Not long after deciding on a winter sport to pursue,Bree Walker’s family moved to tropical far north Queensland. Her unlikely journey could see her take the podium in Beijing.
Laura Peel,who also crushed her rivals at a World Cup event this week,is only the third woman to land a quadruple twisting triple backflip.
Antonio Guterres will attend the event despite a US-led diplomatic boycott of the Games to protest China’s human rights record,joined by Australia,Britain,Canada and Japan.
The Dutch Olympic Committee has banned its athletes from taking personal phones to Beijing as the AOC insists it has taken appropriate cybersecurity measures.
The pandemic’s third wave will ruin Olympic campaigns for some unlucky athletes. Australian officials and athletes are doing their best to avoid that scenario.
The Tennis Australia chief questioned the COVID-19 protocols at the Tokyo Olympics,saying they were not as rigorous as those at last year’s Australian Open.
The Chinese port city has been effectively sealed off as authorities implement exit controls after 21 people tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday.
There will be strict COVID rules,limited crowds and some countries have announced a diplomatic boycott,but the IOC says the games will go ahead.
Xi Jinping visited Winter Games sites amid a worsening COVID-19 outbreak and diplomatic tensions with Western nations over human rights issues.
Chinese officials in Australia used the start of the 30-day countdown to the Beijing Games to try to push past diplomatic and trade spats.
China’s meticulous plans to prevent an Olympics-seeded COVID-19 outbreak by sealing all participants inside a “closed loop” will be tested when more than 2000 international athletes,plus 25,000 other “stakeholders,” gather for the Games in February as Omicron rages around the world.