Eligible to go, you have to be in beijing for 14 days before the event, fully vaccinated and boosted and taking four covid tests, two before and two after the event. then on the day, it was multiple security checks, a lot of walking and waiting inside of a security bubble before you even read reached the stadium. then seated outdoors for four h hours in 15 degrees farenheit. the china was direced by one of the movie actors, a lot of pageantry and fireworks coming culture with high-tech presentations. but one thing that really struck me as forward government, lashing out for the u.s. for politicizing the games, by launching that diplomatic boycott, they seem to be sending a lot of very political messages with their state tv announcers calling the self-governed taiwan china taipei implying beijing s sovereignty over the island.