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Beijing Olympics. Our redesigned local news and weather app is live! Download it for iOS or Android — and sign up for alerts. NBC Sports. Here are five athletes to keep an eye on at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. Athletes and other Games-related personnel will be enveloped in a "closed loop" including three clusters of venues - one in downtown Beijing, one in the outskirts near the Great Wall, and one to the northwest of the city, in Hebei province.
Unlike the Tokyo Games, which were delayed by a year and stalked by speculation they would be cancelled, there has been little doubt the Beijing Winter Olympics will take place - no matter what - as an increasingly assertive China seizes the opportunity to demonstrate soft power. The Beijing and Wuhan marathons were recently postponed, with curbs on travel into the capital announced due to dozens of daily new cases.
Such restrictions have contributed to a lack of the anticipatory buzz that marked the Beijing Summer Olympics - an extravaganza widely seen as China's global coming-out party. On Wednesday, China reported 50 new locally-transmitted cases for the previous day - the most since Sept 16 but still tiny by global standards. Since then, China has risen to superpower status, locked in antagonistic competition with the United States and under the increasingly authoritarian leadership of President Xi Jinping, with tightened censorship and suppression of dissent.
During the torch-lighting ceremony in Athens earlier this month, rights activists unfurled a banner reading "No Genocide Games" and waved a Tibetan flag, although the ceremony itself was not interrupted, as had been the case for the Beijing Summer Games. The competition to host the Games is one featuring comprehensive national strength, economic potential, technological power and cultural charm.
It is a competition for national image and status. Winning the host right means winning the respect, trust and favor of the international community. Today, Beijing has won such trust. It is a victory for Beijing.
It is a victory for China, and it is a victory for the Olympic spirit. China has a population of 1. Beijing has exciting plans for the Games; moreover, its citizens have great enthusiasm for hosting the event. The highest public support rate among the five candidate cities can be seen on the scrolls of signatures of Chinese people worldwide that seem to stretch from the Great Wall to Lausanne, and to Athens. The world has felt Beijing's strength and been moved by its sincerity. As mankind enters the new century, there is a consensus among all the people: It is time for Beijing to host the Olympic Games.
It is time for the Olympic torch to light the Great Wall. It is time for nearly 1. Tonight is also a night of celebration for the Olympic cause. Allowing the Olympic torch to light China is the best way to promote the globalization of the Olympic Games. An Olympic Games in the world's fastest-growing economy will create tremendous business opportunities, and will offer a rare chance for the IOC to strengthen its financial resources and to boost the world economy.
And of course, no one can deny that when people from all parts of the world gather in Beijing, the interchange between the Chinese and Western cultures will be unprecedented in the history of human civilization.
When the Olympics embraces Beijing, both are winners. China will prove to the world the decision by the IOC at the beginning of the century is wise. We believe Beijing can give the world the best Olympic Games in history. The editorial thanks the trust of the International Olympic Committee IOC and the support of the overseas Chinese and the international society.
It recalls that late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping had suggested China bid for the Olympic Games as early as in , and that even the failure in did not damp the Chinese people's enthusiasm towards the Olympic Games. Today's China is enjoying unprecedented political stability, economic prosperity and ethnic harmony, while the city of Beijing is witnessing rapid development, with its environment improving and more and more sports facilities in place, the editorial says, adding that this has laid a solid foundation for a successful Olympic Games in Beijing.
The editorial notes that the holding of the Olympic Games in the world's most populous country will greatly help promote the Olympic spirit and exchanges between the Chinese and Western cultures. China's fast-growing economy will also assure that an Olympic Games in Beijing will bring tremendous opportunities for businesses worldwide and greatly promote the development of world trade, says the editorial. It points out that hosting the Olympic Games will offer an important opportunity for China in the beginning of the new century, as it will greatly inspire the patriotism of the Chinese people and promote the rapid development of China's reform and opening-up and socialist modernization drive.
The editorial pledges that China will keep its promises in its bid and spare no efforts in its preparations to present the world with the best Olympic Games ever in history. The attraction and far-reaching significance of staging the Games in a country which has the world's largest population, as well as huge economic potential, won the day. To most IOC members, Beijing's case for the Games is simple: China is home to a one-fifth of the world's population but never has hosted the Olympics.
It is a largely untapped market for the products of corporate sponsors. And it is also an international sports giant, finishing third in medals at last year's Sydney Games. Beijing had gained an clear lead over its close rivals in the IOC's May 15 evaluation report, and it never relinquished it.
The report rated Beijing, Toronto and Paris offering "excellent bids" but pointed out a Beijing Games would "leave a unique legacy to China and to sport. Canadian IOC member Dick Pound, an IOC presidency candidate who had kept himself from directly praising the Toronto bid, said after Friday's ballot that it was time for the Olympic movement to reach some of its own goals -- to "put sport at the service of mankind everywhere and maybe bring about some change.
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