Snowboarder Jamie Anderson has strong opinions about China hosting the Winter Games, but knows that "at least for this one time in life, the world comes together over sports".

Snowboarder Charlotte Bankes wants to 'repay' Team Great Britain's support...with a Beijing 2022 medal.

Snowboarder Scotty James enters the social entertainment news courtesy his sister's engagement.

Meet Jenise Spiteri...model, content creator, descendant of ice sports legacy, and...Beijing 2022-bound snowboarder for Malta.

NIgeria will be represented at a second Winter Games, after all. Meet cross-country skier Samuel Ikpefan.

"It's not about being the best, it's about trying your best." Cross-country skier Emil Iversen looks to his second Winter Olympics.

Team Great Britain's cross-country skier Andrew Musgrave starts an Olympic column for Idrettspolitikk.

Alpine skiers Audrey King and Adrian Yung Hau-tsuen are "super proud" and "forever grateful" to represent Hong Kong at Beijing 2022.

"Dedication and perseverance": Alpine skier Armand Marchant looks toward his first Winter Olympics after years of surgeries and rehabilitation. (in French)

Luger Jonny Gustafson unknowingly began his Winter Olympic journey 13 years ago at age 11 at a local college's sledding tryout.

Dorothea Wierer, champion biathlete and social media star, reveals 'inner secrets'.

​Meet Sean Doherty, Team USA biathlete - and expert woodturner.

Moguls skier Cooper Woods targeted a place on Team Australia at age 13 and now heads to Beijing 2022: "It is the number one event that you can go to in our sport, so I am really excited".

Freestyler Gus Kenworthy gets a second Gay Times cover feature on the eve of his third and final Games.

Bloomberg: China is counting on freestyle skier Eileen Gu during the Winter Olympics.

Chloe McMillan is looking to inspire other Kiwis with her freestyle halfpipe Olympic debut appearance..

At Beijing 2022, Team Canada will feature a brother-sister duo, as freestyle skier Cassie Sharpe returns to the Games alongside snowboarder Darcy.

Eurosport checks in with the new "Team GB Olympic couple to focus on", speed skaters Cornelius Kersten and Emilia Smeding.

Champion speed skater - and chair of the Beijing 022 Athletes' Commission - Yang Yang headlines a group of athletes to highlight anti-'competition manipulation' measures.

Short track speed skater Corinne Stoddard joins an impressive line of Olympians with a connection to Federal Way, Washington.

From one-time NFL hopeful to a Beijing 2022-bound bobsled athlete...meet Team USA's Charlie Volker.

Persistence and stubbornness has brought bobsledder Bree Walker to Beijing 2022 after a self-funded conversion to the sport.

Ice hockey skater and Colgate University student Noemi Neubauerova is "beyond excited" for Beijing 2022, and out to prove Czech Republic can compete.

Can Team China's 'Lady Dragons' improve on their Vancouver 2010 seventh-place finish, using the experience of three returnees from that squad?

Chris Plays may be "the busiest person in Beijing" as he competes in men's and mixed doubles curling, but he's up for it.

Curler Bruce Mouat to Pride of the Terraces: "In an ideal world, it would obviously be held in a place that didn't have these issues, but as an athlete I want to come away with an Olympic medal."

Pyeongchang 2018 ski jump champion Maren Lundby laments weight-related stress in her sport.

"That was pretty good." Billy Demong reflects on his historic Olympic Nordic combined win at Vancouver 2010 for Team USA.

Team USA's John Daly knows he's learned the skills it takes to be a four-time Olympic skeleton racer.

Another Olympic power couple! Skeleton sliders Kim Meylemans and Nicole Silveira will compete - against the clock and each other - at Beijing 2022.

Will figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu land a quadruple axel at Beijing 2022?

​Is Team USA's singles skater Alysia Lu the 'Simone Biles of figure skating'?
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More Outsports: Lewis Gibson talks coming out as LGBTQ, ice dancing, and partnership with Lilah fear.

A look at some of your favorite Beijing 2022 athletes traveling and settling in, through a social media lens.

Bernadette Szocs is here to inspire.

Christiane Endler is sittin' pretty...pink and blue for Adidas.

Matthieu Bailet is a happy Beijing-bound man.

Sifan Hassan presents a hilltop view.

Kiran Badloe enjoys a sunset view.

Who is Marie-Philip Poulin, Team Canada's "Captain Clutch" in ice hockey?

Jack Chelios, son of NHL hall of famer - and four-time Olympian Chris - makes Team China's ice hockey roster for Beijing 2022.

Boxer Paddy Barnes and sailor Analise Murphy headline Team Ireland's newly elected "gender-balanced" Athletes' Commission. 

Basketball-er Patty Mills and swimmer Emma McKeon headline Australia Day honors with Member of the Order of Australia awards.

Meanwhile, Team Australia's skateboarders get a jump start on official training for Paris 2024.

