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The men's light flyweight boxing gold medal match between Kaeo Pongprayoon of Thailand and Zou Shiming of China was marred by controversy. Zou, the Chinese fighter, won on a controversial decision. Pongprayoon was hit with a two-point penalty for an unclear offence with 9 seconds left in the bout to give the Chinese boxer the victory.
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.
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games were set to be the hottest on record, an increase on the previous Games in Tokyo, during which athletes had already expressed health concerns. In June 2024, a report titled "Rings of Fire: Heat Risks at the 2024 Paris Olympics" documented concerns, and the IOC proposed mitigation measures.
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 ...
Chinese Olympics may refer to: 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China; 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China; China at the Olympics (IOC code: CHN) People's Republic of China (1952, 1980–present) Chinese Olympic Committee, its National Olympic Committee; Chinese Taipei at the Olympics (IOC code: ROC, RCF, TWN, and TPE) Taiwan (1956–present)
He Kexin (born January 1, 1992) is a Chinese former artistic gymnast who competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing , she won gold medals on the uneven bars and as a member of the Chinese team .
Dong Fangxiao (Chinese: 董芳霄; pinyin: Dǒng Fāngxiāo) is a Chinese retired international gymnast who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics. [3] She won a bronze medal with the Chinese team at the Olympics, as well as the 1999 World Championships in Tianjin China, but both the medals were stripped from her and her teammates when it was discovered she had competed underage.
In the women's 10 metre platform, she won the gold medal with a total score of 435.51 points becoming the first Chinese diver to win a gold medal in the Olympics. In the same year, she was named the best athlete of the year in women's platform diving by magazine Swimming World. [1] In 1998, she became the team leader of the Chinese diving team.