Countdown to Beijing 2022 Olympic champion Ohno insists US must compete at Beijing 2022


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E-mail Xinhua, June 7, 2021 Adjust font size: 下载安装Flash播放器 WASHINGTON, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Apolo Ohno, a two-time Olympic short-track speed skating champion, argued that the United States should focus on the "purity of sport" by competing at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and resisting calls for a boycott. Certain members of the US Congress called for a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing on human rights grounds. But Ohno, who is the country's most decorated Winter Olympian with eight medals, insists the US Olympic team should be allowed to compete in the Chinese capital regardless of...