Sofia Raffaeli's "unique musicality and ability to convey emotion" has the rhythmic gymnast primed for more success in her second senior year.

Who is the number one 3x3 basketball player in each country?

Olympics acknowledges the loss of a "true pioneer", as Luisa Harris - the first scorer in Olympic women's basketball passes.

Timothy LeDuc and Ashley Cain-Gribble hope to 'nix traditional notions' of gender roles in pairs figure skating as they hope for a top five finish at Beijing 2022.

Mikhail Kolyada: The specter of Covid-19 Olympic withdrawals hits figure skating first. And there's more.

19-year-old Campbell Wright will be just the second-ever Olympic biathlete for New Zealand.

World Cup leading biathlete Quentin Fillon Maillet has mass start victory dreams for Beijing 2022.

Can Tyson Langelaar, Heather McLean, and Alexa Scott continue a strong run of Manitoban speed skating Olympic success?

At long last, speed skater Itzhak Delaat unveils his helmet design for Beijing 2022.

Ellia Smeding isn't just joining Team Great Britain's squad at Beijing 2022, she's also joining her fellow speed skater boyfriend on the team.

Olympic champion runner Mo Farah talks London 2012, training, Arsenal, and more with The Guardian.

Sprinter Sarah Atcho reveals a heart condition scare...linked to a Covid-19 booster shot?

Rio 2016 sprint medalist Christophe Lemaitre's "eternal return": still competing and looking toward the 2022 season. (in French)

Shot putter Tom Walsh makes an impression on the cricket pitch.

UCLA freshman gymnast Jordan Chiles reflects on her medal-winning experience at Tokyo 2020.

Team USA curler John Shuster's start in the sport came with Dr. Pepper, popcorn, and a pool table.

How did Tokyo 2020 golf champion Xander Schauffele help influence an iconic shoe for the sport?

Meanwhile, fellow Olympic golfer Madelene Sagstrom takes comfort in last year's public revelation of abuse: "...makes it more beautiful for me to know it is actually helping".

​Tokyo 2020 Olympic tennis player Maria Sakkari announces a partnership with fashion house Dior.

Luger Tucker West looks to "be proud of my competition" as he heads to his third Winter Olympics.

​And luge teammate Chris Mazdzer reintroduces himself, courtesy of NBC Sports.

More luge: Saba Kumaritashvili is set to complete what his cousin Nodar aimed to do - race at a Winter Olympics - before an infamous training accident at Vancouver 2010.

Nimroy Turgott hopes to bring "reggae vibes" to Beijing as Team Jamaica returns to Olympic bobsledding in multiple events.

Team Great Britain's skeleton racers warn that they haven't yet had 'all guns blazing' this season as they look for Beijing 2022 success.

"Absurd": Maybe Milan Corina 2026 for Nordic combined skier Annika Malacinski as the IOC weighs inclusion of the women's event.

One secret to Michela Moioli's campaign to defend Olympic snowboarding gold? Video games...

Snowboarder Aaron Blunck's halfpipe crash last year gave him a new outlook: "He just looks like he's enjoying (snowboarding) more".

For the Win​: Five facts to get to know freestyle skier Alex Ferreira.

L'Officiel USA: Freestyle skier Eileen Gu is flying high.

A fun fact about freestyle skier Sami Kennedy-Sim? Beijing 2022 will be her third Games after a blood clot and stroke scare in 2013.

Tokyo 2020 Olympians Carissa Moore and John John Florence win the Triple Crown of Surfing, for the second year in a row.

All-around super Olympic athlete (Alpine skiing, road & track cycling) Georgia Simmerling opens up about struggles with bulimia throughout her sports career.

Team Great Britain: "How Dave Ryding conquered doubters and the world of slalom skiing."

Skier Richardson Viano is set to debut Haiti at a Winter Olympics with his Beijing 2022 qualification.

"It was one of my dreams and now all is becoming a reality." Kiana Kryeziu set to make history for Kosovo as an Olympic Alpine skier.

Competition at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics starts one week from today, and will span seven sports encompassing 15 disciplines across 19 days. Here are the leading questions - Covid-19 concerns aside - that I look forward to seeing answered in each as the Games proceed.

What are you hoping to see?

Alpine Skiing
How will 'newly focused' Mikaela Shiffrin perform across her anticipated multiple events? She's back competing after a Covid-19 delay.

On the men's side, only one of the four individual Pyeongchang 2018 champions return to the Olympics - Matthias Mayer, who also won a gold at Sochi 2014. Can he make it three straight? He's in the top four in both downhill and super-G World Cup standings so far.

Biathlon
Sturla Holm Laegrid's 2020/21 season marked him an early star to watch at Beijing 2022, but Tarjei Boe Johannes Boe, and Vetle Sjstaad Christiansen are the top Norwegians in the World Cup standings. Can Laegrid have a comeback?

According to biathlonworld.com, Elvira Oeberg is the "most exciting athlete of trimester 1 (of the World Cup)". Will she keep her winning momentum into Beijing?