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President Xi Jinping's recent inspection on Beijing 2022 preparations has sent a reassuring signal to the sporting world that China is determined to deliver an excellent Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in one year's time.
Dick Pound, the IOC's longest-serving member, claims that the postponed Tokyo Olympic Games will be held in the summer, backtracking on comments he made two weeks ago.
President Xi Jinping has called on China to take advantage of technological innovations to develop winter sports in the country.
To promote winter sports, Chinese President Xi Jinping has inspected three competition zones of the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games over two days in January 2021.
With 40 meters long and 20 meters wide, a giant picture of the Olympic rings appeared on the Songhua River in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province after a light snowfall.
President Xi Jinping has called for advancing preparation work for the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games against difficulties and with "greater perfection."
About one year away from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, China is delivering on its bid promises of hosting a "Green Olympics."
By the end of 2020, all 12 competition venues for Beijing 2022 were completed, despite the uncertainties and challenges brought by the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Tuesday inspected the Zhangjiakou competition zone of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
Stuck in a pandemic-ravaged world, athletes and officials are staying positive while preparing for the postponed Tokyo Olympic Games this summer.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Monday inspected the preparatory work of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing.
The Japanese Diet opened Monday with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga vowing to go ahead with preparations to hold the Tokyo Olympics this summer, in the face of growing public opposition amid a surge in COVID-19 infections across the country.
Chinese debutant Yan Bingtao defeated veteran John Higgins to clinch the Snooker Masters title on Sunday, becoming the youngest Masters champion since a 19-year-old Ronnie O'Sullivan won in 1995.
Athletes and their teams began arriving in Melbourne from Thursday ahead of next month's Australian Open (AO), despite several big names testing positive for COVID-19.
Countless children growing up in Beijing enjoy ice skating in winter, with the sport well established as a seasonal tradition.
Three-time Grand Slam winner Andy Murray of Britain has tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of his trip to Australia, British media reported on Thursday.
Rumors ran wild last weekend in China that the Tokyo Olympics would be canceled and moved to 2032, immediately causing a stir among athletes who had planned to compete at the showpiece event in under 200 days.
A total of 58 Chinese football clubs have applied to change their names, with more than 80 percent of applications approved, according to the Chinese Football Association (CFA).
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) reiterated its confidence in the host of the Tokyo 2020 and reaffirmed the joint effort to host the Games in an e-mail interview with Xinhua on Monday.
A man wearing a protective face mask walks in front of a wall decoration featuring Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games mascot Miraitowa and Paralympic mascot Someity, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Tokyo, Japan December 24, 2020.
A latest opinion poll has shown that more than 80 percent of respondents think the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games should be canceled or postponed again.
The completion of two of the most difficult venues to build for the 2022 Winter Olympics has highlighted Beijing's readiness for the Games as their one-year countdown approaches.
The exhibition of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic torches across the greater Tokyo area has been postponed due to the worsening situation of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Beijing will build a Winter Olympic Park in the city's western region and will be completed by the end of September 2021.
Chinese athlete Su Yiming finished his first -- and also China's first Cab 1,800 tail -- at Wanda Changbaishan International Ski Resort on Saturday.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said here on Monday that he is determined to host the Tokyo Olympic Games although the COVID-19 pandemic situation is worsening in his country.
The Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games unveiled the pictograms during a televised countdown party on New Year's Eve as a major milestone in its preparation with co-host city Zhangjiakou, North China's Hebei province, for the winter sports gala in 2022.
The image of the sport pictograms (white sign) for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 is released by the Beijing 2022 Organizing Committee in Beijing on Dec 31, 2020.
Eight competition venues for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games have already been completed, the Beijing Major Projects Construction Headquarters Office said on Tuesday.
China has formally criminalized doping after its top legislature voted to adopt Amendment XI to its criminal law on Saturday.
