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Like so of Beijing’s Olympic buildings of yesteryear, the National Indoor Stadium has been revamped for the 2022 games.

Not just covid challenges but criticism over its human rights record. janis mackey frayer reports from beijing. >> the countdown is on. villages are built. venues have been fine-tuned. the water cube where michael phelps swam now the ice cube for curling events. the iconic bird's nest revamped, too. >> we're ready to go. >> reporter: but the pandemic looms large here. the ski jump center, the stands can hold 10,000 people. whether anyone will actually attend will depend on covid. it will mean a winter olympics like no other. for nearly 3,000 athletes. like figure skater nathan chan. >> i would...

Tone Wheeler In early 2000, as the Sydney Olympics buildings were being completed, Anne Susskind, a journalist at Fairfax with a particular interest in architecture and the environment, wrote a stinging critique, Going for Bronze, in the SMH Good Weekend Magazine*. As the title suggests, it lamented the lack of vision and creativity in the architecture. Twelve years later, Metropolis magazine used the same headline for an article on the London Olympics’ buildings. Both articles found their cities’ respective Olympics design to be mundane, ordinary and dull: third rate. Why the disappoin...

Following is a series of edited extracts from the book, ‘Wilful Blindness: How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP agents infiltrated the West’ by Canadian journalist Sam Cooper. The book will be released internationally on 20 May and has been made available exclusively to The Sunday Guardian in India. The extracts

Beijing begins to test venues for 2022 Winter Olympics April 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 15 1of15Local team players compete in a curling competition during a test event for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at National Aquatic Center, also known as the "Water Cube" in Beijing, Thursday, April 1, 2021. Chinese capital hold a 10 days test events for 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in five different venues from April 1-10, becomes the first city to hold both the Winter and Summer Olympics.Andy Wong/APShow MoreShow Less 2of15Local team players compete in a curling competition during a te...