All the bad press in the Western and China-hating media is not stumbling the Beijing Winter Olympics. It has been counter-productive overall.
As the Western media spews more hate on the Beijing Olympics, Chinese people started to get more patriotic and got more interested in the Winter Olympics. The neutrals start to get more curious than usual and tuned into the games to see what all the hate is about. More stories are written on the games because of the propaganda war being waged on both sides. So this draws in more attention than usual.
If this Winter Olympics was held in Sweden for example, it won't get the bad press. But it'll be just your standard Olympics. So the Western media have only themselves to blame for hyping up the Beijing Winter Olympics. I think there won't be anymore winter Olympics after this that'll be as interesting to follow.
Nevertheless, this Winter Olympics has certainly awoken the Chinese people's appetite for winter sports. China is historically not a powerhouse in Winter Games. But Team China has already achieved its best ever medal count in any Winter Olympics, with their recent 6th gold medal. So things should get better for them from here on.