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Feb 23 2022
News
Beijing Olympics
“Beijing doused its Olympic flame on Sunday night, closing a Games that will be remembered for the extremes of its anti-COVID-19 measures and outrage over the doping scandal that enveloped 15-year-old Russian skating sensation Kamila Valieva… They were also stalked by politics, with several countries staging a diplomatic boycott over China's human rights record, and the spectre of invasion of
The Flip Side
Feb 09 2022
Opinion
These Olympics Are Not a Shelter
Sports were never a durable shelter from the world for anyone who wasn’t privileged enough, or naïve enough, to turn them into one. Every game fits into the world it inhabits, for good or ill. The Olympics are even more enmeshed in the rest of the world than other sporting events, as evidenced by the massive political operations that go into landing them for host countries in the first place,
Slate
Feb 04 2022
News
Winter Olympics
“The 2022 Winter Olympics open Friday [in Beijing] under heavy security and warnings from officials that athletes or others could face legal action if they speak out on human rights or other touchy issues. The Games are a reminder of both China’s rise and its disregard for civil liberties, which has prompted a diplomatic boycott led by the United States…
“Rights groups have documented
The Flip Side
Feb 10 2022
Opinion
NBC’s ‘Cataclysmic’ Olympics-Coverage Flop
Dear readers, is there a more beautiful phrase this morning than “cataclysmic loss of audience”?
NBC is facing a cataclysmic loss of audience for the 2022 Winter Olympics as viewership tanked for Friday’s Opening Ceremony, averaging just 16 million.
It is a record low for the Opening Ceremony (20.1 million for 1988 in Calgary was the previous record) and a whopping 43 percent
Jim Geraghty
Feb 18 2022
Opinion
Worst. Olympics. Ever.
Ten days ago, this newsletter noted that the opening days of the Genocide Games — er, the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing — had generated a “cataclysmic loss of audience” for NBC. Over the past week or so, the audience size hasn’t gotten any better — and it’s not just here in the United States:
Television ratings for the Beijing Olympics are off by 50 percent from PyeongChang levels in
Jim Geraghty
Aug 07 2021
Analysis
Tokyo feared Games would spread COVID; numbers suggest that didn't happen
Before the Olympics began, Japan had feared that the 2020 Games, with thousands of officials, media and athletes descending on Tokyo in the middle of a pandemic, might spread COVID-19, introduce new variants and overwhelm the medical system.
But as the Games draw near their end, the infection numbers from inside the Olympic "bubble" - a set of venues, hotels and the media centre to
Reuters
Feb 09 2022
Analysis
Several factors contribute to NBC’s lower Olympic ratings
NBC’s Mike Tirico began Friday’s Winter Olympics opening ceremony by saying, “just over six months ago in Tokyo, we said we were about to embark on an Olympics unlike any other. Now we’re about to top that.”
In the case of ratings, though, topping that has meant producing record lows.
Through the first four nights of competition, NBC is on track for the lowest-rated Winter Games
Associated Press
Feb 10 2022
Opinion
China’s Shameful Olympics
The greatest athletes in the world have now gathered to compete in the 24th Olympic Winter Games. Usually, the American people await this event with enthusiasm and excitement. This year, we await it with disgust.
This year’s games will be held in the People’s Republic of China, a Communist nation that enslaves workers, imprisons children in concentration camps, forcefully sterilizes and
Tom Cotton
Mar 20 2021
News
It's official: Due to coronavirus concerns, no overseas spectators will be allowed at Tokyo Games
The organizers of this summer’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics decided on Saturday that the games will be staged without overseas spectators due to the coronavirus pandemic, the games’ organizing committee said.
The organizers came to the decision during a high-level remote meeting on Saturday, just five days before the 121-day Olympic torch relay starts in Fukushima Prefecture. The
The Japan Times
Mar 26 2023
News
Japan Urges China To Release Citizen Held In Beijing
Japan's government urged China on Monday to release a Japanese man detained in Beijing this month for allegedly breaking domestic laws. Japanese government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters that Tokyo's embassy in Beijing was informed "this month that a Japanese man in his fifties was detained in Beijing for breaking China's domestic laws." He gave no details on the man's identity, nor
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