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...
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Figure Skater Kamila Valieva—Gold Medal Favorite—Reportedly At Center Of Russian Drug Scandal At 2022 Olympics
Topline Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva failed a drug test at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing on Wednesday, Reuters reports citing two Russian media outlets, putting into question the gold meda...
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...
Winter Olympics witnesses digital yuan amid warnings
Digital yuan is the Chinese central bank digital currency project. When several countries were exploring to issue their own national digital currency, China took the lead and introduced its CBDC. Howe...
West Remains Skeptical of Digital Yuan Ahead of Use in Olympics
Prospective users and commentators from the West remain skeptical of China’s rollout of the digital yuan during the ongoing Winter Olympics in Beijing. Data privacy remains the primary concern for mos...
U.S. Should Examine Chinese Digital Yuan Rollout during Winter Olympics: Senator Toomey
Senator Pat Toomey, a senior member of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, requested the U.S. administration to closely examine the Chinese digital yuan’s rollout during Beijing Winter Olympics. ...
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott Earns New Zealand’s First Winter Olympics Gold Medal With Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle Win
New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski Synnott reacts as she competes in the snowboard women’s slopestyle final … [+] run during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the Genting Snow Park H ...
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 ...
At Winter Olympics, China Showcases The World It’s Own Cryptocurrency, Digital Yuan
China is pulling all plugs to make its CBDC digital Yuan popular. The e-CNY is one of the three forms of payment that foreign athletes and dignitaries can use at the Enter Olympics Games. The e-CNY is...
China: CBDC makes a low key debut at Winter Olympics, two banks phase out cash
After eight years of guesses, discourse, and conflicting reports, China’s digital yuan CBDC made a rather low-key debut at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on 4 February. Time to introduce “yuan” self...
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...
US lawmakers issue warnings about digital yuan as Winter Olympics kicks off
With the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics completed and all competing athletes currently in China, two members of Congress are warning of the potential dangers of using digital yua...
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 ...
Bitcoin Recovers Amid Stock Volatility While Putin and Xi Open Olympics – Trustnodes
Bitcoin is back to about $38,000 after dipping to $36,400 yesterday as Nasdaq ended up down 3.74% in one of the worst day for stocks in months. After trading hours earnings from Amazon and Snap howeve...
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 protocols may limit test during Olympics
TL; DR Breakdown COVID protocols will limit test of digital yuan during Olympics Olympics attendants in quarantine $13 billion worth of digital yuan transactions recorded Over the last few years, Chin...
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...
There Is Only One Winner Of The Winter Olympics 2022
The Winter Olympics 2022 is surrounded by many controversies, and the artificial snow is the least of the concerns. The Chinese government stands accused of perpetrating genocide and crimes against hu...
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...
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...
‘I Hope People Can Finally Leave You Alone’
Oberlin diver Lucas Draper. Lucas Draper Lucas Draper is a junior at Oberlin College and Conservatory in Lorain County, Ohio, outside Cleveland. He is 21, majoring in both computer science and theater...
Tess Ledeux Changed The Game For Female Freestyle Skiers Right Before The Olympics
ASPEN, CO – JANUARY 21: Tess Ledeux, of La Plagne, France, smiles as she shows off her gold medal … [+] after winning the Jeep Women’s Ski Big Air finals at Buttermilk Mountain for t...
Lindsey Vonn On C0-Directing The Peacock Doc Of Her Childhood Hero Picabo Street
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 07: Lindsey Vonn attends the Premiere Of HBO’s “Lindsey Vonn: … [+] The Final Season” at Writers Guild Theater on November 07, 2019 i...
Scotty James Didn’t Need A Triple Cork To Beat Ayumu Hirano At X Games, But He Will At The Olympics
Australia’s Scotty James beat out Japan’s Ayumu Hirano and his triple cork for men’s halfpipe gold … [+] at X Games Aspen on Friday. Lucas Bruton Once again, the men’s snowboar...
Tara Lipinski Talks Executive Producing Peacock Docuseries ‘Meddling’, Career
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – NOVEMBER 02: Tara Lipinski arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of Open Road … [+] Films’ “Bleed For This” held at Samuel Goldwyn Theater on November 2...
China: e-CNY final preparations underway ahead of Winter Olympics curtain lifter
China is nearing its e-CNY official debut when the Winter Olympics commences on 4 February, 2022. Latest before the debut In an announcement dated 19 January, the People’s Bank of China expanded on th...
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...
Here’s how China might be leading the CBDC race as Winter Olympics draws near
One might be tempted to think that China has dropped out of the crypto race, due to its stance against crypto transactions and more recently, NFTs. However, the country’s latest CBDC adoption stats su...