[Sport] watched The Olympic torch for the 2022 Winter Games arrives in China

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The Olympic flame arrived Wednesday in Beijing, which will host the Winter Games in February 2022, a day after protests by rights activists opposed to China when it was lit in Greece.

An official ceremony was held in the Olympic Tower, the gigantic steel building more than 200 meters high overlooking the north of the Chinese capital, where the flame will be placed.

A choir of children received the flame before it was transferred to the cauldron of Kai Zhi, the Secretary of the Communist Party of China in Beijing.

"The traditional torch relay will take place from the second to the fourth of February 2022" on match sites, with the participation of "about 1,200 torchbearers", in addition to the "online relay," Zhang Jiandong, executive vice president of the organizing committee, said on Wednesday.

He seems to be hinting that this three-day relay will be the only one in the country.

About 2,900 athletes from 85 countries will participate in the Games, which will be held from February 4 to 20. On this occasion, the Chinese capital will become the first city in the world to organize a Winter Games after hosting the Summer Games in 2008. As it happened then, calls were launched abroad to boycott the Olympics, this time in defense of the conditions of Tibetans, Uighurs and Hong Kong.

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On Monday, protesters disrupted the lighting of the flame in Greece for a short period. They tried to raise a Tibetan flag and a banner reading "No to Genocide" before the security forces stopped their movement. On Tuesday, political activists called on the International Olympic Committee to postpone the Olympics.

"It's sports money laundering," said Zumritai Arkin, head of the World Uyghur Congress, an exiled Uyghur organization that opposes Beijing, stressing that "there is no legitimate reason to host the Games during the genocide."

The Uyghurs are the largest ethnic group in Xinjiang (northwest China). The region has long witnessed attacks attributed to separatists or Uyghur Islamists. In response, the authorities imposed tight security controls in the area.

This course will be organized in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The difference will be significant from the almost empty stadiums in Tokyo, where the matches will be played in the presence of the public, but no tickets will be sold except to people who live in China.

The Asian country has largely limited the arrival of foreigners since last year in order to avoid the re-emergence of the epidemic on its soil, as it has managed to eliminate “Covid” since the spring of 2020, except for some sporadic foci. Athletes participating in the Beijing Olympics will have one of two options, either they have received a full vaccine or are subject to a 21-day quarantine upon arrival.