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Olympic Hockey Results 2022: Men's, Women's Wednesday Scores, Highlights thumbnail

Olympic Hockey Results 2022: Men’s, Women’s Wednesday Scores, Highlights

ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty ImagesFinland hockey had a monumental Wednesday at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.The women's team beat Switzerland 4-0 in the bronze-medal game. This marks the second consecutive third-place finish at the Olympics for the Finnish women's squad. Earlier in the day, the men's team clinched a berth in the semifinal with a…
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Winter Olympic Sites Are Melting Away because of Climate Crisis

As greenhouse gas emissions rise, more venues will face conditions that professional athletes consider unfair or unsafeCompetitors from the first Winter Olympics are towed by a horse-drawn carriage through deep snow to the starting point of the bobsleigh event at the Piste de Bobsleigh des Pellerins in Chamonix, France, on February 2, 1924. The track was constructed…
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Was Olympic champ wrongly awarded gold?

Australia is looking for answers after a complete decimation at the Winter Olympics that shows how unforgiving the Games are.A flurry of gold medals have been run and won on day four of the Winter Olympics in China.The big moment for Australia came in the men’s singles figure skating with Brendan Kerry moving through to…
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Olympic Opening Ceremonies 2022: Best Social Highlights and Reaction

AP Photo/David J. PhillipThe 2022 Winter Olympics are officially underway.Opening ceremonies kicked off the festivities Friday in Beijing, with the Chinese capital becoming the first to ever host both a Summer and Winter Games. Beijing previously hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics. While the action in some events had already gotten underway earlier this week, the ceremony…
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Olympic Committee Becomes Latest Target of Critics of Treatment of Uyghurs thumbnail

Olympic Committee Becomes Latest Target of Critics of Treatment of Uyghurs

A human-rights group has called on the International Olympic Committee to explain what steps it has taken to ensure that official apparel for next month’s Beijing Winter Games were made without forced labor, saying previous, private attempts to engage the organization weren’t taken seriously. The group, the Coalition to End Forced Labor in the Uyghur…
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Tokyo Olympic stars Rupinder Pal Singh, Birendra Lakra announce retirement

New Delhi: Drag-flicker Rupinder Pal Singh, who played a starring role in the Indian hockey team's historic bronze-winning Tokyo Olympics campaign, on Thursday announced his international retirement with immediate effect "to make way for youngsters". The 30-year-old, regarded as one of the best drag-flickers of the country, represented India in 223 matches. Nicknamed 'Bob', Rupinder…
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