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Despite the continuing COVID chaos and the mounting protests about China’s human rights record, the 2022 Beijing Olympics are proceeding on schedule, just six months after the delayed Tokyo games — and we have your guide to the Jewish athletes who are on their way. In Tokyo, dozens of Jewish athletes competed, and many clinched medals. The Winter Olympics are typically a smaller affair, with fewer sports and fewer countries participating. Nevertheless, we’re excited to cheer on these Jewish athletes from the United States, Israel and Canada. The Beijing games begin Feb. 4 and run through Feb. 20, and the Paralympics will be held March 4 through March 13.
Jason Brown, figure skating, US The most well-known Jewish athlete competing in Beijing is 27-year-old figure skater Jason Brown. He competed in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, winning bronze in the team event with team USA, but narrowly missed competing in 2018 in Pyeongchang (he went as the team’s first alternate). But Brown is back, and qualified after skating to the theme from “Schindler’s List” at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships this month. “My background, obviously, is Jewish, and the story is so touching,” he said about his decision to skate to the Holocaust movie’s theme. “I grew up learning about the Holocaust and about Now available on three popular
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A year ago, 19-year-old New Jersey native Hailey Kops was studying in a Jerusalem seminary on her gap year before heading to nursing school, thinking her competitive skating days were over. Israel’s team gave her a call and an opportunity in June, and just over six months later, she’s heading to Beijing. She teamed up with Evgeni Krasnopolski, a 33-year-old Olympic veteran who was born in the Soviet Union and moved to Israel when he was three years old. He will be Israel’s flag-bearer at the opening ceremony on Feb. 4. This is the first Olympics for Kops, who is Modern Orthodox — an extreme rarity in Olympic competition — but skates on Shabbat. “From a young age, I integrated the two. It is definitely normal for me,” she said. DUETTE HONEYCOMB SHADES “When there’sona three will, popular there’s a way,” she WITH DUOLITE Now available told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Hunter Douglas window fashions, the Duolite® design option seamlessly combinesspeed two shades Emery Lehman, skating, US inEmery one. It provides softly diffused Lehman’s first love was hockey, Rebates starting at Rebates starting at light when you want it, six andyears room-old, growwhich he picked up at REBATES STARTING AT *up in the darkening privacy need it. ing Oakwhen Parkyou Chicago suburb. A
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few years later, his Jewish mom — who as of 2018 was a development executive for the American Friends of the Hebrew University of Israel — convinced him to give speed skating a try, and he excelled. (He hasn’t given up hockey, either — in college at Marquette University, he played defense for their club hockey team.) At age 13, he became a national champion, and at 17, he qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics. He competes in the 5,000 and 10,000 meter races. At the 2018 Olympics, he also competed in the Team Pursuit race. As he wrote on Instagram after qualifying for Beijing, “About time I’m one of the old guys on the team.” He’s only 25.
Taylor Gold, snowboarding, US Taylor Gold is going for gold at the Beijing Winter Olympics. How many times do we think he has heard that joke? For Gold, 28, this is his second Olympics — he competed in Sochi, and got injured during the 2017-2018 season, which forced him to miss Pyeongchang. At the 2018 Games, his younger sister Arielle Gold — also a snowboarder — won bronze in the women’s halfpipe event. Arielle retired and won’t be competing this Olympics cycle.
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