CBC/Radio-Canada has been awarded the exclusive Canadian broadcasting rights for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing and the 2024 Summer Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced today, marking an extension to the partnership between the two organisations.

Beijing will host the 2017 World Women's Curling Championships, in what will prove a key marker of the city's winter sporting credentials five years before the Olympic and Paralympic Games are due to be held in the Chinese capital, it was announced today. 

The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) will submit a bid to have Para-bobsleigh and Para-skeleton included on the Winter Paralympic Games Programme at Beijing 2022, insidethegames has been told.

The application process for sports to be included at the 2022 Winter Paralympic Games in Beijing has been opened today by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

Hangzhou is set to be confirmed as host of the 2022 Asian Games at the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) General Assembly here tomorrow, meaning 2022 Winter Olympics hosts China will be scheduled to hold two major multi-sporting events in the same year.

Pyeongchang 2018 President Cho Yang-ho was given the chance to present the Organising Committee’s Olympic Truce Programme after he attended the annual Executive Board Meeting of the International Olympic Truce Foundation (IOTF) at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has claimed his country will “deliver on all its promises” ahead of Beijing 2022 during a meeting with International Olympic Committee (IOC) counterpart Thomas Bach in the Chinese capital.

Chinese city Hangzhou has submitted an official bid to host the 2022 Asian Games, the Chinese Olympic Committee has announced.

A final word, if I may, on the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s Vote-gate.

When Tony Blair became leader of the British Labour Party in 1994 he realised that, while his two predecessors had gone some way towards modernising the party from its socialist roots, too few people believed there had been genuine change.

His remodelled “New” Labour Party thus introduced some substantial measures, but was more than anything else a rhetorical device to hammer home this symbolic break from the past.

Thomas Bach, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, today wasted no time in signalling that a significant revamp of the winning Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic project is probably in the offing.

It was mightily close but there was no upset.

Embarrassing technical glitches meant it needed a re-vote conducted the old-fashioned way; but the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today heeded their heads over their hearts and elected Beijing as host of the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Beijing has been awarded the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics after beating Kazakhstan rival Almaty, albeit by a much narrower margin than many expected, it has been announced here today.

Almost the first thing we saw was the Bird’s Nest Stadium; the second was an International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president; the third was a video from Xi Jinping, the Chinese President.