Beijing Olympics

By PTI BEIJING: Dry Beijing barely gets any winter precipitation, making this year's Winter Games the first to rely almost entirely on artificial snow. Organizers…

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic are among more than a dozen world leaders who attended the opening ceremony on Friday night Chinese leader Xi…

By Associated Press BEIJING: Days after quietly ringing in the Chinese New Year, Beijing is celebrating the Year of the Tiger on the Olympic stage. The tiger — a…

BEIJING: International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach will meet Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai inside the 'closed loop' of the Beijing Olympics, he said on Thursday. The…

If the post COVID era is about anything, it's about resilience! The people of the world have shown immense willpower to move past what has happened and strive for a better and happier…

All of the torchbearers must be vaccinated and will be tested for the virus and have their health monitored for 14 days before the relay The Beijing Winter Olympics torch relay will be…

By Associated Press SEOUL: North Korea on Friday said it would skip next month's Beijing Olympics because of the COVID-19 pandemic and "hostile forces' moves", a…

NEW DELHI: The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over but the world seems to be adapting to a life with the dreaded virus and as this churning continues, sports is set to be a major source of…

BEIJING: China has reported 206 new COVID-19 cases, including 158 domestically transmitted ones, in a sudden spike ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics which will be held in February next…

NEW DELHI: It was on this day, 13 years ago, when Abhinav Bindra became the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold medal. Bindra had achieved the feat during the 2008 Beijing…