Winter Olympics: Beijing 2022 organisers say they “face great pressure” because of Covid-19


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Beijing 2022 will be the first Winter Games to be held in China The organisers of the Winter Olympics in Beijing say they "face great pressure" because of Covid-19. The Winter Olympics take place in February and the Paralympics in March, with China holding a series of test events from Friday in preparation. Anyone attending the Winter Olympics and Paralympics who is not fully vaccinated will have to serve a 21-day quarantine on arrival in Beijing. Others will enter a "closed-loop management system" when they arrive. "We expect that over 2,000 overseas athletes, team officials, international technical officials, and timing...