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FILE - In this July 14, 2021, file photo, journalists film the National Ski Jumping Centre, one of the venues for Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, during a media tour in Zhangjiakou in northwestern China's Hebei province. The IOC says the Olympics are only about the sports; no politics allowed. But reporters from other countries who puncture the PR skin to explore other aspects of life in China — as they have in Japan during the Tokyo Olympics — could draw more than criticism. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
Beijing Games: Sports coverage fine, other things maybe not

By Stephen Wade Aug. 02, 2021 02:24 AM EDT

The Olympic rings are visible atop the Olympic Tower in Beijing, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. A small core of international lawyers and activists are prodding leading Olympic sponsors to acknowledge China's widely reported human-rights abuses against Muslim Uyghurs, Tibetans and other minorities. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Rights groups target sponsors like Airbnb for Beijing Games

By Stephen Wade Feb. 25, 2021 10:48 PM EST

Former track federation president Lamine Diack, centre left, leaves the courtroom after his trial in Paris, France, Wednesday, September 16, 2020. Diack has been sentenced to two years in prison for his role in a scheme that allowed Russian athletes who paid hush money to keep competing when they should have been suspended for doping.(AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh)
Olympic bid scandal linked to former IOC member's son

Sep. 21, 2020 08:48 AM EDT

A symbol installed for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 on a barge is moved away from its usual spot by tugboats off the Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. The five Olympic rings floating on a barge in Tokyo Bay were removed for what is being called “maintenance,” and officials says they will return to greet next year's Games. The Tokyo Olympics have been postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic and are to open on July 23, 2021. The Paralympics follow on Aug. 24. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
Survey: Majority of Japanese firms oppose Olympics next year

Aug. 20, 2020 09:36 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2018, file photo, Chinese performers dance during a ceremony to mark the arrival of the Olympic flag and start of the flag tour for the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 at a section of the Great Wall of China on the outskirts of Beijing. Uncertainty surrounds how the postponed Tokyo Olympics will be held next year in the midst of the coronavirus. The same questions permeate three mega-events that will be staged in China within a year after the Tokyo Games close. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
Tokyo Olympics followed up by 3 mega-events -- all in China

By Stephen Wade May. 22, 2020 02:29 AM EDT