Beijing Olympics: Winter Games start amid Covid and boycotts
Sports,China,Beijing Olympics,Human Rights,Uighur Muslims,Wuhan Lab,Coronavirus
The most divided Olympic Games in decades gets under way in China on Friday as Beijing becomes the only city to host both the Summer and now the Winter Games. As well as tight Covid-19 controls, the Games are fraught with political tensions over allegations of human rights abuses and boycotts.
Most of the snow on the slopes where the Olympic events will take place is man-made.
But inside an indoor rink where the icy climate is maintained by massive freezers at the side of the dome, six-year-old ice skater Yiyi doesn't care how Beijing is making the Winter Games happen.
She just can't wait to see it. She wasn't even born the first time the Olympics came to town. Now she's inspired by it.
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