Taiki Kawayoke wins the men s long distance standing cross-country skiing gold for Japan, giving the country its first medal in the sport at the Beijing Paralympics.
The Beijing Paralympics kick off at the Chinese capital s National Stadium with the ongoing war in Ukraine casting a shadow over the world s largest winter sports event for athletes with disabilities.
The monobob is set to go down an Olympic sliding track for the first time, giving women the same number of medal events as the men. But it’s not the event that some of the sport's most prominent women necessarily wanted.
The monobob is set to go down an Olympic sliding track for the first time, giving women the same number of medal events as the men. But it’s not the event that some of the sport's most prominent women necessarily wanted.
Xi Jinping
Preparations for 2022 Beijing Olympics are in full swing in China. Chinese President Xi Jinping himself toured the Olympic facilities and inspected the preparatory work on Monday. The President visited both host cities Zhangjiakou and Beijing and met with coaches, athletes, staff and heads of operations team.
After the tour “Xinhua”, a Chinese news agency quoted Xi Jinping saying, “I’m very gratified to see the preparations are well under day and the athletes’ training is producing obvious results”. He added that preparations were a high priority for the Communist Party, and the party and the public had given the events tremendous moral and material support.