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The Olympic Games, usually synonymous with celebration, are this year in Beijing an event clouded by the Covid-19. It is impossible for the Chinese to attend the competition. Beijing 22 has nothing to do with the memory left by the 2008 Summer Games in the Chinese capital.
On the first day of the Winter Olympics, Saturday February 5, we do not really feel the Olympic fever in the Chinese capital. Beijing Games without Pekingese. Under the threat of Covid-19no one is authorized around the Olympic facilities, residents are kept away from competitions, because everything happens in the sanitary bubble implemented by the authorities.
In the city, in this holiday period chineseit’s a day like any other with, in addition, indifference or frustration not to take part in the celebration. Beijing can boast of being the only city in the world to have organized the Summer Games in 2008 and the Winter Games fourteen years later, but this time there was no “Olympic effect”. However, given the queue to enter the official Olympic souvenir shop, not all Beijingers are uninterested in the Games.
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