Introduction
Introduction to the Special Issue: Mediating the East Asian Era of the Olympic Games (2018–2022)
Koji Kobayashi, John Horne, Younghan Cho, and Jung Woo Lee
Framing the Games: US Media Coverage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
Jules Boykoff
Are They Really Chinese? Examining Chinese Audiences’ Emotions and Perceptions Toward Naturalized Athletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Bo Li, Olan K. M. Scott, Liang Zhao, and Su Jin
The “Descendant of Dragon” or an “American Dreamer”? The Flow of Identity in the Media Discourse of Eileen Gu Between China and the US
Liwen Zhang and Lin Shi
Opportunities and Challenges for Critical Reporting at the Olympics: Journalists’ Perspectives From Tokyo 2020
Cerianne Robertson
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Situational Crisis Communication and the COVID-19 Pandemic Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Donna Wong and Yue Meng-Lewis
Covering the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as the Recovery Olympics After Fukushima
Yasuhito Abe
The Olympic Games and Judo Diplomacy: An Exploratory Discussion on Country Image in Tokyo 2020
Yoav Dubinsky
War and Peace, Freeze and Thaw: Regional Narratives of North Korea and the 2018 Winter Olympics
Peter English and Richard Murray
