#Beijing2022 |China forms the greatest Olympic winter team in its history with 176 athletes

The same day that the three Olympic villas officially opened their doors to the athletes for the Beijing Winter Games, China officially established the greatest winter Olympic team in its history.

The China team consists of 387 members, of which 176 are athletes.Among the athletes, 87 are women.There are also 20 athletes from nine minority ethnic groups, including Tibetan, Uygur and Hui.The youngest member of the delegation is only 17 years old.The athletes promised to achieve the best results in the country's Olympic history, demonstrating their strength, perseverance and modesty.

However, just eight days after the official inauguration of the great sporting event, the defamation of some western countries and media on the event has also reached a new point.Some western countries, with the United States at the head, continue to throw mud to China and Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

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The observers pointed out that those dedicated to slandering the winter games only manage to make a fool of having violated the rights of the participating athletes and face the international community.They also said that exaggeration and inventions of foreign media about the event are a lack of respect for China's arduous efforts to organize the games.

Original article in English with Global Times

The Chinese team promised that it would gain “ethical, moral and clean gold medals”, and that it would strive to achieve the best performance in the country's Olympic history, demonstrate its good spirit, avoid doping scandals and comply with the rules ofclosed circuit management.

The same day that the team met, three Olympic villas - one in Beijing itself, another in the suburban district of northern Beijing, Yanqing, and another in the adjacent Zhangjiakou - officially opened their doors to athletes from around the worldFor the 2022 Beijing Winter Games.

The Villa of Beijing will house mainly the athletes who compete in sports such as skating, while the Villa de Yanqing will go to sliding sports and alpine ski athletes.The Villa of the Zhangjiakou competition zone will host skiers, snowboarders and ski jumpers.

The three Olympic villas have very different characteristics.The Villa of Beijing embodies the traditional Chinese features, showing about 300 elements of the Intangible Cultural Heritage;While the Villa de Yanqian provides a perfect combination of Chinese and international styles, where modern rooms are built inside a Chinese courtyard.Zhangjiakou is a technological town, where the rooms are equipped with intelligent electronic locks, infrared induction and other functions.Memory foam bedding can provide the best support to the occupants, whether they sleep and are sitting.

Meanwhile, as more athletes arrive, Olympic volunteers are responsible for guiding them to their rooms.A volunteer from the Villa, surnamed Li, told the Global Times that those who have not undergone nucleic acid tests cannot leave their accommodation.

#Beijing2022 | China forma el mayor equipo olímpico de invierno de su historia con 176 atletas

The three villages have also adopted strict prevention measures of COVID-19.For example, the Yanqing village has formed special logistics teams that are responsible for transporting the belongings of athletes and disinfecting them in accordance with the standards.

It was planned to celebrate an inauguration ceremony of the town, but was subsequently canceled due to the concern for the COVID-19, according to Qu Songming, director of the area of the Plaza de la Olympic Village of Beijing, to the Global Times.

The corresponding cities are also preparing for the event.China's weather administration officials said Thursday that it will enter “special work state” for winter Olympic Games from Thursday to February 21.Hebei's weather administration said he will send service personnel 24 hours a day, will closely monitor the weather and give technological support to the event.

Liu Pengfei, spokesman for the Ministry of Transportation of China, declared Thursday at a press conference that the Ministry will strictly stick to the Covid-19 prevention measures in all procedures of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022.

When commenting on the official inauguration of the Olympic villas, Zhao Lijian, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that from 2008 to 2022, the enthusiasm of the Chinese capital embodied in the slogan "Beijing welcomes you" has never changed.We believe that, like the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, winter will also shine around the world, Zhao said.

Continuous slander

During a telephone call between the State Minister and Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, and the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, he said that the United States will encourage their athletes to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

However, one day before the telephone call, the United States Department of State studied the possibility that its embassies and consulates authorize the departure of its employees in China, claiming “the epidemic situation of China”, a measure that, according toExperts only expose Washington's true intention to sabotage the winter Olympic Games and their incoherent politics towards China.

Previously, Washington had set up a “defamation campaign” against Beijing Winter Olympic Games, saying that it would not send diplomatic or official representatives to the event.However, in mid -January it was discovered that the country was looking for visa requests for 46 officials for the event, expanding an earlier list of 18.

Li Haidong, a professor at the Institute of International Relations of the University of Foreign Affairs of China, declared on Thursday to the Global Times that the double turn of the United States is eroding its credibility to the world, and is slapped to its allies, such as Australia and Australia andJapan, who followed Washington closely and made a similar decision.

He even reflected Washington's chaotic mood towards China, LI said, and added that if the United States cannot be consistent in the Olympic Games, how can you expect a clear and unified policy about China to form?

During the phone call with Blinken, Wang urged the US to stop interfering with Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

While Beijing prepares for games, Western media, such as BBC, CNN and the Wall Street Journal, have also intensified their discredit campaigns.The media pointed to strict COVID-19 prevention policies for the event, claiming that these policies caused anxiety to athletes, and related games to old rumors of “human rights abuse” in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, and claimed that China would take the opportunity to monitor the participants' phones.

Xu Guixiang, spokesman for the Regional Government of the Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, in northwestern China, said at a conference on Thursday that the attempt of the western countries of throwing a cable to the winter Olympic Games is a politicization of the sport, aAttempt to sabotage the rights of athletes and blasphemy against the Olympic Charter.

Those who complain about the management of the closed circuit have to realize that these measures were agreed within the framework of the negotiations between the International Olympic Committee, the World Association of International Sports Federations and the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games andWinter Paralympics of 2022. In addition, these measures are recognized and accepted by all delegates, the Global Times Ding Bocheng, who participated in the organization of the summer games of 2008 and is a member of the team of the Olympic Games andWinter Paralympics of 2022 in Beijing.

The athletes were also aware of these policies before coming to China, so it is inappropriate to complain about them now, Ding said.

The Guardian newspaper also published on Monday a report in which it was stated that the concern for a mandatory health application for athletes is increasing, after a new report revealed that the application contains security failures and a list of words "politically sensitive ”that have been marked for censorship.

Ding said that, according to his understanding, if the athletes leave the closed area, the relevant authorities will be informed through their signals, but no one is watching their daily lives or interferes in their privacy.

A spokesman for the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2022 said on January 18 that when the athletes use this application for the first time, the application will request the user's authorization, and added that the application has also been examinedFor Google, Apple and Samsung's application platforms.All personal information will be encrypted to guarantee privacy.

According to Ding, it is not easy for the Chinese Government to organize an event of such magnitude, which requires great contribution and sacrifices by the staff.He expects foreign guests and media to appreciate this hard work, and adds that jumping on trivialities or inventing rumors is not fair for the organizers.

With Innovation of Global Times

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