Politics crashed the Tokyo Olympics, offering a preview for Beijing's Winter Games, which are slated to start in just six months—and which are already shaping up to be the most contentious in years for the nominally apolitical sporting spectacle
were memorable for the silence of empty competition venues, the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics are shaping up to be dominated by high-decibel politics.
The opening ceremony for Beijing 2022 is scheduled to take place 180 days from now in the same Bird’s Nest stadium that the Chinese capital used for the 2008 Summer Games. The six-month gap marks the shortest ever turnaround between installments of the Olympics after Covid-19 forced Tokyo to delay a year.
Not much is known yet about how the Beijing organizers will deal with the pandemic-related issues that Tokyo labored with over the past few months. The Tokyo Games barred spectators and placed unprecedented restrictions on the movements of foreign visitors. With the Beijing Games fast approaching, Chinese organizers have said little about ticket sales, credentials for visitors or quarantine procedures.
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