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Skin in the Games: Beijing’s nervy Olympics

The Intelligence from The Economist

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The Security Checks at the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games

David renny is our baging bureau chief at the winter olympic games. He successfully battled with monumental coved restrictions without even crossing into the so called closed loop of athletes, support staff and journalists. We've been in various security checks and cove tests for several hours already, and i think that reflects the extraordinary high stakes. This is an olympics taking place in the middle of a pandemic in a country which has decided to try and crush cobid completely. In the midst of that pandemic, they have admitted about 30 thousand foreigners into china for the olympics.

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