Inside The Games

Public to be absent from shortened Beijing 2022 Torch Relay as UN General Assembly President given prominent role

The Torch Relay will officially launch on February 2, leading up to the Opening Ceremony on February 4. Olympic competition hubs of Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou will be visited by the Olympic ...
Wane

Shortened Olympic torch relay starts for Beijing Games

BEIJING (AP) — The three-day torch relay for the Beijing Olympics, shortened considerably because of concerns about the coronavirus, started Wednesday with an 80-year-old former speedskater carrying ...
Inside The Games

IOC brushes aside concerns about possible protests at Beijing 2022 Torch Lighting Ceremony

The IOC says it is not concerned about protests during the Olympic Torch Lighting Ceremony, due to begin in Olympia on Monday ©ITG "It is the start of something very precious," Adams said, speaking ...
Reuters

Protest disrupts Beijing Winter Olympics torch-lighting ceremony

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, ...
TASS

Chinese legendary actor Jackie Chan carries 2022 Olympic Flame torch atop Great Wall

BEIJING, February 3. /TASS/. China’s world-famous movie star Jackie Chan carried the Olympic flame atop the Great Wall as part of the Olympic Torch relay ahead of the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, ...
Upstream

Beijing lights torch for green Olympics

More than 200 hydrogen-powered buses are being put into service and all the venues will be powered by green electricity Gain valuable insight into the global oil and gas industry's energy transition ...