Shim Suk-hee’s bid to make the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing has been shattered after a court rejected the two-time short track speed skating champions appeal against two-month ban.

Germany and the United States are the latest countries to warn their athletes over potential surveillance by Chinese authorities and advised not to take their personal mobile phones and laptops prior to leaving for next month's Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.

The Czech Republic is set to take its largest team to date to a Winter Olympics, after a squad of 113 athletes was confirmed for Beijing 2022, an increase of 19 from Pyeongchang 2018.

A bust of International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has been unveiled in central Beijing by IOC and Beijing 2022 vice-president Yu Zaiqing.

Reigning Olympic champions Hanna Huskova, Dzinara Alimbekava and Iryna Leshchanka have been selected among Belarus’ 28-strong squad for next month’s Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.

China has claimed it has surpassed its target of getting 300 million people participating in winter sports by the time of the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing. 

Tickets for the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing will not be sold to the general public because of COVID-19 concerns, organisers have announced.

Nordic combined skier Akito Watabe looks set to be chosen as one of Japan’s flagbearers for the Opening Ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.

Shane Doan has been appointed general manager of Canada's men's ice hockey team for next month's Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, with Claude Julien head coach.

Beijing will require all travellers to undergo a COVID-19 test within 72 hours of entering the Chinese capital until at least the end of March.

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has formally selected its first athletes for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, mixed doubles curlers Dean Hewitt and Tahli Gill.

Czech President Miloš Zeman has criticised the politicisation of the Olympic Games as an increasing number of countries join a United States-led diplomatic boycott of Beijing 2022.

Close to 100 per cent of residents at the Athletes' Village for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games will be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has claimed.

The Beijing 2022 Organising Committee has published a Pre-Games Sustainability Report which its President Cai Qi has claimed demonstrates "our successful efforts in staging a green Games".