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Post by Admin on Jan 5, 2022 15:33:44 GMT
Beijing seals off Olympic 'bubble' ahead of Winter Games - BBC News 6,315 views • Jan 5, 2022 • Beijing is one month away from hosting the Winter Olympics.
Athletes, officials and journalists are entering into Covid-secure bubbles as soon as they arrive and will remain within it until the Games, which run from the 4 - 20 February, are over.
No fans from outside China are permitted and most of the spectators are expected to be drawn from schools, government offices and the military rather than the general public.
The Games have been clouded by international concern for former Chinese Olympian Peng Shuai. Earlier this year, the tennis star said she was "forced" to have sexual relations with former Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli.
China Correspondent Stephen McDonell reports from the mountains outside Beijing, where access to the Olympic region has now been sealed off.
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Post by Admin on Jan 6, 2022 3:35:04 GMT
How China Plans To Keep The Beijing Winter Olympics Safe From Covid Outbreaks 5,528 views • Jan 5, 2022 • With the Beijing Winter Olympics just one month away, Chinese officials are laying out their plan to make sure the games are safe as the Covid-19 omicron variant continues to spread around the world. NBC News’ Janis Mackey Frayer reports.
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Post by Admin on Jan 9, 2022 12:00:09 GMT
Mia Clerc, Madagascar’s First Female Olympic Skier | Snow Game - Ep. 3 ⛷ 2,000 views • Jan 9, 2022 • The inspiring story of Malagasy skier Mialitiana Clerc and how she wants her Olympic journey to inspire her nation. She is excited to represent her country of birth again in Beijing 2022.
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Post by Admin on Jan 9, 2022 18:02:01 GMT
Coach Marie-France Dubreuil’s two top teams arrive in Torino for the Italian Grand Prix 2021: Madison and Zach, and Grabriella and Guillaume. Both coming from fresh wins at Skate America and Finlandia Trophy, this is the first time they compete against each other in this season 2021-2022 season.
Filmed in the last six months leading up to Beijing 2022, On Edge is the Olympic Channel’s first weekly figure skating reality docuseries featuring athletes Madison Chock and Evan Bates (USA), Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron (FRA), Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue (USA), Olivia Smart and Adrian Diaz (ESP), Laurence Fournier-Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen (CAN), Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson (GBR), and coaches Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer and three time Olympic Gold medallist Scott Moir.
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Post by Admin on Jan 9, 2022 22:11:18 GMT
The ice dance podium at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships has proven to be more consistent than any other discipline this Olympic quadrennium, and on Sunday morning the three teams who finished top three every year of this Olympic quadrennium were also confirmed to the U.S. Olympic team. This year’s national champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates will mark their third Olympics as a team in Beijing next month, while 2021 U.S. champions Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue are headed to their second and Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker will make their Olympic debuts. All three teams train at the Ice Academy of Montreal under coaches Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon and Romain Haguenauer. Bates also competed at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics with then-partner Emily Samuelson, and will now become the first U.S. skater of any discipline to compete in four Winter Olympics. He will also be the second-oldest American to compete in ice dance at the Olympics. Chock and Bates and Hubbell and Donohue are both podium contenders, with Chock and Bates having a leg up with the sport’s judges after topping their training partners by 1.78 points in Nashville. Both teams paired up leading into the 2011-2012 season and have since earned three national titles apiece. Chock, 29, and Bates, 32, who are also in a relationship off the ice, won the U.S. Championships in 2015, 2020 and 2022. They have five top-five finishes at the world championships, including silver in 2015, bronze in 2016 and a fourth place last year, and are three-time silver medalists at the Grand Prix Final. The Michigan natives have yet to show their full potential at the Olympics, though, placing eighth in 2014 and ninth in 2018. Both skaters fell during their free dance in PyeongChang, which Chock later explained stemmed from her ankle injury; two months later she had surgery to remove bone fragments in her right ankle, which caused them to miss the first half of the next season. Hubbell, 30, and Donohue, 31, are the only team in the world to medal at the past three world championships (silvers in 2018 and 2021, bronze in 2019); their U.S. titles came in 2018, 2019 and 2021. They have been in the top four at all 11 of their national championships together. Hubbell and Donohue won the 2018 Grand Prix Final and were third at the 2019 event.
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