his 46th-placed finish in the 15km classic event. |
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Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 End With Grand Fireworks Closing Ceremony
A spectacular fireworks display brought an end to the Beijing Winter Olympics on Sunday. 21 Feb 2022 The Sun Earlier the Olympic flame had been doused, closing a Games that will be remembered for the extremes of its anti-COVID-19 measures and outrage over the doping scandal that enveloped 15-year-old Russian skating sensation Kamila Valieva. Sunday night's ceremony was capped by a 90-second fireworks display that spelled out "one world, one family," followed by a rendition of "Auld Lang Syne". During the ceremony, Bach praised Beijing's organisers and made a call for unity as well as universal access to COVID-19 vaccines |
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BRAVE guy especially as it was not the first time he has suffered such an injury One could say he has spunk & a good set of Olympic BALLS....:laff: http://iget2work.com/wp-content/uplo...leprechaun.gif |
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