Beijing 2022

— 15 February 2022

The waltz of figures

The exercise is becoming a ritual. Every day since the start of the Beijing 2022 Games, the IOC and the organising committee have held a press conference at the... Read more »

— 15 February 2022

Eileen Gu, two medals but still questions

Every day has its own medal for the Chinese delegation at the 2022 Winter Games. Its podium of the day, this Tuesday 15 February, was secured at lunchtime. No... Read more »

— 14 February 2022

No more cases under the bubble

Every day there is a different count of cases of COVID-19 at the Beijing Games. The Chinese organisers are following the same ritual, with a steady decline in the... Read more »

— 14 February 2022

A Japanese criticises the rating

Controversy at the Beijing 2022 Games. Gold medallist in the half-pipe, young Japanese Hirano Ayumu (pictured above) has thrown a spanner in the works by criticising the judging system... Read more »

— 14 February 2022

The flame would have been extinguished

The Olympic flame was extinguished in front of the Bird’s Nest, the stadium of the 2008 Beijing Summer Games, as a result of the snowstorm that blew over Beijing... Read more »

— 14 February 2022

Ukrainian calls for peace

Politics was the order of the day at the Beijing 2022 Winter Games. A Ukrainian skeleton specialist, Vladyslav Heraskevych, held up a sign with the words “No war in... Read more »

— 14 February 2022

NBC’s bad accounts

The management of the American channel NBC, the exclusive holder of the rights to the Games in the United States, has made no secret of the fact that Beijing... Read more »

— 14 February 2022

CAS gives green light to Kamila Valieva

The news came just before 2pm in Beijing. At the worst possible moment, during the press conference for the ice dance medallists. It led to questions from the media... Read more »

— 11 February 2022

Sales are booming

A Bing Dwen Dwen effect? No doubt. According to figures from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, online sales of official Beijing 2022 products increased 21.2 times during the Chinese... Read more »

— 11 February 2022

The Chinese have turned water into ice

The Chinese promised to recycle as much of the equipment used 14 years earlier at the 2008 Summer Games for the Beijing Winter Games. They have kept their word.... Read more »