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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 ...
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 ban occurred over the objections of IOC president Avery Brundage who, in his speech following the Munich massacre, controversially compared the anti-Rhodesia campaign to the terrorist attack on the Olympic village [46] (see Rhodesia at the Olympics). In the controversial gold medal basketball game, the US team appeared to win the gold medal ...
China is sending 11 swimmers embroiled in a doping scandal to the Paris 2024 Olympics.. Among the 31-member swim roster it released Tuesday, the Chinese Swimming Association named almost a dozen ...
A potentially explosive doping scandal rocked Olympic swimming Saturday after revelations that 23 Chinese swimmers, including gold medalists and world record-setters, tested positive for a banned ...
China's Qin Haiyang prepares before competing in a men's 100-meter breaststroke semifinal at the Paris Olympics on Saturday. Haiyang was one of the 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a ...
[310] On August 4 the embassy again criticized the BBC's coverage of Taiwan's participation in the Olympics saying that a BBC article explaining the history of Taiwan's Olympic moniker "Chinese Taipei" had been "sensationalizing the question of the 'Chinese Taipei' team at the Tokyo Olympics." and went on to state "[China] strongly urges these ...
The New York Times reported Tuesday that two top Chinese swimmers — including one on this year's Olympic team — tested positive for a banned steroid in 2022 but were eventually cleared to ...