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Fatal Race & Birthday Party Hinder Olympic Build-up

The next few months are not likely to see a huge amount of action when it come to Winter Olympic sports in China. Beijing is very much in waiting mode for at least three main reasons: a celebration, a mourning and the Tokyo Olympics.

In this week’s look at all the latest news in the build-up to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics:

  • Waiting for Tokyo
  • A political birthday party
  • An ultramarathon in Gansu goes catastrophically wrong
  • The latest boycott threats from around the world
  • CNN’s selective timeline
  • All the other features and stories of interest
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Doping, diplomacy and deadbeat players

Fresh off making their 2017 China Sources list, this is my debut China Sports column for SupChina, which you can read in full here. Below is a summary of what went on this week. 

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