Only “selected” spectators will be permitted to the 2022 Winter Games. Earlier, Beijing had already announced that tickets will not be sold to spectators from outside China’s mainland.
Keeping in mind the requirements of COVID-19 countermeasures, the tickets will be sold exclusively to spectators residing in China.
The announcement follows the release of pandemic prevention and control policy principles for the 2022 Olympics as well as the Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing.
The Olympic Winter Games will take place between February 4-20, 2022, and the Paralympic Winter Games will be held from March 4-13, 2022.
Beijing Olympic organizing committee to ensure strict COVID 19 control measures:
The athletes and officials have already started to land in Beijing with less than a month left for the Winter Games. They are immediately stepping into a tightly controlled COVID 19 bio-bubble separating them from the rest of the population.
Given the current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, Beijing Olympic organizing committee has decided to assure the safety of all athletes, officials, staff and spectators.
The Beijing Olympic organizing committee said in a statement:
The committee added:
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