The opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will be "very different" from that of the 2008 Summer Games but will be "equally impressive," according to Yiannis Exarchos, CEO of Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS).
With two weeks and a few handfuls of hours to go before the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Games, the IOC continues to dip into the superlative box. On Wednesday 19 January, the Olympic body organised a press briefing in virtual mode from the Chinese capital, dedicated to media operations.
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(ATR) Media covering the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will soon learn how the coronavirus will impact reporting from Japan later this year.
What’s being called the Tokyo Playbook is set to be released Feb. 4, a detailed guide to the changes coming for press credentialed to the Games. It will be the first definitive guide to the protocols media will need to follow as a result of coronavirus precautions.
“I want to be clear, these will be very different Games, warns Lucia Montanarella, head of Olympic Games Media Operations. She spoke at the open of a virtual meeting organized by AIPS, the International Sports Press Association.