BEIJING - The "curse" of Olympic overspending looks set to strike again at the Beijing Games, with stringent Covid measures and loss of ticket sale revenues pushing up costs for China.

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Olympic 'curse' strikes again as Beijing costs mount

A robotic arm is serving up enticing elixirs to visitors of the Main Media Center on the grounds of the 2022 Beijing Olympics.

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Robot bartender serves Olympic cocktails in Beijing

A South Korean short track speed skater left off the team for the Beijing Winter Olympics due to an injury is accusing the sport's national federation of lacking transparency in its selection process.  In an email statement sent to Yonhap News Agency on Sunday, Kim Ji-yoo said she was "upset" that she was "robbed of my ticket to the Beijing Olympics."  "It's something precious and dear to my ...

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Denied Olympic chance, short tracker cries foul over lack of transparency

The Philadelphian’s journey from college basketball to US Olympic bobsledder could land her on the podium in Beijing

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Sylvia Hoffman: unlikely Team USA bobsledder readies for Olympic debut

‘One of each’ is the aim when Australia’s 44 Olympic athletes head to the winter Games in Beijing.

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Australia’s winter Olympians target bronze, silver and gold

The city of Beijing announced on Sunday that it would screen all residents of a neighborhood after the discovery of an epidemic focus, less than two weeks before the start of the Winter Olympics in the Chinese capital.

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Covid-19: Beijing screens an entire neighborhood, two weeks before the 2022 Olympics

Mutaz Barshim won Olympic silver medals in London 2012, Rio 2016 and gold in Tokyo 2021. Barshim also won gold in Doha 2019, London 2017 and silver in Moscow 2013. Add  golds and silver in the World Indoors , Birmingham 2018-silver, Sopot 2014-gold, and the numerous Asian Championships, and you have Qatar's true sport rock star. Mutaz is a charming interview, and a totally immersed athlete.

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Coming from a family of dominant Vermont cross-country skiers, Ben Ogden hopes to make a big impact at his first Olympics.

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Landgrove's Ogden hopes to 'throw down' at the Olympics

During an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, the Olympic gold medallist weighed in on the controversy over transgender NCAA swimmer Lia Thomas.

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Michael Phelps weighs in on transgender swimmer issue

U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday announced charges against a Texas therapist for allegedly distributing performance-enhancing drugs to athletes participating in the Olympic Games held in Tokyo last summer. The charges against Eric Lira, unsealed by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, marked the first U.S. criminal accusations of doping related to the Tokyo games, which were

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U.S. charges therapist with giving performance enhancing drugs to athletes for Tokyo Olympics

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