The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will hold an additional day of its 139th Session later this year after shortening the meeting in Beijing next month because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Polish President Andrzej Duda is set to attend the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing after the country denounced the planned diplomatic boycott of the event.

Australia’s team will wear their traditional colours of green and gold at the Opening Ceremony of Beijing 2022, but the decision to introduce a camouflage design has been hailed by freestyle skier Brodie Summers, set to compete at his third Winter Olympics in the moguls.

Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin has announced that all the country’s pre-Games training bases will be closed off from the outside world to mitigate the risk of athletes catching COVID-19 before the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Athletes representing Kazakhstan at next month’s Winter Olympics in Beijing 2022 are set to wear uniform with the name of their country in the Kazakh language for the first time.

Former short track speed skating star Allison Baver, an Olympic bronze medallist at Vancouver 2010, has pleaded not guilty against nine charges of fraud.

Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) chief executive Yiannis Exarchos expects the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics to match the "iconic" showpiece event that opened the Summer Games in 2008.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has announced that two temporary offices will open in Chinese capital Beijing in a bid to resolve doping and legal disputes at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

A short documentary film detailing the life and career of Ghanaian skeleton racer Akwasi Frimpong, the first African male to compete in the sport at the Winter Olympic Games, has been released on YouTube.

A study from researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada has deduced that failure to reduce global emissions may mean that only one of the previous 21 Winter Olympics host cities would be able to produce fair and safe conditions for future events.

Germany's four-time Olympic luge gold medallist Natalie Geisenberger has decided to compete at next month’s Winter Olympics in Beijing after considering boycotting the Games due to concerns over COVID-19 conditions in place in China.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been branded "irresponsible" for requiring participants to use an application devised to monitor the health of attendees at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing "with such glaring security vulnerabilities".

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.