Topline U.S. figure skater Nathan Chen won the gold medal in the men’s figure skating competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Thursday after putting on a staggering performance the event’s free ...
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U.S. Snowboarder Chloe Kim Does It Again, Wins Halfpipe Gold Medal At Beijing Winter Olympics
Topline U.S snowboarder Chloe Kim won the gold medal in the women’s halfpipe event at the 2022 Beijing Olympics on Thursday, in a victory that cements her superstardom in the sport and follows her spe...
Olympic Games Jam Beijing 2022
Olympic Games Jam: Beijing 2022 is the Winter Olympic’s official play-to-earn multiplayer mobile game, created in collaboration between Animoca Brands-owned nWayPlay game studio and the Internat...
NFT Drops Amid Beijing Winter Olympics Event
Following the Summer Olympics in 2008, China will host the 24th Winter Olympics. The event led to the inspiration for the launch of Alibaba and Bithumb’s NFT collectibles. Alibaba, a Chinese multinati...
Snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis Snags First Gold Medal For Team USA At Beijing Winter Olympics
Topline Snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis became the first American athlete to win a gold medal at the 2022 Beijing Olympics on Wednesday after she held on to an early lead in the women’s snowboar...
Beijing Olympics Will Be Shaun White’s Final Competition Of His Career
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 28: Shaun White gets fitted in Polo Ralph Lauren ahead of Beijing … [+] 2022 on January 28, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty I...
Top Snowboarders Who Could Medal In Slopestyle, Halfpipe And Big Air At Beijing Olympics
ZHANGJIAKOU, CHINA – FEBRUARY 03: Zoi Sadowski Synnott of Team New Zealand performs a trick during … [+] the Snowboard Slopestyle Training session ahead of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic ...
Olympic Games Beijing 2022 edition
Today’s Nifty News rounds up nonfungible token (NFT) projects centered around the Winter Olympics, which began Friday in Beijing, China. The following are initiatives taken by the International ...
Hundreds Worldwide Protest China’s Human Rights Abuses As Beijing Winter Olympics Kick Off
Topline Hundreds of people in several countries on Friday protested against China’s repression of its Muslim Uyghur minority and Tibetans as the Beijing Winter Olympics kicked off amid diplomatic boyc...
Senator sounds the alarm on international rollout of digital yuan during Beijing Olympics
advertisement One senator is calling on US President Joe Biden’s cabinet to watch out for China’s digital yuan, which is seeing its first international usage during the Winter Olympics in ...
IOC launches Beijing Olympics-themed mobile game with NFTs
Olympic Games Jam: Beijing 2022 is a Winter Games-themed game that incorporates non-fungible tokens (NFTs). nWay The International Olympic Committee has become the latest organization to jump into the...
Record Numbers Of Openly LGBTQ+ Athletes Will Compete At Beijing 2022 — Including First Openly Nonbinary Winter Olympian
Topline Beijing 2022 has the highest number of openly LGBTQ+ competitors at a Winter Olympic Games ever, including its first nonbinary athlete, hot on the heels of a record-setting Games in Tokyo last...
14 Team USA Female Athletes To Watch And Support At Beijing Olympics
PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA – FEBRUARY 13: Gold medalist Chloe Kim of the United States celebrates … [+] during the victory ceremony for the Snowboard Ladies’ Halfpipe Final on day ...
COVID restrictions stymie digital yuan rollout at Beijing Winter Olympics: Report
Though athletes and support staff arriving for the Beijing 2022 Olympics still have the option of using digital currency for payments at many venues, the international test run of China’s CBDC is repo...
Charter Flights, Covid Tests And Other Logistics Of Getting Team USA To Beijing For Olympics
A Delta Air Lines charter flight from LAX departed for Beijing on Thursday morning to transport more … [+] than 100 Team USA athletes to the Winter Olympics. It’s a long journey that invol...
China’s Baidu, Geely put nearly $400 million into electric car venture Jidu
An outline of Jidu’s concept car is pictured here. Jidu is the electric car company set up by Chinese internet giant Baidu and automaker Geely. Jidu plans to begin mass production and deliveries...
Beijing Begins Third Round Of Mass Covid-19 Testing Ahead Of Winter Olympics
Topline China’s capital Beijing began a third round of mass testing of millions of its residents on Wednesday as Covid-19 cases in the city continued to trickle upward a week before the city is set to...
China Ends Month-Long Covid Lockdown In Xi’an, New Restrictions In Beijing As Cases Rise
Topline Chinese authorities on Monday lifted a month-long pandemic lockdown in the city of Xi’an and its 13 million residents as Covid-19 cases in the region abated, ending the most stringent pandemic...
Pharmaron Beijing Says Profit Rose Amid U.S., UK Expansion
Pharmaron Beijing’s shares trade in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Photographer: Roy Liu/Bloomberg © 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP Pharmaron Beijing, a China-based pharmaceutical research services company ...
U.S. Cancels 44 Chinese Airline Flights In Retaliation For China’s Suspension Of Service By U.S. Carriers
Topline The U.S. Department of Transportation is suspending 44 flights from the United States to China by four Chinese airlines, it said Friday, in retaliation for Beijing canceling the same number of...
Beijing Olympics App Could Expose Athletes’ Personal Data, Researchers Warn
Topline An app that athletes, spectators and media attending the Beijing Olympic Games must download and use for daily Covid-19 monitoring has security flaws that could expose users’ personal informat...
Denmark Latest Country To Join U.S.-Led Diplomatic Boycott Of Beijing Olympics
Topline Denmark will not send diplomats to next month’s Beijing Winter Olympics, marking the latest country to boycott the event due to human rights abuses in China, and the Netherlands is keeping its...
Tencent’s Pony Ma Vows To Serve The Country Amid Government’s Tech Crackdown
Ma Huateng, chairman and CEO of Tencent, attends a news conference in Hong Kong, China, on March 21, … [+] 2019. Justin Chin/Bloomberg Low-profile tech billionaire Pony Ma has issued another ple...
Meet The Just-Announced U.S. Olympic Ski And Snowboard Team For The Beijing Games
Reigning Olympic snowboarding slopestyle gold medalists Jamie Anderson and Red Gerard won their … [+] respective events at the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain Saturday and were offici...
WeChat Offers Digital Yuan Payments Ahead of Beijing Winter Games
WeChat has become compatible with payments using the digital yuan ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics, owner Tencent Holdings said. The move by Tencent comes at a time when the Chinese government pla...