The 2022 Winter Olympics will formally get underway with the opening ceremony happening on Friday in Beijing.
The ceremony is happening on the Chook’s Nest stadium, constructed and used for the 2008 summer season Olympic video games, as Beijing turns into the primary metropolis to host each editions of the video games.
The stadium additionally served because the venue for Monitor and Subject as nicely the lads’s 2008 gold medal soccer sport, however is not going to host any sporting occasions in 2022.
The opening ceremony shall be directed by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Zhang Yimou, who directed the opening and shutting ceremonies in 2008.
The parade of countries is anticipated to comply with the identical order as at Beijing 2008, with international locations getting into the stadium in accordance the strokes used within the Chinese language-language characters of their names.
Greece, as custom dictates, will enter first because the first-ever host of the Olympics, and China because the host nation will enter final.
Away from the ceremony, British curlers Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat will tackle Australia within the blended doubles occasion.
Workforce USA dominated determine skating occasions that started on Friday, beginning with American star Nathan Chen, 22, topping the chart with a brand new private document of 111.71 in males’s brief whereas Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue earned 86.56 in rhythm skating.
Workforce USA keep prime spot in determine skating
China’s Wenjing Sui and Cong Han topped the rating board in pair skating’s brief program, incomes 10 factors for his or her nation. They have been intently adopted by Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov of ROC who scored 82.64 for ROC.
Workforce USA continued their dominance in determine skating because it secured third spot, incomes their nation 8 factors. Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier scored the very best at 75.00 factors, additionally their private finest brief program rating in pair skating.
The nation stays on prime after three of eight segments:
- USA, 28 factors
- ROC, 26
- Folks’s Republic of China, 21
- Japan, 20
- Italy, 18
- Canada, 16
- Georgia, 15
- Czech Republic, 12
- Ukraine, 4
- Germany, 3
Namita Singh4 February 2022 07:20
Russian president reaches Beijing forward of the opening ceremony
Russian president Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing forward of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Video games.
His go to comes amid the rising Chinese language assist for Moscow amid the dispute with Ukraine that’s threatening to interrupt out into armed battle.
Mr Putin held talks along with his Chinese language counterpart Xi Jinping upon arrival, reported the Related Press.
Namita Singh4 February 2022 07:00
Three males’s hockey participant of Workforce USA check constructive for Covid
Two prime defenseman and a veteran ahead of the Workforce USA males’s hockey crew have examined constructive for Covid. These embrace Jake Sanderson and Steven Kampfer, and ahead Andy Miele.
Whereas Sanderson stays in Los Angeles, the opposite two are isolating within the Olympic Village in Beijing.
Namita Singh4 February 2022 06:49
Eighty per cent of Workforce USA athletes will attend Beijing opening ceremony
Round 80 per cent of the athletes of Workforce USA will attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, mentioned crew chief Rick Adams.
“When it comes to the opening ceremony, it might even be a document, we have now 80% of our athletes strolling tonight,” he instructed a information convention forward of the occasion.
Namita Singh4 February 2022 06:40
ROC’s scores dominating win towards Switzerland in ice hockey
Switzerland noticed one other gorgeous defeat in ladies’s ice hockey as they misplaced to ROC by 5-2 within the group A match. Earlier on Thursday, that they had taken a 12-1 thrashing from Canada.
Namita Singh4 February 2022 06:32
China declare first win in ice hockey
Although Denmark started with a 1-0 lead towards the host, they did not construct on it as China claimed their first win within the ladies’s ice hockey beating the rivals 1-3 in group B.
Namita Singh4 February 2022 06:24
Madison Hubbell reacts her rhythm skating efficiency
Madison Hubbell of Workforce USA says that she was feeling “calm” earlier than the rhythm skating.
“This morning I used to be feeling so calm, [but I was nervous to] fall into that entice of being so snug that you simply simply go overboard. We’ve been going one hundred pc full out in follow. I used to be feeling very calm even within the locker room, after which rapidly the heartbeat was going,” mentioned Hubbell who topped the rhythm skating along with her accomplice Zachary Donohue.
“Backstage, I might really feel Zach’s coronary heart too, and we took some perhaps additional deep breaths figuring out that we had Workforce USA to point out up for. However I believe we skate our greatest after we know one thing’s on the road and after we really feel like we’re not solely doing it for ourselves, however for different individuals.”
Namita Singh4 February 2022 05:55
Workforce USA tops the chart after two segments of determine skating
After the completion of two of eight segments of determine skating, Workforce USA tops the chart with 20 factors.
- USA, 20 factors
- ROC, 17
- Italy, 14
- Japan, 13
- Folks’s Republic of China, 11
- Georgia, 10
- Canada, 10
- Czech Republic, 9
- Germany, 3
- Ukraine, 2
Namita Singh4 February 2022 05:22
Workforce USA tops rhythm dance
After males’s brief, Workforce USA tops the chart within the ice dance rhythm dance as nicely with Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue setting a brand new private finest rating of 86.56 for the nation beating the earlier better of 2021 World Championships.
ROC’s Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov have been positioned on the quantity two spot within the second section of the Olympic determine skating.
Italy secured third place with 83.83 factors.
Namita Singh4 February 2022 05:19
Nations with ‘appalling human rights stance’ mustn’t host Video games, says Kenworthy
British freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy has urged the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) to not permit international locations which have “appalling human rights stances” to host the Video games as he questioned China’s suitability to host the Winter Olympics.
“I don’t assume any nation needs to be allowed to host the Video games if they’ve appalling human rights stances,” Kenworthy instructed the BBC.
“The IOC ought to take a stance towards a whole lot of these atrocities and rise up for necessary points and by not granting these international locations the fitting to host the Video games, they might create constructive change… perhaps not even letting them compete.
“However it’s all about cash, it looks like… I don’t actually assume they’re nicely suited to host the Video games.”
Namita Singh4 February 2022 04:47