There are 280 days to go until Beijing hosts the Olympic Games next February. And while the focus of the world - at least the part of the world that focuses on the Olympics - is squarely on the summer games in Tokyo, Beijing is making news of its own.

Taking us through this and other news is China sports insider Mark Dreyer from chinasportsinsider.com.

What the western media gets wrong about China (4:40); Rule 50 - the rule banning protests at the Olympics - and why *some* athletes may be incentivized to break it (9:00); the (slim) possibility of an athletes' boycott of the Beijing games (11:30); Olympic venues and access by foreign athletes (17:26); heptathlete Zheng Ninali's move to China (21:54); China's young and inexperienced men's hockey team is in the same round robin pool as the United States and Canada. What could possibly go wrong? (27:00).

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