Sjoerd den Daas, a correspondent for NOS Journaal, was covering the opening of games when what the International Olympic Committee is calling an isolated incident happened on air.
Olympic chiefs have denied they were responsible for allowing Russian President Vladimir Putin to flounce around the Olympic opening ceremony without a mask.
11,000 foreign guests and 20,000 local volunteers will spend the next three weeks inside a strict Covid closed loop system as Beijing hosts the Winter Olympics in the midst of a pandemic.
China chose Uyghur athlete Dinigeer Yilamujiang (right) to light the Olympic flame at the Winter Games Opening Ceremony in a bid to deflect claims of genocide of the Muslim minority.
NBC s Savannah Guthrie is being criticized for falling for Chinese propaganda after she praised President Xi Jinping s decision to have an Uyghur co-lighting the Olympic flame.