In some ways, China represents all that is appealing to the National Hockey League about staying in the Olympics. In a perfect NHL world, the Winter Olympics would be held in North America every four ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has officially declared the 2022 Winter Olympic open as part of the Opening Ceremonies at the Oympic Stadium in Beijing. The games open amid strict COVID-19 protocols and ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Throughout more than 120 years of Olympic history, no city has hosted both the winter and summer games. Now, Beijing will be the first do it -- and in the span of just 14 ...

People trying to fly from the United States to China may soon be confronted with an unthinkable scenario: Starting next week, there are likely to be no commercial flights bound for the country as ...

Artur Dmitriev during the 2022 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. (John David Mercer/USA TODAY Sports) BEIJING—The idea of a quintuple jump in figure skating—five rotations in the air—has always ...

China’s repression in Tibet, the status of the exiled Dalai Lama, and its treatment of ethnic minorities spurred violent protests ahead of Beijing’s 2008 Olympics. It could happen again. China is to ...

“The politicization of sports will damage the spirit of the Olympic Charter and the interests of athletes from all countries,” a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said recently about calls for... The ...

Demands for boycotting the Beijing Winter Olympics were earlier voiced by politicians from Canada, Norway, and the United States as well as by representatives of about 200 human rights organizations ...