Beijing 2022 is well on track to host the Olympic Winter Games, which will begin with the Opening Ceremony on 4 February. All competition venues are complete, and a series of test events were held from October to December 2021 to test them further. Beijing 2022 is also making maximum use of existing venues, including venues used at Olympic Games Beijing 2008. Even before the Games have begun, Beijing 2022 has already made great progress in delivering their legacy. With record numbers of Chinese people engaging in winter sport during the past winter season, Beijing 2022 is well on its way to getting 300 million people in China engaged in winter sport.
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How China Co-Opted the Olympics
Olympics bigwigs dismissed human rights abuses behind closed doors IOC President Thomas Bach meets with CCP leader Xi Jinping Yuichiro Kakutani • May 15, 2021 5:00 am
When Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs, the 2022 Beijing Olympics chief, met with Chinese dissidents in a closed-door October meeting, he firmly rejected their plea to relocate the games out of China to protest human rights abuses. The world lives under very many political systems. We cannot go and say and endorse one or the other. That is not what we do, Salisachs told activists, according to meeting minutes obtained by the
Washington Free Beacon.