Winter Olympics: What you need to know ahead of Beijing 2022
CNN
There are just weeks until the start of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, the second Games to be held in the middle of the pandemic after last year's Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Beijing will become the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Games following its Olympic debut in 2008, and last month, organizers said preparation was "very much on track" for the Games to be delivered as planned.
But it hasn't been straightforward. As with last year's Summer Olympics, a raft of Covid-19 countermeasures have been put in place ahead of the Games, which will again take place in a Covid-safe "bubble" system.
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