{"id":44603,"date":"2022-02-04T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44603"},"modified":"2022-02-22T00:11:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T00:11:56","slug":"beijing-winter-olympics-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44603","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Winter Olympics 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_44626\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-20-at-6.40.12-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44626\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-44626\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-20-at-6.40.12-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-44626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><sup>Kamila Valieva (2006-)<\/sup><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-20-at-6.40.12-PM.png\"><br \/><\/a>A very controversial Olympics (XXIV, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2022_Winter_Olympics\">Feb 4-20<\/a>) to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>91 nations with nearly 3,000 athletes in 109 events in 7 sports. The slogan is <em>Together for a Shared Future \u4e00\u8d77\u5411\u672a\u6765<\/em>\u00a0and it was opened by president Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>Russians go there under ROC banner because their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csce.gov\/international-impact\/events\/russian-doping-scandal\">old doping scandal<\/a>. Why would they be allowed to compete in the first place?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>How many people are still watching the Olympics nowadays?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2022_Winter_Olympics#Concerns_and_controversies\">11 countries diplomatic boycott<\/a> the game, incl. US, UK, Canada and Australia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-18-at-2.54.48-PM.png\">Taiwan<\/a>, &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">the covid-19 pandemic or Omicron is still raging &#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">Putin of Russia is about to invade Ukraine<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The athletes switching their alliances, high profile\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44599\">such as Eileen Gu<\/a>\u00a0and massive foreign athletes playing for the Chinese ice hockey teams<\/li>\n<li>A mother of eight in Xuzhou <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/asia\/china\/mother-chained-up-video-china-tiktok-b2004247.html\">is chained by her neck<\/a>&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_0383.jpg\">Mrs. Xi<\/a>\u00a0for real or made up by wishful thinking netizens.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/feb\/20\/credit-suisse-secrets-leak-unmasks-criminals-fraudsters-corrupt-politicians\">Credit Suisse revealed<\/a>: unmasks criminals, fraudster and corrupt politicians\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The winter games? Seem the least interesting subject. And the bad judges &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/winter-olympics\/whos-the-fing-judge-olympian-fumes-at-controversial-disqualification\/news-story\/99404fdee5539824397f294c0b95371a?utm_campaign=EditorialSB&amp;utm_source=news.com.au%20Sport&amp;utm_medium=Facebook&amp;utm_content=SocialBakers\">&#8220;Who&#8217;s f***ing judge?&#8221;<\/a> fumes Fanny Smith of Switzerland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very controversial Olympics (XXIV, Feb 4-20) to say the least. 91 nations with nearly 3,000 athletes in 109 events in 7 sports. The slogan is Together for a Shared Future \u4e00\u8d77\u5411\u672a\u6765\u00a0and it was opened by president Xi Jinping. Russians go there under ROC banner because their\u00a0old doping scandal. Why would they be allowed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}