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Behind the skiers launching themselves off the 60-meter-high ramp are furnaces, tall chimney stacks and cooling towers on the site of a former steel mill that for decades contributed to the Chinese capital's notoriously polluted skies.
China, which used its first Olympics to amplify its international aspirations, invited the world back on Friday — sort of — for the pandemic era's second Games.
Curler Tahli Gill and her teammate Dean Hewitt have been in isolation for the past two days after Tahli returned a positive test on arrival at Beijing Airport.
Australian Winter Olympians have been urged not to take their phones to the Beijing Olympics to counter the risk of surveillance by Chinese authorities.
A third Chinese city has locked down its residents because of a COVID-19 outbreak, raising the number confined to their homes in China to about 20 million people.
The numbers are small, but the major port of Tianjin may be facing China's first outbreak of Omicron of any size, less than four weeks before the Winter Olympics open in nearby Beijing.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed today that Australia will follow the US by imposing a diplomatic boycott on the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
China has accused the United States of violating the Olympic spirit after the Biden administration announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Games over human rights concerns.
Australian Olympic athletes risk being caught in a Chinese backlash if the Federal Government follows today's announcement by the US of a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Games, an expert has warned.
National ALP president Wayne Swan has cautioned against a Beijing Winter Olympics boycott, as concern remains over the safety of tennis star Peng Shuai.
With the delayed Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics less than a fortnight away, take a look at what's happened to venues left abandoned and derelict in other countries after the medals were awarded and the visitors departed.
A female skater was severely injured after falling to the ice from about five metres during a rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the Youth Winter Olympics in Switzerland.
Donald Trump's daughter and adviser has called her visit to the Olympics "so incredibly inspiring", expressing gratitude at the chance to watch competition.
The Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea have officially come to a close with the handover of the flag to Beijing, China who will host the 2022 games.
Russian ice hockey players have sung their national anthem after clinching the gold medal in overtime against Germany at the Winter Olympic Games, despite the anthem being banned as punishment for a years-long Russian doping scandal.
South Korean police say they've detained a Canadian ski cross competitor, his wife and a Canadian official for allegedly taking a car during the PyeongChang Olympics.
Aussie aerial skier David Morris has shared an emotion-charged video call with his sick mum after his Winter Olympics campaign came to a controversial end.
While dual-Olympic medallist Lydia Lassila's South Korean campaign might have come to an end, the Aussie still had fight left in her, firing off a jibe at a fellow athlete who suggested winter sports were less professional.