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Beijing police are cracking down on Chinese traders reselling Olympic mascot dolls at up to 10 times the retail price: AP
"The secondhand market is hot," local newspaper Beijing News reported, per the AP report. "Bing Dwe…
Lauren Frias
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Olympians are slamming the Beijing quarantine hotel over 'unreasonable' conditions and poor food quality
Olympic athletes in Beijing who have to quarantine for COVID-19 have complained about gross food, s…
Scott Davis
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'Blade Runner' Or Beijing?
Several people have pointed out that an eerie of photo of Beijing shrouded in a dense smog with a v…
Dina Spector
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Top medical expert says that the 72 COVID cases detected in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics so far are within its expectations
Beijing 2022 Olympics have confirmed 72 COVID-19 cases among the 2,586 personnel brought in for the…
Matthew Loh
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Dating app Grindr is ramping up privacy to protect LGTBQ athletes competing in the Beijing Olympics from discrimination and harassment
Grindr nixed the explore feature for people in the Beijing Olympic Village, hoping to protect LGBTQ…
Gabrielle Bienasz
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Beijing hired American influencers, including a 'Real Housewives' star, to promote the Winter Olympics
"Beijing has a very special place in our family's hearts," Crystal Kung Minkoff, star of "Real Hous…
Waiyee Yip
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73,537 receive COVID-19 vaccine in Beijing in two days since inoculation
A total of 73,537 people have received a vaccine against the novel coronavirus in Beijing in just t…
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Photos show Beijing glowing yellow in the worst sandstorm for a decade: 'It looks like the end of the world'
Photos from Beijing, China, show the sandstorm turning the city yellow and obscuring buildings as s…
Sinéad Baker
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The US is talking to allies about boycotting 2022 Beijing Olympics over genocide against Uyghurs in Xinjiang
The last time the US boycotted the Olympics was during the 1980 summer games in Moscow, and it coul…
John Haltiwanger
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The Olympics' artificial snow requires the equivalent of a day's worth of drinking water for 900 million people. Experts say it's the unfortunate future of winter sports.
To make enough Olympic snow, Beijing had to find at least 200 million gallons of extra water in one…
Matthew Loh
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2 weeks out from the Olympics, China is back to using anal COVID-19 swab tests on some Beijing residents to try to detect Omicron cases
27 people were given anal COVID-19 swabs in Beijing this week in a procedure that involves insertin…
Cheryl Teh
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Swedish speed skater who won gold tried new sports and joined the Army so he wouldn't get bored training for Olympics
Nils van der Poel won the 5,000-meter gold in Beijing after taking a break between Olympic games to…
Scott Davis
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This Is Probably The Closest You Will Ever Get To The Bizarre 'Mountain Villa' Built Illegally Atop A Beijing High Rise
The villa, apparently designed to look like it was carved out of the mountainside, had long drawn c…
Adam Taylor
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Video Captures The Moment That Small Bomb Went Off In Beijing Airport
Ji had reportedly set off the bomb in protest after he was left paralyzed from a beating by officia…
Adam Taylor
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The most stunning photos of the Beijing Olympics so far
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Scott Davis
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The Beijing Games is a story of broken dreams for Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu as he falls while attempting a gravity-defying quadruple Axel
Two-time gold medalist Hanyu, known as Japan's "Ice Prince," fell on his attempt at the quadruple A…
Cheryl Teh
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Chinese capital Beijing shrouded by another sandstorm, air quality turns to severely polluted
The second sandstorm in two weeks hit Beijing on Sunday, turning the skyline yellow and plunging ai…
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Shaun White paid tribute to late designer Virgil Abloh at the Beijing Winter Olympics with a custom Louis Vuitton luggage set
Shaun White, who recently announced the Beijing Olympics would be his last, posted an Instagram of …
Gabi Stevenson
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How the order of the Parade of Nations is determined at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
In Beijing, countries will parade ordered by the number of strokes in the first character of their …
Scott Davis
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A US skier took a scary fall in Olympic slalom, then asked emergency responders how fast she was going when she crashed
Nina O'Brien was concerned with her performance and delaying the giant slalom after a hard and scar…