This will be the XXIV edition of the contest which, as usual, takes place every four years and which has an Argentine delegation whose standard-bearers are skiers Francesca Baruzzi (alpine skiing) and Franco Da Farra (cross country ski).
Among the spectators of the opening ceremony, boycotted by several Western countries with U.S to the head for denounce human rights violations in Chinathe presence of some twenty world leaders was announced, including the secretary general of the UN, Anthony Guterresand the Russian president, Vladimir Putinhis Argentine counterpart Alberto Fernandez and Ecuadorian William Lasso.
In a bilateral meeting with Xi before the opening ceremony, Vladimir Putin celebrated relationships “unprecedented” what do you have with China and its president and lambasted the West.
Putin Y Russia They are in the center of international attention. The kremlin is accused of West of wanting to invade Ukrainedue to the approximately 100,000 Russian military deployed for weeks on the border of its pro-Western neighbor.
In this tense context, the Ukrainian government asked its representatives in Beijing that they do not fraternize with the Russians, in Games that are announced to be full of controversy.
Athletes are confined in a sanitary bubble and subjected to controls PCR daily. What Beijing apply zero strategy covid, no contact is authorized with the population. The stands of the competition sites will be partially full, but only by “guests”, who must respect social distances.
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Demonstrations against these Games
thousands of miles from Beijingin Lausannehalf a thousand Tibetans demonstrated Thursday in front of the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to denounce the “Shame Games”the actions of Beijing in the Himalayan region and religious and cultural repression.
In Hong Konga pro-democracy activist was arrested for “incite subversion”just before an organized protest against the Olympic Games.
In The Angelsfifty demonstrators gathered in front of the consulate of China. Throughout the world, calls were launched to organize protests denouncing human rights violations in Xinjiang (northwest) against the Uyghurs, but so far these are minor demonstrations.
Another controversy is that of the environmental impact of these Games, which are held in a glacial but semi-arid climate, on artificially snow-covered slopes in ski resorts prepared for the occasion.
Most of them focus on sports, but there are some who live badly having to compete in Chinalike the British Gus Kenworthy2014 Olympic runner-up in slopestyle skiing.
“I don’t think that a country that has terrible stances on human rights should be authorized to host the Games”He said Kenworthy.
Source: Ambito
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