On Monday in Athens, the flame will then perform the traditional relay, but essentially online, until the Olympic Games in February 2022.
Le Monde with AFP
The Olympic flame arrived Wednesday, October 20th in Beijing, which will host the Olympic Winter Games in February 2022, reported the state media. An official ceremony was organized in the Olympic Tower, a gigantic steel structure of more than 200 meters high which dominates the north of the Chinese capital, and where the flame will be exposed.
brought by tracks on tracks, it was greeted by a choir of children before being transferred to a cauldron by CAI Qi, the Chinese Communist Party leader (CPC) in Beijing. In addition to an “online relay”, the “traditional relay of the flame will take place from 2 to 4 February 2022” on competition sites with “about 1,200 relayors”, said Wednesday Zhang Jiandong, Executive Vice President of the Committee of ‘organization. It seems to imply that this three-day relay will be the only one organized in the country.
The flame was lit Monday in Athens and transmitted the next day to the organizers of the Beijing Olympics. The ignition ceremony in Greece was disturbed by activists requesting the IOC to postpone the event, accusing China to perpetrate a “genocide” against the hears and Tibetans.
The protesters tried to deploy a Tibetan flag and a banner “No Genocide Games” before being stopped by security. Human rights activists accuse the Chinese government of religious repression, torture, forced sterilizations and cultural offending through rehabilitation campaigns.
Calls to the boycott
After having first denied the existence of camps in the Xinjiang, China then justified them as vocational training centers aimed at reducing the attraction of Islamist extremism. Several calls to the boycott of athletes and governments have also been launched.
The President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach highlights the political neutrality of his organization and stated that it was up to governments to be up to their responsibilities.
Victim of the Boycott of the Moscow Games in 1980, the former Escrifyor stated that such measures were only penalizing the athletes, and insisted that the IOC approached the issue of rights “in the context of its skills “. Nearly 2,900 athletes from 85 countries will participate in the Beijing Olympic Games from 4 to 20 February 2022.