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