The terrarium of a Winter Games that has been Beijing2022 is winding to its end. It caps an unprecedented Asian Olympic trifecta and sends the planet’s most global sporting event off to the West for the foreseeable future.
after meeting privately with Xi. He waved from a luxury box to Russian athletes unable to compete under their nation’s flag as part of sanctions imposed for a massive state-sponsored doping operation uncovered after the 2014 Sochi Games that Putin hosted.
China swelled with pride, and its social media swelled with comments, as Eileen Gu, an America-born freestyle skier who, her mother’s native country, became an international superstar. Her three medals -- two gold, one silver — set a new record for her sport, and adulation for Gu literally broke the Chinese internet at one point, briefly crashing the servers of Sina Weibo, the massive Twitter-like network.with a dominant gold medal big air performance.
— Norway, a country whose total population of 5 million is less than one half of one percent of the host country’s, led the medal count, as it often does. Russia was second, followed by Germany, Canada and the United States.
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