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Taiwan (The Republic of China) did not participate in the Games over the IOC's recognition of the People's Republic of China as "China", and its request for Taiwan to compete as "Chinese Taipei". Taiwan missed the 1976 Montreal Summer Games and 1980 Moscow Summer Games for the same reason. It returned to the Games in 1984. [175]
The 2022 Winter Olympics took place between the 4 and 20 February 2022 and were hosted by in China in the capital city of Beijing. The country selected was the subject of various concerns and controversies about their cost, environmental impact, censorship, espionage, COVID-19, sportswashing, and human rights issues.
Eleven of the 23 swimmers involved in the controversy were named to the 2024 Chinese Olympic swimming team. [150] World Aquatics said that Chinese swimmers had been tested an average of 21 times, compared to four times for Australian swimmers and six times for American swimmers, since 1 January 2024. [151]
The ITA — another Olympics-adjacent anti-doping body created in the aftermath of Russia's state-sponsored doping scheme — forwarded those concerns to WADA in 2022, and initiated its own ...
The 2022 Winter Olympics are set to begin Feb. 4 in Beijing. Despite Omicron fears, draconian COVID-19 countermeasures and endless controversy, organizers are pressing ahead with plans for the ...
Emma Broyles (born 2001), first Miss Alaska to be crowned Miss America; Alex Bryner (born 1943), Chinese-born Russian American retired lawyer and jurist; Seaborn Buckalew Jr. (1920–2017), judge; Kira Buckland (born 1987), actress; Edith Bullock (1903–1994), businesswoman and politician active in Alaska during its territorial and early ...
A number of concerns and controversies surfaced before, during, and after the 2008 Summer Olympics, and which received major media coverage.Leading up to the Olympics, there were concerns about human rights in China, [1] [2] [3] such that many high-profile individuals, such as politicians and celebrities, announced intentions to boycott the games to protest China's role in the Darfur conflict ...
For the record: 7:38 p.m. Aug. 5, 2024: A previous version of this article misspelled the name of Taiwanese viewer Chen Hsien-yi as Chen Hsi-yi.. Taiwan's first gold medal Sunday at the 2024 Paris ...