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Freestyle skiers for Team USA at the Winter Olympics spoke out against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), saying they were “heartbroken” over what was happening. While speaking at a press conference, Chris Lillis and Hunter Hess attempted to distance

One Olympian in Milan has apparently decided to protest the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency by using unsanitary methods.

Lindsey Vonn completed her first downhill training run on Friday morning, a critical test in her bid to return from a ruptured ACL and pursue her 2026 Winter Olympics dreams.

Fans at the Winter Olympics in Italy were advised to “be respectful” to the American delegation of athletes and officials during the opening ceremony on Friday.

U.S. Olympic officials bowed to the protests of pro-illegal migrant activists and dropped the name “Ice House” for its athlete lounge.

Saying, “I’m gonna do it,” U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn says she intends to compete at the Olympics despite suffering a brutal ACL tear last week,

U.S. Winter Olympics skiing star Lindsey Vonn was hospitalized after a brutal crash on the slopes during the Alpine Skiing World Cup.

Olympic gold medalist skier Lindsey Vonn will not commit to a White House invite, stopping short of repeating her 2017 outright refusal. 

Traitor Eileen GU, the U.S.-born skier who competed for China, has been awarded the ESPY for “Breakthrough Athlete of the Year.” 

Uyghur cross-country ski Olympian Dinigeer ­Yilamujiang resurfaced in an interview with the Chinese government propaganda outlet Global Times on Friday, denying the ongoing genocide of her people in East Turkistan and claiming reports of her disappearance were untrue.

China’s state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper praised Chinese athlete Eileen Gu, a California-born American who chose to represent the Communist Party at the Beijing Olympics, for helping the children of people who fled China’s oppressive communist regime embrace Beijing.

China’s state propaganda outlet Global Times shared the effusive praise of American athletes for Chinese Communist Party “volunteers” at the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday, particularly their alleged glee at the fact that the volunteers all perform the same choreographed greeting when an athlete passes by.

The Chinese state-run Global Times applauded its program recruiting Americans to compete in China’s name at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Tuesday as proof the country, which is currently engaging in genocide, is “open and diversified.”

China is reportedly keeping coronavirus-positive winter Olympians in “unreasonable” quarantine conditions. 

Race activist Rev. Al Sharpton is criticizing Speaker Nancy Pelosi for telling Olympic athletes not to criticize the Communist Chinese Party.

40 percent of Americans said the reason they aren’t tuning into the Winter Olympics is because the Communist Chinese Party is hosting.

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus served as a torchbearer in the last leg of the Olympic relay in Beijing on Friday, lending his support to an event the victims of communism assert is a celebration of genocide and other human rights atrocities.

Germany will attend the CCP’s Winter Olympics, despite the country’s Chancellor declaring he has no intention of travelling himself.

A Lunar New Year event in Chinatown, New York, this week boasted a giant banner advertising the Beijing Winter Olympics under another sign claiming a group called the “Tibetan Association of North America” had sponsored it. The president of the Tibetan Association of New York and New Jersey told Breitbart News the group appeared “definitely” fake.

China prominently featured a soldier who participated in the 2020 Galwan Valley battle against India as an Olympics torchbearer during a relay in Beijing on Wednesday, stoking tensions with its next-door neighbor by returning the vicious brawl – which India won – to the headlines.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi scolded American Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a phone call on Thursday, complaining that Washington’s discomfort with China hosting the Winter Olympics and its support for Taiwan were inconvenient for Beijing.

Children’s YouTube star Blippi — a household staple for parents of young children boasting 14.8 million subscribers on the video hosting site — debuted a video this weekend in partnership with NBC promoting the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

Human Rights Watch (HRW), a human rights organization known for its anti-Israel bias, hosted a seminar Tuesday in which athletes traveling to China for the Winter Olympics were advised to stay quiet about human rights issues while in the country.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) warned athletes preparing to play at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics this week that China allows the meat industry to use a steroid on animals that could result in a positive test for banned substances if a person eats that animal.

Basketball legend Yao Ming made a media appearance on Monday to promote the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in which he invited anti-communist player Enes Kanter Freedom to visit China and defended the country’s treatment of tennis champion Peng Shuai.

American lawmakers sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday demanding an explanation for the IOC’s business deals with two Chinese apparel companies that source their cotton out of Xinjiang, a far-west occupied region where evidence suggests widespread use of slave labor.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) published a video this week featuring over two dozen athletes calling for governments around the world to more effectively distribute vacccines for Chinese coronavirus to the most vulnerable.

In what can only be described as a Disney moment, a U.S. Olympic speed skater relinquished her spot over to a fellow teammate.

Human rights activists and victims of the communist regime in China launched a campaign on Monday to encourage American athletes to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, for moral reasons as well as their own safety.

The repressive communist government of North Korea announced on Friday through state media channels that it would not participate in the 2020 Beijing Winter Olympics, citing condemnation of its ally China by “hostile forces” as the reason.

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Monday that construction is still under way on venues for the Winter Olympics in the city of Zhangjiakou, where many of the skiing and snowboarding events for the Beijing Games will take place. 

A State Department spokesperson confirmed to the South China Morning Post on Tuesday that President Joe Biden is sending over a dozen officials to China in anticipation of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, an apparent violation of his own “diplomatic boycott.”

The Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday that an unconfirmed number of American officials have requested Chinese visas to travel to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics despite President Joe Biden announcing a “diplomatic boycott” of the event this month.

As the year comes to a close, the Chinese government, broadcaster NBC, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have begun ramping up promotion for the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics – held under a regime currently committing genocide and actively persecuting athletes and journalists.

China’s state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper admitted on Thursday that the regime’s decision to lock down Xi’an, a city area of 13 million people, over Chinese coronavirus cases was a response to “pressure” over keeping the atmosphere safe for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

Chinese state outlets and government-censored social media users unleashed a “tsunami of anger” against the American computer chip maker Intel on Wednesday in response to news that the company sent a letter to Chinese suppliers warning it not to source products from Xinjiang.