Beijing Olympics

Bindra was the first ever Indian to win an individual gold medal, in Beijing 2008.

Ever since Vijender Singh in Beijing 2008, no male Indian boxer has won a medal at the Olympics.

Indian wrestlers have delivered a medal every single time at the Olympics since the 2008 Beijing edition.

Russian skater Kamila Valieva claimed that a strawberry dessert made by her grandfather on a board he used to crush his pills could have been the cause of her positive doping test.

Abhinav Bindra started a revolution for Olympic sport in India by winning a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Games

Most international sports events have been on hold in China since the Covid-19 pandemic, although Beijing hosted the Winter Olympics in a strict bio-bubble in February.

China's central bank has stated that it will further expand a pilot scheme of its digital currency to more areas, including cities in the eastern Zhejiang province which is set to host the Asian Games later this year.

China on Thursday denied a report it asked Russia to delay its invasion of Ukraine until after the Beijing Winter Olympics, as international scrutiny grows of warming ties between the two powers.

China is provoking India at every turn just as it is doing with the United States and Washington is committed to accelerating progress in strengthening India's defence capacity to deter Chinese provocations, a senior Biden administration official has

A Uyghur doctor, who served as a torchbearer in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, is serving an 18-year jail sentence, said a media report.

North Korea fired a ballistic missile Sunday, Seoul said, resuming a weapons-testing blitz following a month of relative calm during the Beijing Winter Olympics, and while the world focuses on Ukraine.

Swedish speed skater Nils van der Poel has given one of the two gold medals he won in Beijing to Chinese-Swedish dissident Gui Minhai to protest against China's human rights violations, Amnesty International said on Friday.

Cross-country skier Remi Lindholm had a rather uncomfortable time while racing in the 50-km mass start event at the Beijing Games. Though race was shortened to 30 km, situation did not help the skier from Finland - a sensitive body part had frozen.

Warnings to use disposable “burner” phones and laptops. Privacy-protecting software. Concerns about a security flaw in an official Games smartphone app. Such precautions fuelled unease about data privacy for competitors and attendees at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. Not everyone heeded them.

A Beijing Winter Olympics which saw sporting drama and milestones but was tarnished by a doping scandal ended on Sunday with an uplifting closing ceremony.

Bindra was the first ever Indian to win an individual gold medal, in Beijing 2008.

Ever since Vijender Singh in Beijing 2008, no male Indian boxer has won a medal at the Olympics.

Indian wrestlers have delivered a medal every single time at the Olympics since the 2008 Beijing edition.

Russian skater Kamila Valieva claimed that a strawberry dessert made by her grandfather on a board he used to crush his pills could have been the cause of her positive doping test.

Abhinav Bindra started a revolution for Olympic sport in India by winning a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Games

Most international sports events have been on hold in China since the Covid-19 pandemic, although Beijing hosted the Winter Olympics in a strict bio-bubble in February.

China's central bank has stated that it will further expand a pilot scheme of its digital currency to more areas, including cities in the eastern Zhejiang province which is set to host the Asian Games later this year.

China on Thursday denied a report it asked Russia to delay its invasion of Ukraine until after the Beijing Winter Olympics, as international scrutiny grows of warming ties between the two powers.

China is provoking India at every turn just as it is doing with the United States and Washington is committed to accelerating progress in strengthening India's defence capacity to deter Chinese provocations, a senior Biden administration official has

A Uyghur doctor, who served as a torchbearer in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, is serving an 18-year jail sentence, said a media report.

North Korea fired a ballistic missile Sunday, Seoul said, resuming a weapons-testing blitz following a month of relative calm during the Beijing Winter Olympics, and while the world focuses on Ukraine.

Swedish speed skater Nils van der Poel has given one of the two gold medals he won in Beijing to Chinese-Swedish dissident Gui Minhai to protest against China's human rights violations, Amnesty International said on Friday.

Cross-country skier Remi Lindholm had a rather uncomfortable time while racing in the 50-km mass start event at the Beijing Games. Though race was shortened to 30 km, situation did not help the skier from Finland - a sensitive body part had frozen.

Warnings to use disposable “burner” phones and laptops. Privacy-protecting software. Concerns about a security flaw in an official Games smartphone app. Such precautions fuelled unease about data privacy for competitors and attendees at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. Not everyone heeded them.

A Beijing Winter Olympics which saw sporting drama and milestones but was tarnished by a doping scandal ended on Sunday with an uplifting closing ceremony.