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Post by Admin on Jan 18, 2022 18:17:17 GMT
China announces no tickets will be sold for Winter Olympics l GMA 4,917 views • Jan 19, 2022 • The Beijing 2022 Organizing Committee said no tickets will be sold to the public for any events due to the "grave and complicated situation of the COVID-19 pandemic." READ MORE: abcn.ws/3qA1kx8
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Post by Admin on Jan 21, 2022 13:14:09 GMT
Ski racer Aleksander Kilde back on top for Beijing 2022! ⛷ | Athletes to Watch - Beijing 2022
4,471 views • Jan 21, 2022 • For years, the Norwegian ski racer lived in the shadow of legends Aksel Lund Svindal and Kjetil Jansrud. Finally, in 2019 Aleksander Aamodt Kilde found form and won the overall world cup two years running. But a training crash resulted in a cruciate ligament tear. Now back on top, he has one goal in mind: Gold at Beijing 2022.
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Post by Admin on Jan 23, 2022 3:38:24 GMT
The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee is telling athletes to ditch their personal phones for burners ahead of next month’s Winter Olympics in China, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal (via Android Central). The advisory was reportedly sent out twice last year to warn athletes about the possibility of digital surveillance while in China. “Every device, communication, transaction and online activity may be monitored,” the bulletin states. “Your device(s) may also be compromised with malicious software, which could negatively impact future use.” As noted by the WSJ, Great Britain, Canada, and the Netherlands have also cautioned athletes against bringing their personal electronics into the country. The Committee’s fears aren’t unfounded. In 2019, China was caught secretly installing spyware on tourists’ phones who entered from the Xinjiang region. This heavily-surveilled area is populated by the Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority that China has subjected to imprisonment and torture. In addition, research group Citizen Lab found that China’s My2022 Olympic app, which all attendees are required to install, is full of security holes that could lead to privacy breaches, surveillance, and hacking. Back when Beijing held the 2008 Summer Olympics, the US Department of Homeland Security issued a similar advisory for any travelers headed to China, warning that bringing any devices potentially exposes them to “unauthorized access and theft of data by criminal or foreign government elements.” Things are a bit different this time around, however, as China has banned all foreign spectators due to concerns over COVID-19. Athletes will likely be relying on their mobile devices to stay in touch with friends and family, which could be more complicated on a burner phone that comes with limits on mobile data, texting, and calling. But even if the Olympic athletes want to use their burner phones to browse the internet, they still might not get unlimited access. During the 2008 Olympics, China promised to offer spectators, journalists, and athletes unrestricted access to the web, since The Great Firewall of China currently blocks a number of popular websites in the country, like Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, and more. China didn’t seem to follow through on its promise, however. Journalists reported that they still weren’t able to access certain websites, including BBC China, a number of Hong Kong newspapers, as well as the site for human rights organization Amnesty International. China has once again said it will give athletes and journalists uncensored access to the internet, but it’s unclear if the country will still block certain sites.
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Post by Admin on Jan 23, 2022 12:38:34 GMT
The teams are getting ready for the second half of the Olympic season. Olivia and Adrian make ballroom dancing fine touches to their program ahead of the decisive Spanish nationals. Madison shows off her manicure skills while chatting with Lilah about the meaning of competing at the Olympics. COVID derails the Grand Prix Final and Nikolaj demonstrates his knife-making hobby to Zach who discusses his impending retirement.
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 24, 2022 20:59:01 GMT
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reported 72 positive COVID-19 tests in China during the pre-Games period from January 4 to 22. The organisation said 2,586 tests were conducted at Beijing Capital International Airport during the period, resulting in 39 confirmed cases. The remaining 33 cases were detected from 336,421 tests carried out in the closed-loop system, which will separate Games participants from the Chinese population. Individuals who have tested positive have been isolated and close contacts identified, according to the IOC. The organisation said the process shows the system outlined in playbooks for Beijing 2022 is working. Those receiving a positive result from airport testing followed by a negative confirmation test will be required to receive another negative result from an additional test prior to entering the closed loop. The measure has been established in order to avoid people being released with a false negative from the confirmatory test. Athletes and Games participants who test positive and are asymptomatic will be discharged from isolation once they have two consecutive negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test results 24 hours apart. Individuals can have cases reviewed by the IOC’s Medical Expert Panel, which could involve cases of persistent positive results and non-infectious Games participants. All Games participants are subject to daily PCR tests in China. "The testing in Beijing is robust and is reliable," said Dr Brian McCloskey, chair of the Beijing 2022 Medical Expert Panel. "It is the same type of PCR test that is used the world over. "For the Games, the test is set at a very sensitive level because what we want to achieve is not to get Omicron into the closed-loop system. "Extra reagents and different gene targets have been brought in to ensure that, although we set it very sensitively, we can increase the specificity to exclude false positives." The IOC has highlighted pre-departure, airport and closed-loop testing, with multiple stages seen as key to reducing the chance of people incubating the virus entering the loop. Close to 100 per cent of residents at the Athletes' Village are expected to be vaccinated against COVID-19, with unvaccinated participants having been required to spend 21 days in quarantine before entering the closed loop unless they are under the age of 18. McCloskey said organisers were confident in the capacity to complete the daily tests, as well as potential surge capacity if required.
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