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Articles on 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
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It’s time for organizations like the IPC to stop lamenting the intersection of sport and politics, and instead accept this well-established reality going forward.
Finnish cross-country skier Remi Lindholm suffered from a frozen penis during the Beijing Winter Olympics.
A doctor and lifelong figure skater explains what was found in Valieva’s drug test, what effects the substances might have and how performance enhancements might benefit a figure skater.
Innovation made the 2022 Winter Games possible in Beijing, but snowmaking has limits in a warming climate.
Banning young athletes from the Olympics would mean we miss their spectacular performances, but considering all we know about overtraining, exploitation and abuse in sport, that might be OK.
Some reports suggest around 24% of Olympians and Paralympians suffer with poor mental health after the Games.
The International Olympic Committee oversees several humanitarian initiatives. But it avoids letting human rights concerns interfere with the Games, even in countries with rampant violations.
As temperatures warm, ski and snowboard resorts are investing more in snowmaking and seeing their seasons shrink. Those costs roll down to customers in an already expensive sport.
The well-being of Olympians is of secondary importance is secondary to pomp and profit.
Few nations know how to politicize the Olympics as effectively as China does.
What does it take to deliver a medal-winning performance in skeleton, which involves racing down a banked track faster than a car on a freeway, with your face mere centimetres from the ice?
Il y a très peu de neige en Afrique, mais, depuis 1984, au moins un pays africain a participé à chaque édition des Jeux olympiques d'hiver. Ce qui a fait des athlètes envoyés des pionniers.
The game of curling is centuries old, but exactly what makes the stones curl as they slide over the ice is still a mystery.
From projecting onto athletes to aesthetic appreciation, spectators get a surprising amount out of watching other people play sports.
In Beijing’s climate, you could coat a Sydney apartment in a few inches of snow with the same energy the air conditioning would use in an hour.
Air pollution are typically high during the winter months in Beijing, research shows.
As the Winter Olympics are showing, the unique cultures of action sports seem to support long careers among the top athletes – something other sports and society in general could learn from.
From pioneering green energy grids to mountains of fake snow.
The similarities between ongoing settler-colonialism in China and the history of settler-colonialism in Canada are frighteningly similar.
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Assistant Professor, Kinesiology, Western University
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Professor Emerita of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Assistant Professor, Sport Ecology, University of Toronto
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Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Honorary Professor, School of Kinesiology, Western University, London, Canada; Adjunct Fellow, Olympic Scholar and Co-Director of the Olympic and Paralympic Research Centre, Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University
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Pozen Visiting Professor, Human Rights Scholar, University of Chicago
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Professor, School of Sport, Health and Human Performance, University of Waikato
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Senior lecturer, Sol Plaatje University
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Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Professor in Sociology of Sport and Gender, University of Waikato
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham
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Director, China Studies Centre, Professor of Chinese Politics, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, and Head of the School of Marketing and International Business, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Lecturer | Pūkenga in Sports Management and Marketing, University of Canterbury
