Tickets For Beijing Winter Olympics Events To Only Be Offered To ‘Spectators From Selected Groups’ Due To COVID-19
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will mirror the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, with the roar of thousands of fans noticeably absent.
On Monday, the organizing committee announced that the original plan to offer event tickets to the general public has been scrapped, with tickets now being offered to “selected groups.”
“Given the difficult and complicated work of controlling the epidemic, and to protect the health and safety of those involved with the Games, the original plan of offering tickets to the general public has been altered toward spectators from selected groups,” the statement said.
Beijing already announced that international fans will not be allowed to attend the Games, and announced in October that athletes will be in a “closed loop,” isolated from the rest of society.
“All participants of the Games and our Chinese staff and volunteers will implement the same policy,” Beijing 2022 organizing committee official Zhang Jiandong said. “They will be strictly separated from the external society.” – READ MORE
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