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For Uyghur torchbearer, China's Olympic flame has gone dark

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) At the age of 17, Kamaltürk Yalqun was one of several students chosen to help carry the Olympic flame ahead of the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing. Today, he is an activist in the United States calling for a boycott of the upcoming Winter Games over China's treatment of his Uyghur ethnic community. ....

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Making Olympics just the start for athletes avoiding COVID

Mariah Bell had just won the U.S. figure skating championship to earn her first trip to the Olympics. Then came the hard part: remaining coronavirus-free until it was time to leave for Beijing. “That will be 100% top priority,” Bell said after qualifying for the Winter Games and before retreating back into a lockdown in the hopes that she could dodge the virus for another month. ....

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Olympic spotlight back on China for a COVID-tinged Games

BEIJING (AP) Long before the global pandemic upended sports and the world in general, the 2022 Winter Olympics faced unsettling problems. It started with the fact that hardly anybody wanted to host them. ....

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Czechs beat China 3-1, win Olympic debut in women's hockey

BEIJING (AP) Kendall Coyne Schofield and Alex Carpenter each scored twice, and the U.S. women's hockey team began the defense of its Olympic title with a 5-2 win over Finland on Thursday in a game overshadowed by an injury to American forward Brianna Decker. ....

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President Xi Jinping, China's 'chairman of everything'

BEIJING (AP) The last time the Olympics came to China, he oversaw the whole endeavor. Now the Games are back, and this time Xi Jinping is running the entire nation. The Chinese president, hosting a Winter Olympics beleaguered by complaints about human rights abuses, has upended tradition to restore strongman rule in China and tighten Communist Party control over the economy and society. ....

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