Beijing: Starting the Beijing Winter Olympics Friday will divert the attention of criticism of human rights, which was rejected by China, a spokesman for the organizing committee to Reuters at the night of the opening ceremony.
Some countries including the United States and the United Kingdom have announced diplomatic boycott from the game through Chinese rights records, including the treatment of most Muslim Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region, according to the United States genocide.
“What is called human rights issues is a lie made by people with hidden motives,” Zhao Weidong, a spokesman for the Beijing Games, told Reuters in an interview on Thursday when asked whether such criticism had damaged the game.
“I want to emphasize that the Olympics are a great spectacle for athletes and sports fans throughout the world.
From the current situation, many countries and athletes have expressed their support for the Beijing Winter Olympics,” he said.
“This opening ceremony tomorrow.
I believe that in an example where the Olympic flame is on, everything called this boycott will go out,” he added.
The opening ceremony of the February 4-20 Olympics will take place on Friday at the Nest Bird Stadium, the same place where the 2008 Beijing match began, making the Chinese Capital City first to hold a summer and winter game.
Because Covid-19, the Olympics are underway in “closed loops” that separate competitors and other personnel from the Chinese community, and the audience will be limited to small groups of selected participants.
Zhao expressed confidence in these steps, which included daily testing for everyone, after the organizer reported 55 new infections NL1N2UE05Q among game personnel for February 2, total daily to date.
Officials expect a decrease rate after all foreign participants arrived.
“I want to emphasize that all our methods for prevention and control of pandemics are basically effective,” Zhao said.
Zhao said the audience at the events, who had to undergo covid-19 monitoring before, during and after the match, was identified in the “wide selection process” and the audience would attend their own initiative.
On Tuesday, the International Olympic Committee said the organizers hoped for the stadium capacity of at least 30%.
“During the match last night, many spectators were only normal residents,” he said, referring to the Curling competition which began on Wednesday.
“I believe that after you see the opening ceremony, you will understand everything,” Zhao said.
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