The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics launched a series of test events on Thursday as China plows on with preparations despite calls for a boycott over its treatment of the Uyghur minority.
There are also doubts about how the Games in February next year will deal with the coronavirus — a top Beijing 2022 official recently admitted that the pandemic makes it “a big challenge to host a smooth Winter Olympics.”
Organisers plan to run 10 days of testing at five locations in Olympic and Paralympic sports including ice hockey, speed skating, figure skating and curling. All athletes are Chinese because of virus-related travel curbs.
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