Olympics Curling kicks off Beijing Games ahead of Putin Xi main event

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BEIJING — Mixed doubles curling opened competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Wednesday as the shadow of war in Ukraine, and the impending arrival of Russian President Vladimir Putin, loomed over an event already transformed by the coronavirus pandemic. Curling teams from Sweden and Britain clashed inside Beijing’s “closed loop,” where the world’s […]

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