Finland's ice hockey coach accuses China of not respecting human rights as player remains in COVID isolation

Finland’s men’s ice nhl” target=”_blank”>hockey< of not respecting a player’s human rights at the olympics” target=”_blank”>Winter Olympics<.  Jukka Jalonen took aim at the conditions the 6-foot-8, 230-pound Finnish player is under while in isolation, which he said has taken a toll on Anttila, both physically and mentally.  LIVE UPDATES: BEIJING OLYMPICS CBC News.  “He’s not…

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Winter Olympics 2022: Ukraine, ROC athletes compete as tensions between countries at fever pitch

For Ukraine and Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) athletes competing at the olympics” target=”_blank”>Winter Olympics< Lidiia Hunko of Ukraine competes in her first run during the IBSF World Championships 2021 Altenberg Women’s Monobob competition at the Eiskanal Altenberg on Feb. 13, 2021, in Altenberg, Germany. (Martin Rose/Getty Images) Reuters on Friday. Hunko said she wasn’t looking…

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Swim against Penn's Lia Thomas at NCAAs? Not 'a problem,' Stanford Olympic silver medalist Brooke Forde says

Brooke Forde, a swimming star for ncaa who also won a silver medal at the Tokyo olympics” target=”_blank”>Olympics< remained unclear. Thomas was thrust into the national spotlight amid the debate over whether transgender female athletes competing against biological females in college sports was unfair toward biological female athletes. Thomas set records at the Zippy Invitational…

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Team USA to feature 4 US service members at Beijing Olympics

At least four U.S. military” target=”_blank”>military< in Beijing next month. The crew includes:  military Sgt. Emily Sweeney (luge) from Suffield, Connecticut; military Airman 1st Class Kelly Curtis (skeleton) from Princeton, New Jersey;Army Spc. Frank Del Duca (bobsled) from Bethel, Maine; andArmy Spc. Hakeem Abdul-Saboor (bobsled), from Powhatan, Virginia, FOX 13 of Seattle reported. NBC VOWS WINTER…

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