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OlymPicks, we highlight news, gossip, and developments regarding the buildup to Beijing's 2022 Winter Olympics.
It’s not yet clear whether the National Hockey League – the professional ice hockey league that includes both Canadian and American teams – will allow its players to compete in the Beijing Olympic Games, but that hasn’t stopped speculation from the experts at thehockeywriters.com.
According to their analysis, at least a few of the Vancouver Canucks are shoe-ins for 2022, but none of them will play for Canada. Elias Petterson (pictured above), for example, would play for team Sweden, while Brock Boeser, Quinn Hughes, and J.T. Miller would all play for the US. Only Bo Horvat is likely to shoot pucks for the pride of the great maple leaf.
Canada took home the gold at every Olympics from 2002 to 2014, but when the NHL denied its players the option to play in the 2018 games, the United States was able to take first place for the first time in 20 years.
As we have previously reported, the city is going to be a bona fide playground for new technologies in the lead up to Beijing 2022. We've already seen the ice-cooling system that takes carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as well as China’s official cryptocurrency, but now there's a new shiny toy rolling onto the scene: self-driving cars, which are expected to chauffeur Olympians around the city.
These self-driving cars will be hauling around Olympians in just a couple of years
No cost is being spared for the development of the vehicles – over RMB 49 million is slated for testing alone – but of course, the technology's use will continue to expand well beyond 2022.
Despite a long hold-out, Japan was not able to stop the delay of its Tokyo Olympic Games. It's good news for Beijing though, because Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, told Xinhua that Tokyo’s bane could be Beijing’s boon.
That's because Bach predicts back-to-back Olympic years could result in sustained hype for the Beijing Games, as the world will still be gripped by Olympic fever.
READ: OlymPicks: Qualifiers Postponed, Beijing's "Ice Jar" Nearly Complete
Images: Vancourier, Xinhua News
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